Tag: Senate Bill
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Colorado advances eating disorder prevention, intervention bills: ‘It’s time we take a stand’
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In Colorado and nationwide, around one in 10 people will be diagnosed with an eating disorder in their lifetime. State lawmakers are trying to address that with a new pair of bills. The Senate Health and Human Services Committee advanced Senate Bill 14 and Senate Bill 176 on Thursday. If signed into law, SB 14 would create a statewide…
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Colorado Democrats pass trio of abortion rights bills in Senate, sending them to House
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After more than 11 hours of debate on the Senate floor, three bills seeking to bolster abortion rights in Colorado cleared the chamber on Wednesday, advancing to the House for consideration. The bills would shield abortion patients and providers from interstate investigations, expand insurance coverage for abortion care, and prohibit what supporters call “deceptive” advertising…
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Senate OKs banning speculative ticketing, other ‘deceptive’ ticket sale practices in Colorado
Buying tickets for events could soon look very different in Colorado thanks to legislation advanced by the state Senate on Thursday. If passed into law, Senate Bill 60 would prohibit many common practices in the ticket selling industry, classifying them as “deceptive trade practices.” This would include banning “speculative ticketing,” in which companies resell tickets they do not…
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Federal debt relief access for Colorado adjunct professors passes
Thousands of adjuncts in Colorado could become eligible for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program under a measure lawmakers approved.
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Colorado bill would cap medical debt interest, implement other consumer protections
Cindy Powers underwent emergency surgery to fix a life-threatening abdominal obstruction in 2004. Over the next five years, she received 18 additional surgeries to address complications, infections and hernias, before her condition was finally fixed in 2009. But while her medical nightmare had come to an end, the financial nightmare was just beginning. Even with…
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Colorado lawmakers want to end speculative ticketing, other ‘deceptive’ ticket sale practices
When Madonna announced her 40th anniversary world tour last month, ticket prices on numerous reselling websites quickly climbed into the thousands of dollars — though the original tickets had not yet gone on sale. This is a common practice in the event ticket industry known as “speculative ticketing,” in which companies resell tickets they do…
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Colorado Senate unanimously OKs reducing license requirements for school therapists
In 23 years of teaching, Stephanie Smith has attended 20 funerals of students. Smith said a few of the students died by an accidental overdose or car crash, but the vast majority died from the same thing: suicide. This year alone, Smith said three students have committed suicide at Boulder High School where she teaches,…
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Lawmakers seek to give child victims, witnesses of crimes anonymity in public records
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Eight months ago, 17-year-old Riley Whitelaw was murdered in the break room of the Colorado Springs Walgreens, where she worked. The horrific details of the crime, allegedly committed by an adult co-worker who Riley had previously complained against, quickly consumed state and national news. In…
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Colorado advances proposal to qualify adjunct professors for federal loan relief
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Adjunct professor Andrea Troncoso has over $130,000 in student debt, and, despite faithfully making payments for over a decade, the balance is only going up. Though Troncoso works more than full-time hours at the Community College of Denver and Metropolitan State University, she is not considered a full-time professor because adjuncts are contract workers only…
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Bill advances to ban Colorado employers from asking for age in job applications
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Nearly 80% of older workers say they have seen or experienced age discrimination in the workplace and around 40% of hiring managers admit to reviewing resumes with age bias. In Colorado, Democratic lawmakers are trying to change that with Senate Bill 58. If approved by the state legislature, the bill would ban employers from asking…