This link will take you to the General Assembly's website that is chock full of information. You can find bills that have become laws; track bills during the legislative session; find your legislator - how to contact them, what bills they have introduced and which bills have become law and to which committees they are assigned; what's happening between legislative sessions; how to listen live to meetings or listen to recordings; and much more - a demonstration of transparency in our state government.

Colorado General Assembly

Glossary of Legislative Terms

Legislative Useful Links - 2025

New 2024 Colorado Laws

Here are some tools that will help you determine which bills in the current session are being followed by the Colorado League.

Be in the know about what is happening in the Colorado Legislature using these links!

Master Bill Tracker and Issue Area Bills

This link takes you to the LWVCO Legislative Action Report page. Find the blue box on the left side of the page. Click on the top entry in the box to access the Master Bill Tracker. It will continue to be populated throughout the 2025 Colorado General Assembly Session as the LWVCO Legislative Action Committee (LAC) votes on the Colorado League's stances on bills. Scroll down the column in the blue box to find bills in the issues area(s) of interest to you and click on the issue area name. Then, click on the individual Bill Number to find: who sponsored the bill, what the current status of the bill is, the latest text of the bill, who voted for or against the bill in committee or in the whole legislated body, who is lobbying, and more.

The Colorado League's Legislative Action Committee studied, discussed, and came to a stance consensus on each of the bills listed. Again, these lists will grow during the legislative session, so check often to see which bills have been added to the League's bills of interest. The League stances are registered with the Secretary of State's office and include SUPPORT, OPPOSE, AMEND, OR MONITOR. Stances are based on LWVCO and LWVUS Principles and Positions.

Legislative Action Report

Access the current edition of the LWVCO Legislative Report. The Legislative Report highlights news from the Colorado House and Senate as well as featured bills the LWVCO Legislative Action Committee is watching as the bills progress through the legislative process.

Colorado General Assembly Display Board

Interested in the bills that will be debated in Committees or on the floor of the Colorado House or Senate today? Use the General Assembly Display Board link to listen live to the testimony and debates, access the schedules, read the agenda and handouts, and learn the outcome of a bill hearing.

House and Senate Members

Using this tool, you can track which bills each legislator sponsors, how he or she votes, and determine how those votes align with LWVCO's positions. You will also find contact information for each member of the General Assembly. [The 2025 Legislators list will be updated when the 2025 legislative session begins on January 8, 2025, when the session legislators are sworn into office.]

2025 Colorado Legislators

Here are some definitions relating to different bill versions you will see on the Colorado General Assembly's website as bills are amended as they move through the legislative process.  Note that a pre-amended bill is the version that includes amendments recommended by the committee of reference, prior to the committee report being approved by the Colorado House or Senate committee of the whole (COW).

The engrossed version of a bill as passed on second reading in the house of introduction includes all amendments adopted up to that point in the legislative process. The engrossed bill is the version that is considered during third reading. 

The re-engrossed version as passed on third reading in the house of introduction includes all amendments adopted by that chamber. The re-engrossed bill is transmitted to the second chamber.

A revised version of the bill includes any amendments made to the bill on second reading by the second chamber.

A re-revised version of the bill includes amendments made by the second chamber on third reading. The re-revised bill is transmitted back to the chamber of origin for any action that it may have to take on the bill or for enrollment and transmittal to the Governor for action. 

These various versions of the bill are available on the Gen Assembly page CO General Assembly - Bills for each bill, under the tab labeled "Bill Text" under the bill summary. You can also access various versions of the fiscal note here as well, under the tab labeled "Fiscal". 

The different versions can get a bit confusing and we want to make sure you are reading the most current version of a bill as it proceeds through the legislative process. 

Steps for Giving Testimony in the Colorado House or Senate as a private citizen

• Go to: leg.colorado.gov
• Click on Committees
• Click on Public Testimony (Ignore top box which is for accessible testimony/handicapped, unless that applies to you.)
• Click on Your Choice of 1) In Person, 2) By Zoom, 3) Written testimony
• Find your bill hearing by looking it up by Committee 1) House Finance, 2) Date of hearing, 3) Bill number. Fill in all of the detail it asks for.

1. For written testimony: Prepare a 1-page written testimony, save it to a file, and when you get to the written choice it is ready to either cut and paste into the box. There is a signup with required name, email.

2. AFTER submitting written testimony, go back into the process and Click on Testify by Zoom. They have the same required name, email. After submitting this, an email comes to you telling you what the link is for the meeting, and a bunch of stuff if you don't know how to use Zoom, the protocol for being in front of a committee, etc.

3. In Person: Assume it is like #2 above. (not sure!)

If you testify by Zoom, you are not required to open your video and show yourself, although most people open their video while they testify. If you wanted to just have the photo up, it would be o.k. They say NOT TO open your face or unmute yourself until they call your name. They pull you from the audience/attendee room to the "panelists" room on the screen and your name/photo is up there along with others signed up to testify online. If there are more than just a few attendees who registered to testify, they will call groups up in person or on zoom.

Over its 100-year history, the national League of Women Voters has developed position statements on a wide array of political issues. These positions are the result of in-depth study and analysis by members and member consensus to adopt the position statements. The position statements listed below represent the outcomes of this process at a national, state, and local level.

How is lobbying legitimate for a charitable nonpartisan nonprofit?

Beth Hendrix, Executive Director, League of Women Voters of Colorado (2024)

1. Are charitable nonprofits able to lobby and advocate? Charitable nonprofits are legally able to lobby, within limits. LWVUS gives definitions and limits here. The Colorado Nonprofit Association addresses the topic well in Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence in Colorado on page 5.)

2. If the League is nonpartisan, why do we lobby? The League of Women Voters was founded almost 104 years ago as a political nonpartisan organization. Political = associated with politics, which LWV certainly is. Partisan = associated with a political party, which LWV is not. Issues are nonpartisan by their nature, though people and parties regularly associate a particular issue with a party platform. But parties shift platforms and values -- heck! Democrats were fighting to keep slavery back in 1860. I'm sure everyone here knows that LWV positions (stances on an issue) come about only after extensive study and debate, allowing League membership to come to consensus and therefore speak with one voice about an issue.

Sharing LWV's Nonpartisan and DEI Commitments with Leaders and Members

LWVUS Webinar: Operating as a Nonpartisan Organization

Nonpartisanship in Partnerships

Nonpartisanship on Social Media

TABOR has created major budgetary problems for the Colorado General Assembly that other state do not have constraining state programs. The March 26, 2025 Colorado Sun offers a detailed explanation and analysis regarding the Long Bill that was just introduced and will be debated and amended in the Colorado House and Senate before being sent to Governor Polis for his signature.

Colorado lawmakers finalize budget proposal. Here’s what they cut to close $1.2B gap — and what they didn’t.

The cuts will enable the state to absorb the rising costs of Medicaid and fully fund K-12 for another year. But they didn’t eliminate the state’s structural deficit, which will require ongoing cuts for years to come.

Brian Eason

TABOR and the Budget