Pueblo lobbyists summarize 2025 Colorado session impacts, urge local priorities for next year

On May 12, 2025, lobbyists from Capital Success Group presented a legislative wrap-up to Pueblo City Council, outlining bills passed in the 2025 Colorado legislative session that they said will materially affect Pueblo City finances and services.

Gil Romero, principal at Capital Success Group, told the council that the session produced 657 introduced bills and 585 passed measures, and highlighted one late-session measure, “Senate Bill 290,” which he said creates a provider stabilization fund intended to help clinics left with negative margins after recent Medicaid coverage losses. “The bill creates a provider stabilization fund that will receive a minimum of a hundred million dollars in investment,” Romero said, adding that the bill was funded with interest from the state’s unclaimed property fund.

The lobbyists warned, however, that the source of the funding raised concern: Romero said the state’s unclaimed property pool contains roughly $1.5 billion and that the legislature is using interest from that account to back the stabilization fund. He also noted a $1.2 billion state budget shortfall for the year and a one-time sweep of…