Veto overrides, an Uber pressure campaign and a race to get bills to the floor in the Colorado legislature this week

100 and a few days after Colorado lawmakers convened, Monday begins the ultimate full week of the 2025 legislative session.

Not often do the ultimate 10 days of the session imply a lessening of tensions or a lightening of hundreds. So it’s this 12 months: In a narrative this morning, we described a number of the excellent debates and selections looming, together with a tax reckoning that will by no means come and the muddy way forward for session-long labor and well being care negotiations.

There could also be some readability on these fights within the subsequent few days. The well being care combat — over a reduction drug program — will play out within the Home’s Well being and Human Providers Committee on Monday. Two competing payments, one backed by hospitals and the opposite by pharmaceutical firms, will each be up for debate.

A Democrat-backed invoice that might broaden protections for undocumented immigrants is ready to be heard in Home Judiciary on Monday, too. That invoice cleared the Senate final week however is prone to be the main target of a protracted committee debate and an equally prolonged flooring combat as soon as it reaches the total Home (which it’s anticipated to do).

Within the Senate, the total chamber is scheduled to vote on Home Invoice 1291 as quickly as Monday. The invoice would require ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to institute further safety and driver-vetting protocols. The proposal sailed via the Home, and Uber is now threatening to go away the state ought to it cross.

The corporate has now taken that risk on to customers: In the event you opened the Uber app Monday morning, you have been instantly greeted with a pop-up warning that Uber might depart Colorado. The app additionally gives customers a kind to fill out to oppose HB-1291, which is backed by a legislator who was sexually assaulted by her Lyft driver final 12 months.

We’re effectively into the time of 12 months when totally handed payments are getting signed into legislation on a near-daily foundation. Gov. Jared Polis signed the finances invoice Monday morning, for example. So preserve a watch out for some legislative finality this week and all through the month of Could.

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The session ends Could 7. Here is what else is occurring within the legislature this week.

Veto overrides … possibly

Final week, the Senate comfortably voted to override Polis’ veto of Senate Invoice 86, which might put new laws on social media firms. The measure now involves the Home, the place it wants one other two-thirds majority vote to cross, finishing the override.

It is unclear when — or if — that vote will occur. One of many invoice’s sponsors, Rep. Andy Boesenecker, mentioned Monday morning that supporters have been nonetheless tallying the override’s help and that no resolution on the vote had been made. To be clear, the choice right here is to deliver the vote ahead or to drop it completely — which might sign the votes aren’t there.

That is considered one of two veto overrides the legislature is weighing.

Earlier than rejecting the social media invoice, Polis vetoed Senate Invoice 77, which might change the Colorado Open Information Act to typically give native governments extra time to reply to requests. The invoice’s sponsors instantly mentioned they deliberate search an override.

The Senate was scheduled to take that up final week — till the opposite override vote took priority. It is now on the calendar for Friday.

Housing votes

Talking of the Senate: That chamber totally handed Home Invoice 1004 Monday. The proposal primarily would prohibit landlords from utilizing an algorithm that, critics allege, facilitates price-fixing and hikes up lease.

The invoice now goes again to the Home for some procedural concerns. From there, it goes to Polis’ desk, the place it faces a considerably unclear future.

Home Invoice 1169 — the so-called YIGBY invoice, for “Sure In My Yard,” to permit extra housing to be constructed on spiritual or academic properties — has rolled again and again on the Senate calendar. It is nonetheless ready on its first flooring vote, effectively after it handed the Home. Sen. Tony Exum, one of many invoice’s sponsors, mentioned final week that supporters have been working to shore up votes. That invoice was additionally technically scheduled for Monday but it surely was laid over as soon as once more.

Lastly, the return of single-stair reform can be, additionally set for a primary Senate vote. The invoice — the same model of which died final 12 months — would enable for the constructing of five-story condo buildings which have just one stairwell, quite than two. It is a part of the broader universe of land-use reforms embraced by some Colorado Democrats (and Polis) lately. Supporters argue it could make it simpler to construct residences on small city heaps.