WEEK OF 16 MAR 2015
Not too many new bills have been introduced in the Colorado Legislature in the last few weeks. The limit of 5 bills per member has been approached, and a lot of committee work is still ongoing. A few of the remaining are recommended below. Most of the work in both legislatures this week is managerial in nature As always, you may read for yourself at the following links. HAVE FUN.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2015A/csl.nsf/BillFoldersHouse?OpenFrameSet
As an aside, many of you have used the Federal address of https//www.Thomas.gov. A new site, https//www.congress.gov has a different look as well as some minor different resources.
2015 COLORADO LEGISLATION
H.B. 15-1177 Rural Economic Development Initiative Grant Program
OPPOSE—matching grants, in part, to private business
H.B. 15-1196 CO Flex Accounts For Education Services
OPPOSE—another bureaucracy in Dept. of Ed
H.B. 15-1208 Repeal Of Common Core Education Standards
APPROVE—returns standards decisions locally
H.B.15-1212 Authority To Sell State Trust Lands To Local Gov
APPROVE
H.B. 15-1225 Federal Land Coordination—passed house, now in Senate
OPPOSE—would codify recognition of Fed. Authority on public land
S..B. 15-175 Ammunition Magazines
APPROVE—repeals 2013 law
2015 FEDERAL LEGISLATION
U.S. HOUSE
S.J.RES. 8 Repeal NLRB regulations—passed the Senate
APPROVED—Congressional review of regulations
U.S. SENATE
H.R. 596 Health care law repeal
OPPOSE—assumes Fed. role in health care
534 Repeal immigration orders and funding
APPROVE—Congressional review of regulations
S.J.RES. 8—Repeal NLRB regulations—passed the Senate
APPROVED—Congressional review of regulations
H.R. 399—Border security
APPROVE—SORT OF