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House Committee Approves Esgar Bill Allowing Ease for Transgender Coloradans to Change Birth Certificate

February 7, 2019
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(Feb. 6) — A bill sponsored by Rep. Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo that will allow transgender Coloradans to change the gender on their birth certificate and other official identification  documents without undergoing surgery or appearing in front of a judge passed the House Health and Insurance Committee today. “This bill is about personal freedom,” said Rep.

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House Passes Tipper & Kennedy’s Bill to Ensure Local Control for Sale of Nicotine Products

February 6, 2019
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Bill will help prevent sale of nicotine to minors (Feb. 6) – The House passed a bill today sponsored by Representative Kerry Tipper, D-Lakewood and Representative Chris Kennedy, D-Lakewood to allow local governments to make their own decision regarding the licensing, taxation and assessing of fees for tobacco products. “We should restore local control and

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House Committee Approves Bill to Help Renters

February 5, 2019
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Titone and Gonzales-Gutierrez’s commonsense bill could help ease housing crunch (Feb. 5) – The House Business Affairs and Labor Committee voted in favor of a bill this morning that would protect renters from unnecessarily high rental application fees. “The high cost of unchecked rental application fees has played a role in exacerbating the affordable housing

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House Passes Buentello-Kipp Bill to Include Special Education Students in Graduation Rates

February 5, 2019
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Bill headed to Senate following 62-0 vote (Feb. 5) – The House overwhelmingly approved Rep. Bri Buentello and Rep. Cathy Kipp’s bill to require Colorado schools to count students who are enrolled in special education and who complete the minimum graduation requirements in state-and-local high school graduation rates. “Every student across Colorado deserves to be