A bill to make updates to the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and put reauthorization of the SCFD’s penny-on-$10 sales tax on the November ballot passed out of the House Finance Committee yesterday. The Chamber has supported the SCFD since it was created in 1987. In addition to supporting arts and cultural organizations across … Read Post
Denver Metro Chamber President and CEO Kelly Brough joined over 100 other organizations voicing their support to reauthorize the hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund at the Capitol on Tuesday. Two bills aimed at addressing this issue, House Bill 1420 and House Bill 1421, were introduced on Monday. The first bill would reauthorize the … Read Post
This week the Chamber’s Legislative Policy Committee heard directly from Henry Sobanet, the director of the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting on the most recent economic outlook for the state. Published last Friday, the report shows scaled-back growth of the economy. It is estimated state revenue will grow just 1.5 percent this fiscal … Read Post
Last week marked the halfway point of the legislative session—the unofficial signal that legislators will start to focus on the state budget. This Friday state economists will share the budget forecast, and we anticipate that whether or not to create a hospital provider fee enterprise fund, a position the Chamber has strongly supported, will be … Read Post
Bad news is often easier to manage than uncertainty. At least you know what you are facing and can begin to plan for it. This is the second session where we have asked legislators to reauthorize the hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund. During last year’s session we were asked to hold our proposal … Read Post
This week Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman released an opinion confirming that creating a hospital provider fee enterprise fund is constitutional. On Tuesday, Colorado House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst announced she’ll introduce a bill to make the change. As we’ve alerted you in the past, the Chamber has been focused on reauthorizing this fee into … Read Post
We don’t take positions on policy issues that affect Colorado lightly. We gather a broad group to understand the issue, we seek feedback from differing views, we look at the experience of others who have gone before us, we engage our members to ensure we understand the implications of the policy from their perspective and … Read Post
