Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol Updates on State Legislation This week at the Capitol several bills continue to work their way through the legislative process: Senate Bill 22-099 Sealing Criminal Records was amended on February 24th in the Senate Judiciary Committee in several ways to make the bill work better for law enforcement and legal professionals that directly deal with...
Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol CAR is Working to Improve State Legislation HB22-1007: Assistance Landowner Mitigation. The Colorado Association of REALTORS (CAR) is now in SUPPORT position after we received specific amendments to make the bill better by continuing the wildfire tax credit for individual landowners as an important part of the multi-pronged solution to address wildfire mitigation...
Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol CAR's GA Division and LPC Work on Housing and Wildfire Mitigation Bills This week, CAR, at the direction of the Legislative Policy Committee (LPC), worked to clarify and improve bills at the Capitol and worked with executive agencies to mitigate current process issues in court practices under previous legislation passed in 2021. Senate Bill 22-019 is a bill...
Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol HB 1006 is supported by the Legislative Policy Committee (LPC) because it will help property owners that lease have the ability to get a property tax exemption for childcare. We think that this is a good public policy change that will help increase daycare and childcare centers in commercial buildings that might be...
Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol The Affordable Housing Transformative Interim Taskforce Releases Its Report This week, the Affordable Housing Transformative Task Force that worked through the summer released their final report to the General Assembly.These recommendations will be the beginning of an advocacy and legislative process to determine how we spend the remaining federal ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) housing dollars...
Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol CAR Legislative Policy Committee Takes First Policy Positions HB22-1051- Support-This legislation extends CHFA's income-tax credit program from December 2024 to December 2034. It will also increase the annual cap from $10 million to $15 million beginning in 2023 until the 2034 expiration of the program. Between 2015 - 2021, the state Affordable Housing Tax...
Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol Welcome to the Second Regular Session of the 73rd General Assembly Welcome back to public policy season. On Wednesday, the Legislative Session commenced and we will be working on important policy at the Capitol related to REALTOR(R) Party issues for the next 120 days. The Legislative Policy Committee (LPC) will begin reviewing bills next week, so if you...
We need your help immediately! House Democratic leadership is working on legislation, extending the CDC Eviction Moratorium through December 31, which is moving quickly and could happen TODAY! We need Congress to hear our position: REALTORS® are opposed to any "unreasonable effort by Congress to extend the eviction ban without assistance for small housing providers." Forcing landlords to provide free housing for vaccinated Americans may...
There is a lot to celebrate this year as CAR honors our 100 years of service to Colorado consumers and looks ahead at how to serve our clients and communities in the century ahead. Over the past several months, CAR and Habitat for Humanity worked to push forward four legislative solutions aimed at helping improve homeownership opportunities for all Coloradans....
This Week at the State Capitol: Housing Development Grants Hotels Tenancy Support Program (SB21-242) Senate Bill 242 transfers $15 million from the General Fund to the Housing Development Grant Fund within the Division of Housing for rental assistance, tenancy support service programs and grants and loans to purchase underutilized hotels, motels and other properties for temporary housing. The bill expands those who...