Live updates: Labor bill debate begins, trans rights bill set for vote, Senate finalizes immigrant protection bill

With less than three days left until the Colorado legislature adjourns its regular session lawmakers are back Monday to move several contentious bills through key votes Several ongoing debates remain unresolved Our reporters are providing updates on the action in the Capitol This story will be updated throughout the day a m update After the House worked a full day Saturday lawmakers are back in the Capitol this morning for the final three days of the session First a quick roundup of the weekend The House passed Senate Bill which seeks to expand the state s laws prohibiting certain interaction with federal immigration leadership That came a day after the U S Department of Justice sued Denver and state bureaucrats over the laws SB- builds upon House lawmakers also moved closer to ending the session-long B debate Hospitals had backed a bill that would block pharmaceutical companies from limiting the federal discount drug operation while pharma proposed its own measure that would require more transparency and guardrails around how the undertaking s benefits are spent Both bills had trucked along throughout the session but on Saturday the pharma bill s sponsors heavily amended their bill in the hospitals direction The two measures then passed their committee votes and are headed to the House floor There s likely still to be a fight given that the debate has been among the most-lobbied fights of the year Before that fight reaches the floor though House lawmakers are in the end taking up Senate Bill a pro-union bill opposed by Gov Jared Polis and the business population Negotiations over the bill collapsed over the weekend much more on that here and the bill s sponsors and their labor union allies are now pressing ahead Colorado House begins debate on labor union bill after negotiations collapse with business leaders This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e details if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i