Policy

Voces Unidas Action Fund works directly with local, state and federal policymakers to ensure that current and future policies address our needs and wants as a community.

Bill Tracker

Legislative Priorities

Polling Data

Scorecard

Past Session

Town Hall with Central Mountain Lawmakers

March 1, 2023

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Join Water Quality Coalition

Voces Unidas is co-chairing the coalition of organizations and individuals supporting a bill to begin to address water quality issues in mobile home parks. Join to support and get engaged.

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Sign Up to Testify

We need local leaders to testify in support of key legislative priorities like water quality in mobile home parks, just cause evictions and repealing the ban on local governments being able to pass rent control measures, and more. Send us an email.

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Bill Tracker

Voces Unidas actively lobbies for or against proposed legislation. Below are the bills that we are supporting, opposing or monitoring in 2023 in Colorado. Click on the bill number to get a status report. Scroll down to see all bills. Tracker is updated daily during session. Click here for our federal Bill Tracker.

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Past legislative sessions: 2022, 2021

2023 Scorecard

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2022 scorecard

At Voces Unidas, we like transparency. This is why we track and publish every vote by lawmakers against our legislative priorities. We score every one of our priority bills and then rate each lawmaker based on their actual votes. We invite you look at our scorecard and take a look at how each lawmaker voted.

2023 Legislative Priorities

Here is a list of possible bills/issues that we are actively engaged in. Our position on the bill will be noted once it is introduced. Once the bill is introduced, you can track its progress in the Bill Tracker.

Tier 1

Water Quality — This possible bill would address water quality in mobile home parks. This directly impacts many residents in our communities and is in alignment with the Colorado Latino Policy Agenda.
Language Justice in Emergency Response — This possible bill would incentivize language justice in emergency response. Given the recent fires and floods in our area, this directly impacts many of our communities.

Tier 2

Rent Control — This possible bill would give counties and municipalities the right to pass local rent control measures. This directly impacts many residents in our communities and is in alignment with the Colorado Latino Policy Agenda.
Others TBD

Tier 3 | TBD

Just Cause Evictions — This possible bill would outline the legal grounds for when a landlord can evict a tenant or refuse to renew a tenant’s lease.
Gun Reform — These possible bills would address the sale of assault weapons.
Stopping Disinformation and Deceptive Practices — This bill would prohibit the use of deceptive advertising and dangerous treatments by anti-abortion centers.
Protecting Providers and Patients — This bill will protect legally-protected health care patients, providers, and helpers.
Insurance Coverage for Reproductive Health Care — This bill would close several access gaps related to abortion care.
Language Access in Insurance Documents — This bill requires insurance documents to have certified translation.
Others TBD

Legislative Priorites

2023 Legislative Session

The 2023 legislative session started on Jan. 9, 2023. Voces Unidas hires contract lobbyists to make sure that our legislative priorities are top of mind for lawmakers.

Voces Unidas has adopted the 2022 Colorado Latino Policy Agenda's policy recommendations to inform our legislative agenda in 2023. We may support bills that address the following policy preferences. These issues received support from at least two-thirds of Latinos in our 2022 and 2021 historic statewide polls. See Bill Tracker for bills we are monitoring, supporting or opposing.

HOUSING POLICY

Limit the amount landlords can raise rent on mobile homes to address high cost of housing in Colorado (88%)
Promote policies to make housing more affordable and to increase wages (76%)
Regulate how much lot rent at mobile home parks can increase each year (76%)
Help more families buy homes near quality schools, places of employment, and public transportation by:
- Building up, not out, with multi-story units (71%)
- Allowing multiple units to be built on a single-family lot (70%)
Change state law to allow local counties to make their own policies about rent control to manage the housing crisis (66%)

INCREASED TAXPAYER INVESTMENT

Change Taxpayer Bill of Rights to ensure community programs – like K-12 education and access to healthcare – get more funding (80%)
Improve K-12 education and paying school employees better salaries (72%)
Improve training and regulations for law enforcement officers (67%)
Expand access to child care services for low- income families (67%)
Expand access to reproductive health resources (67%)

HEALTH/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Expand access to basic health care services for those who cannot afford insurance, regardless of immigration status (78%)
Ensure that reproductive healthcare including abortion is accessible to all (69%)
Permanently allow access to safe and legal abortions in Colorado (68%)

GUN SAFETY

Mandate universal background checks for all firearm sales (85%)
Increase legal age from 18 to 21 to purchase assault rifles (75%)
Implement a 10-day waiting period to purchase a firearm (75%)
Ban the sale and purchase of assault rifles (66%)

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Pass new regulations requiring that mobile home parks provide their residents with clean drinking water (80%)
Take additional steps to act on climate change, including clean air/water and transitioning to a clean-energy economy (70%)
Expand rebates encouraging people to purchase electric vehicles and solar energy (69%)

Follow our Bill Tracker for up-to-date information about our positions on bills.

To get involved or for questions, email advocacy@vocesunidas.org.