According to a press release from the Colorado Majority Communications office, several new laws go into effect on Friday. Click below for the full press release.
On Friday, August 3rd, over 90 new laws that help middle-class Coloradans go into effect. Bills range from advancing affordable healthcare to improving renewable energy efforts to assisting small businesses. Below are a few of the new laws:
Healthcare:
SB 231: Creates a repository to accept and distribute donated cancer drugs (Sen. Lois Tochtrop, Rep. Dianne Primavera)HB 1354: Creates an income tax check-off for the Reproductive Cancers Fund to educate about, screen for, and to treat cancer (Rep. Primavera, Sen. Peter Groff– goes into effect September 1st)
Help Our Heroes:
HB 1149: Improves access to absentee voting for overseas residents (Rep. Joe Rice, Sen. Steve Ward)HB 1352: Allows fallen service members’ families to obtain special license plates (Rice/Ward)
HB 1253: Prohibits insurance carriers from denying coverage to members of the uniformed services (Rep. Alice Madden, Sen. Brandon Shaffer)
HB 1275: Allows the CO National Guard to receive forfeited property (Rep. Rice, Sen. Josh Penry)
HB 1364: Protects military personnel from insurance scams. (Rep. Rice, Sen. Chris Romer)
Renewable Energy/Conservation:
HB 1145: Encourages use of state lands for development of renewable energy resources. (Rep. Mike Merrifield, Sen. Ken Gordon)HB 1220: Requires government entities to purchase “green” products (Rep. John Kefalas, Sen. Groff)
HB 1169: Allows rural Coloradans to generate their own power from renewable sources (Rep. Judy Solano, Sen. Brandon Shaffer)
SB 51: Creates high performance standards for state-funded buildings (Sen. Gordon, Reps. Rob Witwer & Claire Levy – goes into effect September 1st)
Support for Small Business:
HB 1148: Allows owners to have multiple vehicle registrations that expire on the same day. This reduces time at the DMV and eases paperwork for small businesses. (Rep. Rice, Sen. Suzanne Williams)
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is also added to the list of protected categories in employment discrimination effective Friday also…
…last weekend, I went to see “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,” starring Adam Sandler (WOOF!) and Kevin James (not so WOOF, but a funny guy just the same) as a pair of straight firefighters pretending to be a gay couple.
There’s a nerdy NYC, government investigator assigned to weed out all the straight guys who are faking being gay just so they could zero in on taking advantage of our “special rights”!
Was it any good?
…it wasn’t of the same quality as “The Birdcage”, but I was amused and found it funny.
credited to Joe Rice with all kinds of partners. Not bad for the first term of the first Democrat ever elected from HD38 Littleton. This HD is in Tancredo’s CD6 so there is hope for the south ‘burbs yet.
but I guess middle class business owners will appreciate not standing at the DMV more than once a year.
more than anything, most middle-class business owners are upset about waiting at the DMV. Quite the travesty really.
The military service support bills help anyone in the service, lower, middle, or upper class.
The renewable energy for rural areas bits are good news for farmers (who probably fall into the middle class for their regions).
And the efficient building standards will eventually help everyone through lower recurring costs for energy.
I’m middle class and I own more than one vehicle. Of course, it only takes a few minutes to renew said vehicles at my local clerk&recorder’s office; I imagine it’s much worse for folks in urban areas, though.
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