The Colorado Competitive Council advocates for business-friendly public policy at the State Capitol that ensures a strong economy and good jobs for Coloradans. The Investor Committee takes positions throughout the legislative session on bills that impact Colorado’s business community and industries. Working with our Steering Committee of statewide chambers and economic development corporations, we advocate for the diverse needs and interests of businesses throughout the state. What we strive for is simple: we want Colorado to be a great place to do business.
2025 Legislative Session
View our stances on bills for the 2025 legislative session or access our legislative directory. You can view our priorities for the 2025 session below.
2025 legislative priorities
The Colorado Competitive Council advocates for policy solutions that grow Colorado businesses and ensure our state continues to be competitive nationally and globally as a great place for people to live and do business. Our membership of diverse industries, Chambers of Commerce, and Economic Development Corporations around the state allows us to serve as partners to lawmakers to create policies that achieve prosperity for all Coloradans. We are non-partisan and rely on data and member input to inform our policy priorities.
The Colorado Competitive Council evaluates policies based on the following principles:
Free markets and competition ensure high service levels, innovation, and competitive pricing. Regulations on businesses should therefore be minimal, flexible, and allow for adaptation to individual industry and business operating environments.
Incentive-based policies achieve outcomes better than mandate-based policies.
Nothing improves individual and community quality-of-life outcomes like good jobs.
Responsive, efficient, and effective government provides the infrastructure upon which businesses grow and thrive, and facilitates a robust economy.
We work for:
Limiting regulations that unduly burden businesses, stifle our economy, create market restrictions, or restrict employment.
Protecting and defending Colorado’s competitive and diverse economy and entrepreneurial opportunities by working for sound employment policies and mitigating overly-prescriptive employment regulations.
Policies that promote affordable, high-quality healthcare for Colorado workers while balancing considerations around quality and access.
Workforce initiatives that provide the educational, financial, and regulatory tools to meet current and future workforce needs in target industries and in-demand occupations.
2025 priorities:
Policies that support a stable and predictable property and casualty insurance market that ensures robust carrier participation, choice of diverse product offerings and carriers for Colorado businesses and residents, and competitive pricing that supports a more affordable cost of living and doing business.
Sustainable budget-balancing approaches that protect business-generated cash funds and do not unfairly burden industry with new fees that are ultimately passed to customers.
Policies that facilitate the development of new housing, with an emphasis on housing that is affordable for low- and middle-income Coloradans. In particular, reforms to Colorado’s construction litigation laws that have nearly eliminated condos in our housing market and contributed to an increasingly challenging tort environment for viable multi-family housing.
Environmental policies that protect Colorado’s natural resources in a pragmatic manner that ensures business continuity, protects businesses and residents from undue cost burdens, and preserve reliability.
Prevent expansion of liability for Colorado businesses in the form of unnecessary new private rights of action and increases in damages, and instead, promote dispute resolution that’s faster and more affordable for all parties, and administrative enforcement rather than judicial enforcement.
Refinement of Colorado’s artificial intelligence regulations to ensure ease of compliance for businesses and continued competitiveness of our robust, innovative technological sector in the state.
Protecting the Labor Peace Act, a carefully-crafted compromise between right-to-work and closed shop approaches to unionization that has benefited Coloradans for 80 years.