| HB22-1006 |
Child Care Property Tax Exemption
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Allows property owners that lease space to a nonprofit child care center to claim a property tax exemption
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This bill is an incremental step in making the provision of child care more affordable and will incentivize property owners to lease spaces to nonprofit child care centers which may result in some of those savings being passed on to the provider. |
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| HB22-1010 |
Early Childhood Educator Income Tax Credit
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Creates a refundable tax credit for early childhood educators
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Compensation for ECE educators is low, especially compared to the value of their essential work. Access to child care is a necessary work support and many providers are struggling to keep their doors open. This tax credit will retain ECE educators. |
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| HB22-1047 |
Protecting Human Life at Conception
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This bill would ban virtually all abortions and impose several criminal penalties against providers, pharmacists, and other health professionals who perform surgical abortion care or dispense medication for a non-surgical procedure.
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The Women’s Foundation of Colorado is committed to economic security for all Colorado women and girls regardless of background or identity. Research clearly links full access to reproductive health resources to economic security. Read Full Reprodutive Health Statement. |
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| HB22-1050 |
International Medical Graduate Integrate Health-care Workforce
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This bill addresses Colorado’s physician shortage with improved licensure pathways for immigrant and refugee physicians.
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Communities across Colorado face healthcare worker shortages—often to the detriment of residents who lack access to essential preventative and ongoing care. This bill would add more physicians to the pipeline. |
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| HB22-1055 |
Sales Tax Exemption Essential Hygiene Products
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Creates a sales tax exemption on essential items including diapers, period products, and incontinence products.
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Every Coloradan deserves to live with dignity. For far too many, their inability to pay for essential needs including menstrual products, infant diapers, or older adult incontinence products, means they can’t. With this bill, Colorado can take the first step toward changing that by ensuring essential products aren’t taxed. |
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| HB22-1070 |
Special District Early Childhood Development
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-Allows an early childhood special district to include all or part of an existing
political subdivision (e.g. all or part of a county, municipality or school district)
-Explicitly states that early childhood special districts may accept gifts, grants and
donations
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To bolster the ECE sector, public support is needed. This bill will allow for regions to fully implement special tax districts to establish funding streams for their community. |
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| HB22-1075 |
Induced Termination of Pregnancy State Registrar
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This bill would require healthcare providers that perform abortions to collect private information about their patients and report it to the state registrar of vital statistics in the Department of Public Health and Environment, who would then create an annual report to be made available to the public.
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The Women’s Foundation of Colorado is committed to economic security for all Colorado women and girls regardless of background or identity. Research clearly links full access to reproductive health resources to economic security. Read Full Reprodutive Health Statement. |
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| HB22-1079 |
Abolishing Abortion in Colorado
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The bill would outlaw nearly all abortion procedures and attempts to supersede any federal law without regard to the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade and other Supreme Court decisions, past and future.
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The Women’s Foundation of Colorado is committed to economic security for all Colorado women and girls regardless of background or identity. Research clearly links full access to reproductive health resources to economic security. Read Full Reprodutive Health Statement. |
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| HB22-1133 |
Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund
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Supports the establishment of the statewide paid family medical leave insurance program
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A long-time support of paid family and medical leave, WFCO supports this bill and a fully inclusive implementation of Proposition 118: Paid Family Medical Leave Insurance Program. |
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| HB22-1230 |
Supportive Services Program Renewal
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The program offers up to $400 in support services to Colorado job seekers or newly employed individuals who are actively working on employment goals and do not qualify for or have access to other resources to help them achieve these goals.
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The smallest of barriers – a flat tire, a broken cell phone, or a day at child care might prevent an individual from showing up at work. This program will help hundreds of Coloradans to go back to work and achieve their professional goals. |
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| HB22-1169 |
Prohibit Sexual Act Without Consent
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Colorado should join the 34 states that use victim-centered terminology in statute: does not consent/without consent.
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Juries have the important task of deciding whether a sexual assault was committed - but the language they have to use in Colorado is confusing and outdated. This bill would simplify and focus on consent in statute. |
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| HB22-1287 |
Mobile Home Park Act
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This bill would increase stability for residents, protect the affordability of mobile home parks, and create greater accountability.
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We hear directly from stakeholders throughout Colorado that one of their main barriers to economic security is access to affordable and safe housing. Given the rising cost of living, and especially housing in Colorado, it is vital that Colorado supports systems change that allow for diverse types of homes and communities to exist, including mobile home parks. |
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| HB22-1259 |
Modifications to Colorado Works Program
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This bill will make several meaningful reforms to Colorado Works/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
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Many Colorado women and their families that live far below the poverty level depend on Colorado Works/TANF to get by. These improvements will allow for a more inclusive and impactful use of this important program. |
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| HB22-1279 |
Reproductive Health Equity Act
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This bill would establish that every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception; every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to choose to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion; and a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of the state.
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The Women’s Foundation of Colorado is committed to economic security for all Colorado women and girls regardless of background or identity. Research clearly links full access to reproductive health resources to economic security. Read Full Reprodutive Health Statement. |
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| HB22-1289 |
Cover All Coloradans Act
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This bill makes health insurance coverage more accessible for pregnant people and children in families who earn low wages.
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Access to healthcare is a key barrier to economic security, especially for women who earn low wages or might be undocumented. |
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| HB22-1295 |
Department of Early Childhood and Universal Preschool Program
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Creates the Department of Early Childhood and a statewide universal preschool program
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We know that access to inclusive, affordable, and high-quality early care and education allows for children to learn and grow while parents are able to be in the workforce. |
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| HB22-1314 |
Towing Carrier Nonconsensual Tows
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This bill expands consumer towing protections and creates the Office of Tow Hearings.
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For many years WFCO has heard directly from our grantees that a single fee, fine, or inability to use one’s vehicle can create a barrier big enough to stop an individual in their path to economic security. When a car is towed unfairly or unbeknownst to an individual, it can wreak havoc on their well-being, especially for someone who is a caregiver and/or earning a low wage. |
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| HB22-1317 |
Restrictive Employment Agreements
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The bill prohibits certain restrictive post-employment agreements.
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The bill is in line with the nationwide trend limiting the use of non-competes. |
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| HB22-1367 |
Updates to Employment Discrimination Laws
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The bill amends employment discrimination laws in Colorado.
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This bill will modify the Colorado Anti-discrimination Act to prohibit discrimination in employment practices. |
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| SB22-095 |
Improving Missing Person Investigations
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This bill will improve missing persons investigations in several ways, including reducing the timeframe for communicating with other law enforcement agencies after a person is reporting missing from 24 hours to 8 hours for a missing adult an 2 hours for a missing child and requiring more public reporting on missing persons cases involving women from African-American, Black, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Indigenous and tribal, Hispanic, Latino, aging, disabled, and LGBTQ communities.
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Women of color are disproportionately impacted by crimes including homicide and domestic violence. A third of the 300,000 women and girls reported missing in 2020 were Black. Four out of five indigenous women experience violent crime. |
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| SB22-150 |
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives
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This bill will establish an office of a liaison for the relatives of missing and murdered Indigenous people to support relatives of missing and murdered Indigenous people and to operate an alert systems, improve trainings for peace officers, and support interagency cooperation for investigations.
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Efforts to find missing women of color are often under resourced and lack adequate urgency to improve outcomes. In cases of missing indigenous women, jurisdictional complications present challenges for interagency cooperation. |
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| SB22-139 |
Juneteenth New State Holiday
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This bill will establish Juneteenth as a state holiday.
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While Juneteenth is already recognized as a federal holiday, this bill will recognize the emancipation of African-American slaves for Colorado state employees. Other employers are not required to observe Juneteenth on June 19th but are welcome to offer it to their employees. |
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| SB22-159 |
Revolving Loan Fund Invest Affordable Housing
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This bill will create a revolving loan fund within the division of housing in the department of local affairs to make investments in transformational affordable housing.
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For years WFCO grantees have told us that a key barrier to economic security is access to affordable housing. |
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