Colorado lawmaker wants to end cage-free eggs & grocery bag laws

Remember when eggs were cheap and grocery bags were free? If one Colorado lawmaker has his way, it’ll be that way again…

Representative Ryan Gonzalez’s House Bill 25-1074 seeks to eliminate the hen confinement standards passed by state lawmakers in 2020.

Gonzalez also wants to reverse a portion of Colorado’s law banning single-use plastic bags. That law requires retailers to charge ten cents for single-use paper bags. Plastic bags wouldn’t come back, but Gonzalez’s House Bill 1051 would eliminate the ten-cent fee for the paper bags.

These are the first two bill proposals of Gonzalez’s legislative career.

House Bill 1074 is up for its first vote on Monday, January 27, in the House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Committee. House Bill 1051 regarding single-use paper bag fees does not yet have a scheduled hearing.