Legislative Session Highlights
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2024 Legislative Session
Consumer Protections in Event Ticket Sales (HB24-1378)
Most of us have had the experience of buying a ticket to an event and choosing a ticket that looks affordable only to see the price jump when we go to check out. This bill protects ticket buyers by requiring sellers and resellers to show the full price, including fees, the first time you see the ticket, requiring them to let you resell your ticket if you want to, and guarantee refunds uif the show is canceled. This bill also cracks down on scammers who use deceptive websites that look like a venue or seller to steal your money.
Middle-Income Housing Tax Credits (HB24-1316)
The housing crisis has touched all of us, and this bill helps address the housing crisis by creating an incentive to build long-term middle-income housing. This is one piece of a large puzzle of legislation geared to increasing housing supply for low and middle income Coloradans so everyone can find an affordable place to live.
Effective Implementation of Affordable Housing Programs (HB24-1308)
This bill streamlines the affordable housing grant programs within the Division of Housing to make sure we are getting funds out the door to build more affordable housing, and increases the data collection requirements of these programs to make sure we are efficiently using these funds. It also reorients the Division’s priorities for these funds to maximize affordable housing outcomes, rather than return on investment.
Protecting Vulnerable Road Users (SB24-195)
Colorado ranks among the worst in the country for injuries and fatalities in accidents between pedestrians and cars. This bill takes steps to improve the use of electronic traffic enforcement systems to protect vulnerable road users (VRUs) and to streamline public transit. This bill also earmarks funding from CDOT specifically for projects that protect vulnerable road users.
2023 Legislative Session
Low-income Housing Property Exemptions (HB23-1184)
This bill makes it easier for non-profit developers, like Habitat for Humanity, and Community land trusts to build for-sale affordable housing by giving them a break on their property taxes, so long as the homes are sold to low-income applicants and stay in the affordable housing stock.
Regulating Local Housing Growth Caps (HB23-1255)
To solve the affordable housing crisis, we need to build out and diversify our housing stock across the state, especially in areas with high demand. When one community arbitrarily restricts growth, the housing burden falls on neighboring communities because people can’t afford to live where they work. This bill prohibits enforcement of arbitrary caps on the growth of residential housing. Communities are still empowered and encouraged to use data and knowledge of their own communities to decide which projects are right for them, but they can’t simply place an arbitrary cap on growth.
A critical greenhouse gas reduction plan was passed in 2021 to set emissions reductions targets for energy production across the state. SInce that bill passed, the landscape of energy producers changed, and this bill updates the Clean Power Plan to reflect those changes while adding an “check-in” in 2027 for energy producers that aren’t already on track to meet their greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Scope of the Bridge and Tunnel Enterprise (HB23-1276)
The purpose of the Bridge and Tunnel Enterprise is to finance, repair, reconstruct, and replace Designated Bridges and repair, maintain, and more safely operate tunnels. This bill expanded the scope of the enterprise to do more preventative maintenance that it could when created. This will make the enterprise more effective and save the state money by catching problems and fixing them before repairs become more costly.