2024 Legislative Session

2024 Property Tax Reform: The Choices Before Colorado Voters 0
- FISCAL
- July 26, 2024
Executive Summary Coloradans have several options to try to address rising property taxes in 2024. The state legislature passed SB24-233 with bipartisan support at the end of the 2024 legislative session. Voters could choose to keep SB24-233 or eschew the bill for either or both Initiatives 50 and 108. Despite being a better alternative
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How New 2024 Tax Expenditures Undermine TABOR 0
- FISCAL, Publications
- July 24, 2024
Governor Jared Polis has been a consistent advocate for eliminating the state income tax, or at least “buying it down” through the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) surplus. This year, Polis claimed that legislation passed in 2024 did “deliver on that promise” to reduce the income tax rate, but Independence Institute’s research finds that legislation
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Colorado Lawmakers Reignite the State’s ‘Oil and Gas Wars’0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Governing Bodies / Agencies
- March 14, 2024
Upon signing legislation to usher in a new regulatory paradigm for the industry, Governor Jared Polis famously declared an end to Colorado’s oil and gas wars in 2019. The state’s saber-rattling legislature has other ideas in mind for 2024. Emboldened by historic majorities in the legislature, Colorado Democrats have introduced Senate Bill 159, a measure to
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Energy & Environmental Policy Center’s Testimony on Bill to Classify Nuclear as ‘Clean Energy’0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Governing Bodies / Agencies
- January 25, 2024
On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Independence Institute’s Energy and Environmental Policy Analyst Jake Fogleman testified on SB24-039 in the Colorado Senate Transportation & Energy Committee. The bill would have amended the state’s statutory definitions of “clean energy” and “clean energy resources” to include nuclear energy. The committee ultimately voted not to pass the bill at
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Colorado Lawmakers to Consider Pro-Nuclear Bill 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Governing Bodies / Agencies
- January 22, 2024
Colorado lawmakers are set to consider their first nuclear energy bill of the 2024 legislative session later this week. SB24-039, dubbed “Nuclear Energy as a Clean Energy Resource,” is scheduled to go before the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee for first reading on Wednesday. The bill seeks to level the playing field for carbon-free energy
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