Before It's Law is live, and 122 bills have changed since August
Every figure here is read from a published document, or worked out from figures that are. Each one is checked again from this page every time it is built.
Before It's Law opened to readers this week
Before it's law: every bill and every recorded vote, per bill, in the legislature's own words. Tallies of votes, never scores of people.
The page went live on 16 September 2026. It is at Before It's Law.
Each bill has a page of its own. One example is HB26-1116.
A bill page prints the fiscal note, the versions and each recorded vote. The tally on it is the one the legislature printed.
No party is read, counted or shown. Nobody is ranked, and there is no scorecard.
Two captures of the bill record, and what moved between them
We hold two captures of the bill record. A capture is a copy we keep, so a change can be seen later.
The first ran from 15 to 17 August 2026. It read 7,310 bills.
The second ran on 15 September 2026. It read 656 bills.
The second one covered the 2026 regular session and the 2025 extraordinary session. Those are the only sessions that can still change.
So 6,654 bills were not read again. Those sessions are closed, and this brief does not claim they held still.
Of the 656 bills read again, 122 changed.
Each of the 122 moved to a new fiscal note stage, and every one of them reached a final note.
Six bills changed an effective date. Three changed a state spending figure, two a state revenue figure, and two a TABOR figure.
No bill's count of recorded votes moved. The last vote this session recorded was on 13 May 2026.
The country's jobs figure reached August. Colorado's still stops at May.
The national unemployment rate now runs to August 2026. It is 4.1%.
Colorado's own rate stops at May 2026. It is 3.9%, and the state marks it preliminary.
We read the state's own file again on 16 September 2026. May is still the newest month it serves.
So the two records are three months apart, as they were last week. June, July and August are not late by our reckoning. The state has not published them.
We do not print the two rates side by side at different months. The difference that showed would be the calendar.
Both figures are on Ask WB, each with the document it came from.
The legislature recorded no votes this week
This section carries every vote the General Assembly recorded in the week the brief covers, with the tally the legislature printed for each one.
The General Assembly recorded no votes between 11 September 2026 and 17 September 2026. Its most recent recorded vote was on 13 May 2026.
Every recorded vote since 2016 is at Before It's Law.
The capture record has not reported since 10 September
Two feeds here are copied every week. One is the road department's payee-level spending. The other is the prison population.
Both are served on a rolling window, so a week nobody copies is a week gone.
The newest entry in the capture record is from 10 September 2026.
It says the road spending feed gave a new copy. It says the prison population had not refreshed.
There is no entry for this week. The routine runs on Thursday morning.
That is unaccounted for, and we report it that way rather than as a quiet week.
One correction since the last brief, and it is about a week we did not copy
One entry has been logged since 10 September. It was logged on 15 September.
No copy of the road spending feed exists for 25 August 2026.
Copies exist for 4, 11 and 18 August, then 1 and 8 September. Fourteen days passed instead of seven.
Nothing about that week was wrong. It was published, and it can no longer be looked up.
No figure on this site is worked out across the missing week. Any window that would span it is left blank, with this gap named.
The entry is in the corrections log.
A note on the checking
Every figure above comes from a published document. Each one is read again from this page every time the page is built, and compared against the dataset it came from.
A publisher that has not published a month yet is not making a mistake, and we do not log one. Things we get wrong go in the corrections log.
How each figure is produced, and what we refuse to produce, is on the methodology page.
Where these figures come from
Every figure above is one of two kinds, and this is which. FACT means a publisher printed the figure and we read it there. CALC means we worked it out from figures a publisher printed, and the arithmetic is on the methodology page. Nothing here is estimated. The vote counts are a third kind and are not listed below. Each one is the tally the legislature printed on its own vote page, which the table links.
- FACT Unemployment rate, United States (seasonally adjusted) · Aug 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey — unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, United States (LNS14000000), public API v2 Back to the sentence
- FACT Unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) · May 2026 · Dept. of Labor and Employment (via data.colorado.gov), Unemployment Estimates in Colorado (4e3w-qire) Back to the sentence