Before It's Law is live, and 122 bills have changed since August

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, every bill of the sixteen sessions from 2016 to 2026.

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

The national unemployment rate now runs to August 2026. It is 4.1%.

Colorado's newest rate on this site is for May 2026. It is 3.9%, and the state marks it preliminary. The state had already published its rates for June and July, and this site did not have them yet.

We do not print the two rates side by side at different months. The difference that showed would be the calendar.

Correction, 24 September 2026: this section first said the state had not published its rates for June, July or August. It had published June and July. The corrections log has the details.

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 Bills and Laws.

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 our own estimate.

• 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 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics — unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, Colorado (LASST080000000000003), public API Back to the sentence