The “D” in December Stands for Deadlines
by Patti Dahlberg For most people, December means holidays, lots of food, and maybe a little snow here and there. For Colorado state legislators, the “D” in December marks the […]
November 2011
What are the non-partisan legislative service agencies?
There are four non-partisan legislative service agencies: The Office of Legislative Legal Services The Office of Legislative Legal Services (OLLS) is the non-partisan, in-house counsel for the Colorado General Assembly. […]
So…You’ve Just Been CORA’d. Now What Do You Do?
by Chuck Brackney and Bart Miller You may first encounter the Colorado Open Records Act, or CORA (section 24-72-200.1, et seq., C.R.S.), as an unfamiliar e-mail in your inbox. The […]
What is the difference between the session laws and the statutes?
In short: The session laws reproduce each individual bill, as it passed, during a particular session. The statutes give you the Colorado Revised Statutes — the permanent, statutory law of […]
What the Sixty-eighth General Assembly Did on its Summer Vacation: Interim Committees Ready to Introduce Bills
Chuck Brackney, Jason Gelender, Tom Morris, John Kilgour, Richard Sweetman, Brita Darling, and Julie Pelegrin contributed to this article After interim committees were suspended during the 2010 interim for budget […]