Week of 16 Mar 2015

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