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Thu, Aug 6 · 1 item

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The Complete Record of Who Lobbied Colorado's Failed 2026 Gun Bills

The full accounting of who lobbied Colorado's failed 2026 gun bills is public for the first time. State lobbyist disclosure reports — the last of them due July 15 — close the books on a session in which all three of the legislature's marquee firearms-rights bills died in committee, and the completed record shows national gun-control groups and Front Range city halls lined up against the state's most prominent gun-rights lobby. The three failed measures reached broadly. HB26-…

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Updated Aug 6, 9:14 AM

Wed, Jul 29 · 1 item

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Two Colorado Open-Records Bills Die in the 2026 Session

Two Colorado open-records bills that would have moved in opposite directions — one opening the books on legislative caucus money, the other rewriting the state's public-records law in ways that both expand and narrow access — were both marked "Postponed Indefinitely" in the 2026 regular session, the designation the General Assembly uses to set a bill aside for the remainder of the session. SB26-168, "Transparency of Legislative Caucuses' Money," would have reached money that…

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Updated Jul 29, 12:31 PM