Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR)

Medicaid took the brunt of the final reductions, include a reimbursement rate cut for providers and a cap on Cover All Coloradans, which provides health care to immigrants who are children or pregnant.

A bill that would ask Colorado voters to put billions more toward school funding passed its first committee hearing.

Advocates say Colorado schools are at 1989 spending levels and Census data consistently puts the state in the bottom 20 for per-student spending.

Sponsors of industry-backed data center bill say they are amending it in ways that will change the fiscal projections.

If the legislature and then voters sign off on the plan, every dollar of the surplus used for a tax credit over the next decade or more would be a dollar that could have otherwise been used for the general fund.

The federal government shutdown delayed the release of key business and labor data, leaving forecasters in the dark about the true state of the economy.

One reason is that the state is paying out more to lower income residents through targeted tax credits.

Eliminate the cap? Use some of the excess to fund specific programs and services? Try to invalidate the 1992 constitutional amendment altogether?

The big union bill, a resolution forcing a lawsuit aimed at dismantling the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and Gov. Jared Polis signature housing measure are all still pending with just five days left in Colorado’s 2025 legislative session.

The suit would essentially force taxpayers to pay for an effort to dismantle the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which was approved by voters in 1992