Denver, CO – Here at the Colorado Citizen’s Press, we do a quick review of the week at the Colorado legislature. We will provide links to topics we covered, and topics we didn’t cover, to keep you up to date.
So, let’s get to it! This week the legislature opened with a bunch of speeches from politicians. This will continue until the session ends in May. We covered House Speaker K.C. Becker’s Communist Manifesto speech. You can watch Governor Jared Polis’ out of touch with reality speech here. We also found it funny that Polis was protested from the left before his speech. Polis is a bona fide extreme-far-left liberal. It’s scary and comical that there are people to the left of him.
The Democrats also want to repeal the death penalty again, one of the few things they didn’t get from Santa off of their Christmas list from 2019.
Here are two links to the bills introduced in both the State House and State Senate. Click on anything marked in blue to find out more. We will highlight some of these bills this week. You can review the introduced bills by following the links below.
There have been about 170 bills introduced in this legislative session, and we’re three only days in! Here are a few we didn’t cover yet that caught our eye:
SB20-004 Postsecondary Education Loan Repayment Assistance (Concerning creating a student loan repayment assistance program for post-secondary education). Your tax dollars will pay for 24 months of student loans for that kid that got a degree in some obscure major and can’t get a job. Free stuff with our money, yeah, this is what we get from the Democrats.
SB20-029 Cost Of Living Adjustment For Colorado Works Program (Concerning an annual cost of living adjustment to the amount of basic cash assistance, a Colorado works program recipient receives). To over-simplify this, welfare recipients get a 10% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). So, those of us who work and pay taxes, and who didn’t get a COLA, would pay for people who are not working to receive a big COLA.
HB20-1081 Multilingual Ballot Access (Concerning the expansion of multilingual ballot access for electors in the state). The highlight here is counties will be required to provide translators in a bunch of non-English languages to translate ballot language. If you are in the group that knows other countries don’t accommodate people to this level, this is a bill to monitor.
Stick with us for further coverage of the 2020 legislative session.
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