Colorado lawmakers are making progress on bills designed to help stimulate the stateâs economy and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic more quickly.
Lawmakers are working on two dozen measures that would allocate about $800 million into various things designed to help businesses and displaced workers more quickly get back to work, schools to get back to in-class instruction, rural and agricultural areas to stabilize their economies, and numerous infrastructure projects dealing with such things as broadband and renewable energy.
One measure, introduced by Sens. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, and Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democrat whose district includes Delta County, would add more money to the Rural Economic Development Initiative Grant Program.