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Democrats at the Capitol also pushed back the start date of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law, shored up subsidies on health insurance and tweaked a pair of measures on the November ballot.

Two bills passed in Colorado's special session aim to safeguard safety-net programs. One boosts state funding for SNAP food assistance, the other guarantees Medicaid coverage at Planned Parenthood clinics.

Chief among lawmakers’ tasks is plugging a roughly $750 million hole in the state budget caused by the Republican federal tax and spending bill. But there’s plenty more on the docket.

State grants for transportation, infrastructure, energy projects and more will come with new housing policy requirements, starting this fall.

For starters, workers at the facility, managed by the private company GEO, declined to tell the representatives how many detainees were inside.

To close the funding gap, the state also enters a hiring freeze.

Dozens of new Colorado laws take effect this week and they cover more than you might expect.

Presentations about the so-called big, beautiful bill to the Executive Committee of the Legislative Council on Wednesday was a precursor to a special lawmaking term expected to be called by Gov. Jared Polis for the coming weeks.

The state legislature's Youth Advisory Council presented more than a dozen policy proposals to lawmakers this week.

Congressman Joe Neguse and a coalition of lawmakers are pushing back on a White House proposal to slash funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that supports climate research, including several laboratories in Boulder.