HB26-1276 would tighten limits on state cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and Rep. Scott Slaugh says the move could cost Colorado and its counties more than $4 million a year in federal reimbursements while the state fiscal note captures only a fraction of the exposure.

More than 100 central Kansas landowners showed up to a wind-project meeting the developer had called off hours earlier, the latest collision between a regional transmission buildout and the state's long-standing renewable property-tax exemption.

Patty McKernan testified against HB26-1335 at the House Education Committee hearing April 16. The bill cleared committee 8-5 and would require institutions of higher education with student health centers to provide on-site abortion medication starting in 2027.

HB26-1030 would give AI and cloud operators a 20-year sales and use tax exemption while attaching a 3-to-1 clean-to-carbon ratio on any new utility capacity built to serve them. A Piceance Basin natural gas executive says the condition collides with how hyperscale AI workloads actually run.