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Government Affairs

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Colorado Conversations About Affordable Housing

CAR’s Vice President of Government Affairs Liz Peetz was part of a panel addressing Colorado’s access to housing and affordability. The program was hosted by the Denver Gazette, which posed questions to panel members who included Ted Leighty, Colorado Home Builders Association; Jonathan Cappelli, Neighborhood Development Collaborative; Peter LiFari, Maiker Housing Partners; Karen Kallenberg, Habitat for Humanity Colorado; and Liz Peetz, CAR.  Many reasons for the problem...

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CAR Mid-Year Legislative Videos Out Now

CAR’s Mid-Year Legislative reviews are out now, with reports from the Legislative Policy Subcommittees: Business and Taxation, Housing, Land Use, Regulatory, and Water. CAR’s Vice President of Government Affairs Liz Peetz gives five-minute updates on each industry area, including the positions CAR is taking on different pieces of legislation. During the session, the Legislative Policy Committee (LPC) monitors the 12-week session’s house and senate bills, and...

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Capitol Connection – April 5, 2022

Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol Affordable Housing Bills at the Capitol CAR Speaks Up For Homeownership Options It's been a very busy couple of weeks at the Capitol for housing legislation. There are several affordable housing bills at the Capitol, many stemming from the summer's transformative affordable housing taskforce work and some stemming from individual legislators themselves. House Bill 1242 - Regulate Tiny Homes...

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Capitol Connection – March 22, 2022

Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol Halfway Through 120 days of Legislative Session We're now just over halfway through the legislative session and the general assembly will begin working on the state budget starting next week. The forecasts from the Governor's Office and the Legislative Council Staff both showed a higher risk of inflation and highlighted the high costs of housing in...

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Capitol Connection – March 8, 2022

Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol Wildfire Legislation At the Capitol There are a plethora of wildfire bills at the Capitol this year, whether it's matching local grants, changing insurance coverage after disasters, helping to cover homeowner mitigation costs to create defensible space, or creating healthier forests, or even looking at how camera's can help us see wildfires coming. CAR...

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Capitol Connection – March 2, 2022

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...

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Capitol Connection – February 22, 2022

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...

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Three New Wildfire Mitigation Bills Intro’d

The Wildfire Matters Review Committee brought three House Bills to the house. HB 1007 ends a tax deduction for property owners that offsets wildfire mitigation expenses. The deduction is replaced with an income tax credit beginning in 2023, which would be available to landowners with a taxable annual income of less than $120,000. Elizabeth Peetz, Vice President of CAR’s Government Affairs, stated the cap “removes the...

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Capitol Connection – February 11, 2022

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...

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Capitol Connection – February 7, 2022

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...