Karen Moldovan

The 2025 Colorado legislative session has concluded, and AARP Colorado’s nonpartisan advocacy efforts helped achieve several significant victories for older Coloradans. This year’s legislative advocacy focused on four key areas: financial security, housing, fraud prevention and health care. Additionally, AARP advocates worked to mitigate a budget shortfall’s impact on older Coloradans.

The hallways, committee rooms, and legislative chambers of the CO State Capitol are much quieter today than they were a week ago.

The 2024 legislative session is more than halfway completed, but numerous bills regarding affordable housing strategies are still being debated. Property taxes are another top issue, with a Property Tax Commission meeting weekly to advance bipartisan solutions. Amid all this activity, one bill was described by Rep. Bob Marshall as, “one of the most important bills no one likely has heard of for this entire session.”