The Colorado legislature has eight days until the end of the 2025 session and is working Tuesday to push bills through committee and take floor votes. Several ongoing debates remain unresolved, including on taxes, labor unions and other matters.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
11:19 a.m. up Colorado lawmakers have voluntarily tabled proposals that would’ve banned certain credit card fees and would’ve required gas pumps to feature climate change warning labels.
Each bill passed the state House a few weeks ago, only to hit roadblocks in the Senate. Each of the bills’ sponsors agreed to kill their proposals in initial committee votes in recent days, amid uncertain support and a crunching end-of-session calendar.
House Bill 1282, which would have generally prohibited credit card companies from charging swipe fees on taxes or tips, was backed by restaurants and some business groups as a way to save those companies money.
But it was intensely opposed by credit card companies, airlines and the unions that work with them, among others. They promised legal challenges and warned of a litany of consequences should the bill pass.
The bill’s sponsors, Republican Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer and Democratic Sen. Lindsey Daugherty, had delayed a first committee vote in a bid to shore up support. But that backing didn’t materialize.
“This is a pretty complicated bill, and there was a lot here,” Kirkmeyer, of Brighton, told the Senate’s Judiciary Committee on Monday. “And sometimes it takes more than a year, more than one session, to get through it all.”
The climate change warning bill, House Bill 1277, squeaked out of the House in early April on the thinnest possible margin with 33 votes in support. It would’ve required gas stations and other fuel retailers to slap a sticker on pumps warning that the gas contributed to climate change, similar to the labels on cigarette packages.
But the measure’s Senate sponsors asked the chamber’s Transportation and Energy Committee to kill the bill last week. Sen. Faith Winter, a Westminster Democrat, said “this just wasn’t the year to do it.”
“I think (the oil) industry has a lot of financial resources to advertise and present their part of the good story, and that we don’t always have the same resources — obviously financial resources — to do those kinds of campaigns,” added Sen. Lisa Cutter, a Littleton Democrat.
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