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

Democrats at the Capitol defied Gov. Jared Polis and took steps to push back against the Trump administration. A big slate of gun bills passed. Lawmakers tried to clear hurdles halting sex assault investigations.

Senate Bill 5 would abolish a requirement in the Colorado Labor Peace Act that 75% of workers at a company sign off before unions can negotiate with businesses over union security. That’s after a majority of workers vote to unionize.

The Colorado Capitol News Alliance pored through the more than 600 measures debated at the Capitol this year to highlight the most notable ones that passed and failed.

House Bill 1302 would have imposed a 1% fee on every policy for grants to hail-proof roofs and an effort to limit insurers' risk. But homeowners would have borne the cost, which is why the measure died.

The governor has said he opposes any effort to repeal a requirement that workers get to vote on whether they should be forced to pay fees for collective bargaining representation — whether or not they are members of their workplace’s union. Now Democrats will test whether he'll follow through with a veto.

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.

How a bill about illegal activity on social media turned into a faceoff between lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis.

The state legislature hasn't reversed a governor's veto in more than a decade. The close call may serve as a warning to Gov. Jared Polis that his control over legislation is waning.

The California-based company says it could not comply with House Bill 1291 and the measure would pose too big a legal risk. It has never pulled out of a state before.