Tag: Lisa Cutter
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Colorado Senate approves rewritten construction defects bill, which faces uncertain future
Democrats battle over two different bills
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Statewide recycling program opens applications for advisory board
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The Producer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling is now accepting applications for the Producer Responsibility Advisory Board. That board will help shape how the new law is implemented. Rep. Lisa Cutter, D-Littleton, sponsored the bill for this program, House Bill 1355 which passed on June 3. This bill is intended to increase the state’s recycling…
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GOP groups outspending Democratic allies in Colorado Senate races
The latest campaign finance reports show the “soft money” group dedicated to supporting Republicans running in Colorado Senate races is outspending its Democratic counterpart by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The Senate Majority Fund’s independent expenditure committee, which backs Senate Republican candidates, and All Together Colorado, the Democrats’ soft side IEC, collectively spent about $6 million on…
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Consider pets in evacuation plans, animal rights group urges lawmakers
A fire evacuation plan should include pets. That’s the message policymakers reviewing potential wildfire legislation heard on Wednesday from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Saving pets became a major issue during the Marshall fire, which struck on New Year’s Eve last year and tore through more than 1,000 homes and businesses.…
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New legal opinion casts doubts on recycling bill
A legal opinion from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck casts doubts about the legality of a measure that intends to make a long list of industries pay for a new state recycling program. Should House Bill 1355 be signed into law, that opinion could lay the groundwork for a court challenge. The Producer Responsibility Act, as HB 1355…
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Journalism: the vaccine against disinformation | Vince Bzdek
Does Colorado truly believe in freedom of the press? I’m actually starting to wonder. I mean believe, believe, the way our founders believed that press freedom is to human freedom like air is to breathing. Alas, a panel of Colorado lawmakers with good intentions recently watered down a “Supporting Local Media” bill meant to help…
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Bill to mandate industry-paid recycling poised to surface in Colorado House
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A proposal that would require a shift in the financial responsibility for recycling from consumers to manufacturers is generating an uproar among a diverse coalition of industries, ranging from cannabis to newspapers, big box stores to small businesses. The bill, known as the Extended Producer…
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Bill aims to slash Colorado business fees
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Democratic legislators, with backing from the governor and secretary of state, aim to reduce the amount of fees new businesses pay when forming. Dubbed the “Colorado Business Fee Relief Act,” House Bill 1001 would…
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Dominoes: State Rep. Lisa Cutter declares she’s in for Senate District 20
The announcement Monday by U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Arvada, that he won’t run for a ninth term in Congress has started a round of dominoes in Jefferson County. The latest, less than 24 hours later, is state Rep. Lisa Cutter, D-Littleton, who told Colorado Politics she’s running for Senate District 20. Cutter made the move…