- June 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Gov. Jared Polis has described the session they just wrapped up as “historic.”
The head of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce uses a different h-word.
Chamber CEO Kelly Brough said much of the legislative session felt like an “exhausting haul” for the business community.
Colorado businesses were front and center in fights over a number of this year’s high-profile policy measures — from food delivery service fees that’ll help fund transportation initiatives to rate setting in the health insurance industry to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in certain sectors.
As they reflect on the session, some of Colorado’s top business leaders agree that it was historic, both in terms of the number of bills lawmakers passed and in the substantive policies Democrats got through each chamber, often in spite of business objections.
“(It was) one in which we were constantly on the defense, it felt. Against the wall fighting for our members and…
