Tag: Rollie Heath

The battle over payday loan fees will strain partisan loyalties at the Legislature again this year as new legislation was introduced Friday in the House.

A bill that would have allowed anyone able to purchase a handgun in Colorado to conceal the weapon was shot down in the State and Military Affairs Committee today.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats were safe as speakers at a rally held Tuesday evening to express solidarity for unions and the working class, sponsored by Moveon.org, had crowds riled up.

Gov. John Hickenlooper signed his first seven bills into law today and said he was not yet on board with Sen. Rollie Heath's tax increase ballot initiative.

A handful of Democrats stood behind Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, as he announced today a citizens' initiative to roll back tax rates in hopes of generating $1.63 billion over three years for higher education and K-12 education.

As State Senator Rollie Heath calls on Colorado voters to raise taxes in order to better fund education, his friends across the aisle today offered praise to Governor John Hickenlooper for agreeing that now is no time to raise taxes.

A full scale invasion of Wyoming by Colorado was one of the recommendations the presenters of a University of Denver study facetiously proposed as it was explained that Colorado's revenue structure is broken and would not be fixed even by a good economy.

Thursday, the Senate Education Committee passed SB 126, also known as Colorado ASSET. The debate showed Republican legislators conflicted on the issue and Democrats ardently in support.

Legislation modeled after a section of an Arizona law was killed yesterday in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs committee on a party-line vote as Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, proclaimed the bill un-Coloradan. Bill sponsor, Sen. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, said the bill's death was just another example of Democrats failing to address the immigration issue.

Senator Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, said today that an elections commission will soon introduce legislation to hold Colorado primary elections in June in order to comply with new federal election guidelines.