Chas Sisk

Connecticut’s forensics lab has not had a backlog of cases for the better part of a decade. How it came to run so well may hold answers for Colorado as its lab moves forward from a scandal and addresses the long wait for test results.

Legislators failed to make revisions or to come up with a plan to keep a first-in-the-nation AI law that’s been derided by tech companies from taking effect early next year.

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.

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.

Backers say the Colorado Voting Rights Act will protect against efforts to scale back civil rights, but cities fear it could open up new challenges to how they run their elections.

Supporters say the law creates a space on forms to recognize lived experience and aligns death certificates with other state records.

The bill would have required daycare chains to be more transparent about pricing and to notify parents prior to layoffs.

The proposal calls on districts to adopt formal policies on hearing challenges and sets limits on who can file them.

A proposal in the General Assembly would add “gender” to the list of details recorded about the deceased, along with “sex.” The move is already another battle line between conservatives and progressives.

Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic lawmakers want to cap state insurance payments to hospitals, but providers say they’re already operating in the red.

Local officials worry a state voting rights law could open them to new litigation — and change how Colorado’s city elections are run.

The WWII-era law requires unions to take two votes before they can represent workers in labor negotiations.

Some lawmakers had demanded the Colorado Bureau of Investigation show a clear plan to resolve the 500-day wait for test results.

Four states have set up procedures for people to restrict sales of guns to themselves voluntarily.

Republicans highlighted their point by posing alongside a stack of dollar bills. Reaching more than a foot and a half, they totaled $4,500 — the amount GOP lawmakers claim Colorado families would save if their legislative package were adopted.