Spooky Oddities at the State Capitol
by Ashley Athey In honor of All Hallows’ Eve, we’re reposting our article on the spooky tales and apparitions that haunt the gold dome. Have you encountered one of these […]
October 2019
Parsing Powers: Legislative Review of State Department Rules
by Julie Pelegrin Each year, executive branch agencies in Colorado adopt between 400 and 500 sets of rules creating many thousands of pages of rules and accompanying materials. Specifically, in […]
Legislative Review of Administrative Rules: A History of Oversight – Part 2
by Thomas Morris In our previous article about the history of rule review, we looked at the process from its pre-legislative oversight era to 1976, when the General Assembly required […]
Statutory Construction: Severing Statutes and Resolving Conflicts
Editor’s Note: This is the final article in a series of seven articles on statutory construction that LegiSource is reposting during the 2019 legislative interim. This article was originally posted […]
Legislative Review of Administrative Rules: A History of Oversight – Part 1
by Thomas Morris Colorado’s constitution vests all legislative authority in the General Assembly[1]. It also requires a separation of powers between the “three distinct departments,—the legislative, executive and judicial” by […]