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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....

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...

Capitol Connection – January 28, 2022

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)...

Capitol Connection – January 22, 2022

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...

Capitol Connection – January 14, 2022

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...

Capitol Connection – June 11th, 2021

Legislative Advocacy this Week at the State Capitol 2021 Legislative Session Comes to an End The 2021 legislative session came to a close late Tuesday. Over the past 116 legislative days, the Colorado legislature tackled several huge issues such as statewide transportation funding that has plagued the state for many years. Policymakers also allocated large state and federal stimulus dollars...

Capitol Connection – June 4th, 2021

Legislative Advocacy this week at the State Capitol Transparency and Accountability Improvements for Special Districts Senate Bill 262 increases transparency and accountability about property taxes for residents. Special Districts include anything from your neighborhood construction improvement or development to fire district or scientific and cultural district or even water districts such as Water World. One type of special district is...

Capitol Connection – May 28, 2021

Legislative Advocacy this week at the State Capitol Amendments Increase Requirements for Disclosure and Transparency of Fees in HOAs House Bill 1229 increases requirements for disclosure and transparency in the operations of HOAs in Colorado common interest ownership communities. The bill requires HOAs to maintain a list of all fees, assessments, and expenses that it charges in connection with the...

Capitol Connection – April 23, 2021

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...

Capitol Connection – April 9, 2021

Celebrate Fair Housing Month Colorado REALTORS® promote fair housing and anti-discrimination policies and practices in our advocacy and day-to-day business. This year, CAR introduced the Century of Opportunity Legislative Package that aims to remove barriers to homeownership, and increase opportunity for economic mobility for all Coloradans, especially Colorado’s communities of color who represent less homeownership across our state. Those solutions...