COVID-19 Policy and Legislative Updates
May 29, 2020
The Policy and Legislative Advisory Network (PLAN) is committed to keeping the larger network abreast of policies, legislation, regulations, and rules being implemented across the state and nation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Local COVID-19 Policy Updates
Coronavirus In Colorado; The Numbers
According to today's data release, in Colorado there have been 173,300 people tested, 25,613 positive cases, 4,307 hospitalized, 1,436 deaths among cases (1,181 deaths due to COVID), 277 outbreaks at residential and non-hospital health care facilities, 60 of 64 counties with positive cases. In Adams County we have 3,142 cases and 120 deaths.  Read More from CDPHE HERE
Governor Polis Releases Statement on Demonstrations in Denver
Governor Jared Polis released the following statement after incidents of violence took place in the city of Denver during a peaceful protest.“Tonight is a very sad night for our state. While we are still uncovering all of the facts about what took place, a protest regarding the killing of George Floyd devolved into vandalism and violence, and I was absolutely shocked by video evidence of a motorist attempting to run over a protestor. Coloradans are better than this. I share the immense anguish we all feel about the unjust murder of George Floyd. But let me be clear, senseless violence will never be healed by more violence.” Read More from Governor Jared Polis HERE 
Denver Mayor Hancock, City Leaders React To Protests Demanding Justice For George Floyd
More than 900 miles from the spot where George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after being pinned to the ground by a white Minneapolis police officer, protests erupted across Denver on Thursday night, as demonstrators stormed state Capitol grounds, blocked traffic on Interstate 25 and faced off with police officers, demanding justice for Floyd's murder. Denver Mayor Hancock said, like protesters, he is “outraged” by Floyd’s murder, and that the community is right to speak out and demand change. Read More from Colorado Politics HERE
More George Floyd Protests Planned At Colorado Capitol Into The Weekend
Plans for additional protests at Colorado’s Capitol seeking justice for George Floyd prompted the cancellation of Senate and House of Representatives sessions planned for Friday and Saturday. House Majority Leader Alec Garnett said the shutdown of the legislature, which only reconvened Tuesday after a 2½-month coronavirus-prompted break, is intended to “allow space for protests that we expect to continue on Friday and into the weekend.” Read More from The Denver Post HERE
Colorado Legislature Won't Be In Session Friday, Saturday After Destructive Denver Protests
The Colorado legislature will not be in session on Friday or Saturday as planned after destructive protests in downtown Denver on Thursday night in response to the death of a black man during a confrontation with police in Minnesota. House Speaker KC Becker, D-Boulder, and Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, confirmed the decision to The Colorado Sun late Thursday. Read More from The Colorado Sun HERE  
In Party-Line Vote, Colorado Legislature Agrees To Let Some Members Participate Remotely
Colorado lawmakers have changed their rules to allow members to virtually participate in hearings and debates, and vote remotely.  Democrats uniformly argued that the changes would allow their colleagues with health concerns to participate in public policy without risking serious illness or death in a declared public health emergency. Senate Republicans agreed lawmakers who don’t feel safe shouldn't come to the Capitol, but argued that allowing remote participation would fundamentally erode parliamentary rules, weaken public oversight and lead to unequal representation. Read More from CPR HERE 
Colorado Democrats' Gun Reform Agenda Is Latest COVID Casualty
Colorado House Rep. Tom Sullivan had a gun bill drafted and ready to introduce before the 2020 legislative session even started in January. But now, his legislation requiring lost or stolen firearms to be reported is headed toward the chopping block, along with nearly 300 other bills claimed by the coronavirus pandemic. Read More from The Denver Post HERE
Colorado's $30.3 Billion Coronavirus-Sickened State Budget Explained in 10 Numbers
Colorado lawmakers will begin debate Monday on the $30.3 billion coronavirus-sickened state budget — and no one is happy. The cuts in the spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 are unprecedented at 16% over two years and so are the moves lawmakers used to draft a budget. The extraordinary nature of this year’s budget package is expected to generate significant debate. Here's a look at the 10 most important budget numbers and how they will shape the debate to come. Read More from The Colorado Sun HERE
Colorado Schools Could Be $490 Million Short Next Year. Lawmakers Call For Repealing Gallagher Tax Limit
After taking a 15% bite out of state education funding for next school year, the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus could eat another 9% of local school funding in the year after that, thanks to a complex Colorado tax law intended to protect homeowners but now straining businesses and rural areas. A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to head off this property tax collapse by asking voters to repeal what’s known as the Gallagher Amendment. Doing so would also provide relief to small fire, library, and hospital taxing districts around the state. Read More from Chalkbeat Colorado HERE
While Dozens of Bills Are Getting Axed, A Bill On Fire Fighting Chemicals Sails On
Over the past three days, House and Senate committees have been putting an end to dozens of bills left over from the first two months of the 2020 legislative session. But Thursday, a bill on firefighting chemicals won unanimous support from the House Finance Committee. HB 1119 was approved by the House Energy and Environment Committee on March 9, before the General Assembly shut down for 10 weeks due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Read More from Colorado Politics HERE
As Colorado Schools Start Plotting Fall Classes They Have More Questions Than Answers
The coronavirus is forcing Colorado school districts to get creative as they reimagine what classes could look like this fall. Among the options: hybrid classes with some students in schools and others learning from home; staggered and shortened school schedules; pushing desks 6 feet apart, spreading classes across multiple rooms and having teachers rotate between them. And for some of the state’s youngest students, school could unfold as a half day. Read More from The Colorado Sun HERE
On Thursday Governor Polis Provided Update On State Response To COVID-19
On Thursday Gov. Polis provided an update on Colorado’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasized the importance of staying at home for older Coloradans and those with underlying health conditions. The Governor announced that the state’s Care Facility Task Force has completed 747 infection control surveys, including 100% of all nursing homes in the state. The state has also received and is in the process of reviewing 1,048 isolation plans from congregate care facilities across the state. Gov. Polis also applauded the announcement to extend the Colorado National Guard’s federal deployment until mid-August. Read More from Governor Jared Polis HERE
On Thursday Governor Polis Provided Update On State Response To COVID-19
On Thursday Gov. Polis provided an update on Colorado’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasized the importance of staying at home for older Coloradans and those with underlying health conditions. The Governor announced that the state’s Care Facility Task Force has completed 747 infection control surveys, including 100% of all nursing homes in the state. The state has also received and is in the process of reviewing 1,048 isolation plans from congregate care facilities across the state. Gov. Polis also applauded the announcement to extend the Colorado National Guard’s federal deployment until mid-August. Read More from Governor Jared Polis HERE
Is Colorado Open? Yes and No. Here's What To Know
Colorado is starting to open up, but that creates a lot of grey areas of what you can and can’t do. If your cabin fever is getting rough, especially as the weather heats up, we get it. CPR compiled a list of places that are happy to host you (with some precautions), and others that you’ll have to wait until later this summer or even next year to enjoy. This list will be updated as more announcements are made. Read More from CPR HERE 
Coronavirus Deaths At Colorado Nursing Homes Slow, Reach 737; Outbreaks At Restaurants, Stores Continue To Climb
The pace of coronavirus deaths among Colorado nursing home and senior care center residents slowed during the past week, rising by 26 to 737. That’s a stark difference compared to recent weeks in which the state counted nearly 100 new fatalities each week. Deaths among residents of nursing homes and senior care centers now comprise 53% of the 1,392 people who have died after becoming infected with the coronavirus in Colorado. Read More from The Colorado Sun HERE
These Colorado Cities Are Closing Streets This Summer To Help People Stay Socially Distant
At least a dozen Colorado cities are making plans — or thinking about making plans — to temporarily close streets to give restaurants and other businesses more space to serve their customers. Some cities are allowing eateries to expand onto sidewalks and into alleyways, while others are creating new pedestrian malls. Here’s a brief round-up. Read More from CPR HERE
Apartment Association Helps Raise $100,000 For Renter Assistance
The Colorado Apartment Association has helped raise $100,000 to assist tenants with rental payments, consisting of donations largely from housing providers. Renters who have lost incomes or jobs due to COVID-19 may apply for partial or full relief using the fund through the Resident Relief Foundation, a Los Angeles-based organization that helps “responsible residents” in financial emergencies. The association represents over 3,000 members who collectively manage in excess of 300,000 apartments. Read More from Colorado Politics HERE
With Guidelines Still Murky, Colorado Bars, Breweries Start Reopening Along With Restaurants
You’ve probably started to notice your favorite Colorado breweries, bars, distilleries, cideries and more drinking establishments reopening alongside restaurants this week. In a Tuesday press conference, Gov. Jared Polis said that these businesses, too, will be able to open following the guidelines announced over the weekend for restaurants.Polis commented on the contradiction, saying that regardless of their specialty in food or beverage, establishments can reopen to in-house eating and drinking as long as they’re not acting as a “social free-for-all.” Read More from The Denver Post HERE
Nearly 500,000 Coloradans Have Filed For Unemployment
Since the coronavirus struck Colorado in mid-March, nearly half a million residents have filed for some form of unemployment. Before the pandemic, the previous monthly record for benefits paid out was $102.8 million in May of the Great Recession. In April 2020 alone, $315 million in regular benefits were paid out. Read More from CPR HERE
Coloradans Collecting Unemployment Will Need To Actively Look For Work Again
Now that economic activity is starting to pick up again, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment will once again require those collecting unemployment benefits in the state to actively look for work. When authorities urged everyone to stay home as much as possible, the state suspended requirements that unemployment insurance claimants actively try to find a job. Because the state is transitioning to the safer-at-home phase and there is a “modest but important” reopening in the economy, that requirement will return. Read More from The Denver Post HERE
Colorado Officials Side With Workers In 84% Of Recent Unemployment Disputes
Although new claims for Colorado unemployment benefits continue to decline as businesses reopen, a growing number of workers are arguing they should stay on benefits rather than return to a job — and the vast majority are winning disputes being settled by state officials. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment officials have received about 1,100 submissions from employers about workers who have refused to come back to work in recent weeks and want to keep receiving jobless benefits. Read More from Denver Business Journal HERE 
Aspen And Telluride Hoped Antibody Tests Would Lift Lockdowns. Instead, It Brought Confusion
In April, when the Pitkin County Public Health Department announced it had obtained 1,000 COVID-19 antibody tests that it would offer residents at no charge, it seemed like an exciting opportunity to evaluate the efforts underway to stop the spread of the virus. However, the plan soon fell apart amid questions about the reliability of the test from Aytu BioScience. Read More from CPR HERE
Think You Had COVID-19? Chances Are Good... You Didn't
Dr. David Buether admitted the antibody testing program at National Jewish Health has been, in his words, “bursting a lot of bubbles” as of late. One of the region’s most robust antibody testing programs has failed to find anything close to a virus that has run its course in the area.Tuesday, leaders with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) estimated less than 3% of Coloradans have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Read More from 9News HERE
Abortion Ban Backers Gather 30,000 Signatures In Extended Push
The backers of a ballot initiative to generally ban abortions after 22 weeks will turn in 30,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s office on Friday, three times the number they were short of initially. Initiative 120 and its associated campaign, Due Date Too Late, would suspend the medical licenses of physicians and charge them with a misdemeanor for performing an abortion after the estimated gestational age of the fetus reaches 22 weeks. There are exceptions for saving the life of the mother. Read More from Colorado Politics HERE
"A Slap In The Face"; Some Rural Counties Frustrated With How Colorado Grants Health Order Waivers
Since late April, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has allowed counties to apply for variances on regulations under its “safer-at-home order.” Requests are evaluated using criteria related to the disease’s prevalence in the county, hospital capacity, and the county’s proposed containment measures. Nearly half of Colorado’s 64 counties have applied for a variance and nearly all of them, 31, have been approved. Read More from CPR HERE
National COVID-19 Policy Updates
Buck Introduces Bill To Ban Coronavirus Relief Benefits For Undocumented Immigrants
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck has introduced a bill that would prohibit federal coronavirus relief money to any state or city unless it certifies that no undocumented immigrants are “targeted exclusively” to receive benefits. The bill, which Buck named the No Bailouts for Illegal Aliens Act, would apply to money appropriated in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act and any legislation subsequent to it. The ban would address entities that directed funding to people “who are believed to be unlawfully present” in the United States. Read More from Colorado Politics HERE
Protests Over George Floyd's Death Spread Across U.S.
A Minneapolis police station was overrun and set ablaze by protesters Thursday night as destructive demonstrations raged in the city and spread across the country overnight Friday after the death of George Floyd, an African-American man, in police custody. He died after pleading, “I can’t breathe,” while a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck. The death set off days of continuing protests and scattered looting of stores in the city, as demonstrators denounced another in a long line of fatal encounters between African-Americans and law enforcement officers. Read More from The New York Times HERE
Minneapolis Mayor Urges Calm As Protests Spread Across U.S.
Seeking to quell increasingly violent protests over the death of George Floyd that have now spread to other cities across the U.S., Minneapolis’s mayor started Friday with an early morning public call for calm and disavowed a tweet by President Trump. Mr. Trump condemned violent protesters in Minneapolis in a pair of tweets sent overnight, and said he could deploy the National Guard to “bring the City under control.” Twitter Inc. placed a notice on the tweet and shielded it from view for breaking what the company said are its rules about glorifying violence. Read More from The Wall Street Journal HERE
Twitter Hides President Trump's Tweet About Minneapolis, Saying It Glorifies Violence
President Trump said he will "send in the National Guard" to restore order to Minneapolis, which has been wracked by protests and looting following the death of George Floyd, a black man, after he was pinned to the ground for several minutes by a white police officer. Read More from NPR HERE
Police Offer In George Floyd Killing Charged With Third-Degree Murder
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer involved in the killing of George Floyd, was charged Friday with third-degree murder and manslaughter, according to Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. Freeman said that the delay in Chauvin's arrest, which came four days after Floyd's death on Monday, was due to the need to collect sufficient evidence — and that it was "by far the fastest" his office had charged a police officer. He added that he also anticipated charges against the other three officers involved in Floyd's arrest and death, but refused to elaborate. Read More from Axios HERE
In George Floyd's Death, A Police Technique Results In A Too-Familiar Tragedy
In the cellphone video of George Floyd’s death, the arresting officer, Derek Chauvin, keeps a knee pressed on the back of his neck for about eight minutes until Mr. Floyd stops speaking or moving. For police trainers and criminologists, the episode appears to be a textbook case of why many police departments around the country have sought to ban outright or at least limit the use of chokeholds or other neck restraints in recent years: The practices have led too often to high-profile deaths. Read More from The New York Times HERE
1 in 4 American Workers Have Filed For Unemployment Benefits During The Pandemic
More than 40 million Americans have filed for first-time unemployment benefits since the coronavirus pandemic forced the US economy to shut down in March. One in four American workers has filed for unemployment insurance. Another 2.1 million people filed initial jobless claims last week on a seasonally adjusted basis. It was the tenth-straight week in which claims were in the millions. America had never recorded a single week of 1 million jobless claims prior to the coronavirus crisis. Read More from CNN HERE 
White House, Congress Discuss "Return To Work" Of $450 A Week
Congress and the White House are debating a “return-to-work bonus” this summer, aimed at the more than 40 million workers who have lost jobs and filed for unemployment during the deadly pandemic, as a new incentive for those who go back to work. President Trump likes the idea, but talks remain fluid about how big the bonus should be and how long it should last.Directly giving workers a government bonus for several weeks would be largely unprecedented in the United States, although it has been done in other countries. Read More from The Washington Post HERE  
Fed Days Away From Emergency Lending To Midsize Companies
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday said the central bank will open the doors of its emergency lending program for midsize businesses in a matter of days. Under the “Main Street” lending program, the Fed will buy the majority of a bank loan to a company with up to 15,000 employees or up to $5 billion in annual revenue. Read More from Politico HERE
Consumer Spending Fell A Record 13.6% In April
U.S. consumer spending, the U.S. economy’s main engine, fell by a record 13.6% in April during coronavirus lockdowns, but there are signs that purchasing is starting to pick up. Personal income, which includes wages, interest and dividends, increased 10.5% in April. The jump reflected a sharp rise in government payments through federal rescue programs, primarily household stimulus payments of $1,200. Unemployment insurance payments also rose sharply. Read More from The Wall Street Journal HERE
Why Millions Of Americans Are Getting Coronavirus Stimulus Payments On Scammy-Looking Debit Cards
They might look like a scam, but the white envelopes from an Omaha-based entity called “Money Network Cardholder Services” that many Americans received this week are surprisingly legit. Inside those envelopes, which are finally being delivered to millions of Americans, are Visa-branded debit cards loaded up with coronavirus stimulus payments from the federal government. An untold number of Americans, believing the envelopes are junk mail or the debit cards are a scam, are ignoring them or throwing them out. Read More from Vox HERE
States Move Cautiously In Contending With Huge Budget Gaps
States and localities are hemorrhaging revenue because of the coronavirus, but many are also in no rush right now to raise taxes. It’s not a stance they can take forever — states, cities, towns and tribal governments are almost certainly going to need to tighten up their fiscal situations with both new revenue and spending cuts at some point. Read More from Politico HERE
House Passes Bill Loosening Rules On PPP Small-Business Loans
The House approved a bipartisan bill that would loosen requirements on hundreds of billions of dollars in small-business loans, responding to concerns from employers struggling to stay open during the coronavirus pandemic. The House bill reduces the level of Paycheck Protection Program funds that must be used for payroll to 60% from 75%. The bill also gives borrowers up to 24 weeks to use the funds, up from the eight set in the initial bill passed in March, and extends the deadline to rehire workers to Dec. 31. The bill passed 417-1 on Thursday. Read More from The Wall Street Journal HERE
Colleges Face Student Lawsuits Seeking Refunds After Coronavirus Closures
Brown, Penn, Purdue — universities with hallowed traditions, proud alumni and another thing in common: Right now they're being sued by disgruntled students. The students claim that when campuses shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, they should have been entitled to more of their money back. And the list of institutions facing such challenges is growing, including private institutions and entire public systems in California, Florida, North Carolina and Arizona. The cases — now dozens in all — are raising difficult questions about what truly makes a college education valuable. Read More from NPR HERE
HHS Announces $4.9 Billion Funding Distribution To Nursing Homes Impacted By COVID-19
On May 22, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it would disburse $4.9 billion in CARES Act funding to Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding could help support counties as we provide critical health services through 824 county-supported nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Each SNF will receive a fixed distribution of $50,000, plus a distribution of $2,500 per bed. Read More from NACo HERE
What Telehealth Brings To Opioid Use Treatment
With virtual treatment for opioid use disorder likely on the rise, a group of researchers this week noted that some key questions remain unanswered. Maintaining access to medication is especially important during the pandemic, and recent federal policy has relaxed restrictions on the remote prescription of controlled substances. Depending on the treatment program, virtual care could involve video, texts, apps and home drug tests that patients share on screen. Read More from Politico HERE
IRS Proposes Guidance For Expanded Carbon Capture Tax Credit
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) late Thursday provided guidance for expanding a tax credit that incentivizes the use of still-developing technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The long-awaited update to the regulations for carbon capture tax credits follows a 2018 budget bill directing the IRS to offer the credits. Read More from The Hill HERE
Treasury Updates the Coronavirus Relief Fund Frequently Asked Questions
The Department of Treasury has updated its guidance on the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) for state, territorial, local, and tribal governments. Through the CRF, the CARES Act provides payments to state, local, and tribal governments navigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More from US Department of Treasury HERE
CDC Announces Guidance for Reopening Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released guidance on reopening schools, which includes a school decision tool to assist administrators with making reopening decisions for K-12 schools. The considerations in the guidance are supplemental and do not replace any state and local health and safety laws, rules, and regulations. Read More from the CDC HERE
New Federal Workers More Likely To Be Fired After Filing Whistleblower Complaints
New federal employees still in a probationary period are more likely to be fired after filing whistleblower complaints than their permanent employee colleagues, according to a new report, which questioned whether those probationary workers were receiving equal treatment. Probationary employees are not entitled to many of the same protections and appeal rights as their non-probationary colleagues, but they can bring allegations of wrongdoing to the Office of Special Counsel. Read More from Government Executive HERE
President Trump Says U.S. Will Be "Terminating" Relationship With WHO
President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States would be “terminating” its relationship with the World Health Organization over its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump last month announced that the U.S. was halting funding for the WHO pending a review of its initial response to the coronavirus outbreak. It was not clear how Trump planned to withhold the funds, much of which are directed by congressional appropriation. The president typically does not have the authority to unilaterally redirect congressional funding. Read More from NBC News HERE
Election 2020; Democrats Gear Up To Hit GOP Senators On DACA
Democrats and Latino-focused outside groups are preparing to weaponize the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program against vulnerable Senate Republicans. The high court is poised to rule any week now on whether President Trump’s termination of DACA was lawful. If the justices come down on his side, it would clear the path for the administration to strip protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers” currently shielded by the Obama-era program. Read More from The Hill HERE
How The U.S. Might Distribute A Coronavirus Vaccine
Potential game-changer vaccines will be sought after by everyone from global powers to local providers. After securing supplies, part of America's plan is to tap into its military know-how to distribute those COVID-19 vaccines. In his May 15 announcement of Operation Warp Speed (OWS) — the official effort to accelerate the fight against the pandemic — President Trump said that "when a vaccine is ready, the U.S. government will deploy every plane, truck, and soldier required to help distribute it to the American people as quickly as possible." Read More from Axios HERE 
How The World's Most Powerful Country Is Handling COVID-19
America has passed a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths from a novel coronavirus that began to spread half a year and half a world away. Many Americans think their president has handled the epidemic disastrously, that their country has been hit uniquely hard and that there is a simple causal relationship between the two. The 100,000, which does not include excess deaths mistakenly attributed to other causes, is higher than any other country’s. Read More from The Economist HERE
How Fitness Will Change Forever
Centralized digital platforms—some run by gym companies—have boomed, and now they have an opening to turn fitness into the same kind of collective, homogenized experience that league sports, office life, movies and television, dating, video games, and shouting at your relatives have become. Over time, the options we have for working out—and the options we don’t—are likely to settle into something very different from what we might have expected only a few months ago, and to do so faster and under greater pressure than they would have without the coronavirus. Read More from The Atlantic HERE
How To Watch The SpaceX Crew Dragon Manned Spacecraft Launch
A new era in the American space program is set to begin as two veteran NASA astronauts lift off aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon en route to the International Space Station — but not quite as soon as originally planned. Bad weather forced flight controllers to scrub Wednesday's scheduled liftoff from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, and the launch now been rescheduled for Saturday. It will be the first launch of American astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly nine years, since the final flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2011. It will also be the first manned flight for the SpaceX Crew Dragon and the first time a commercial spacecraft has carried NASA astronauts into orbit. Read More from CBS News HERE
Why SpaceX's Historic Mission Needs To Wait Until Saturday For A Second Attempt
When you’ve got a 230-ft. tall rocket filled with 76,000 gallons of explosive fuel sitting on the launch pad, the President in the viewing stands and millions worldwide waiting to watch the great machine fly, you’d figure you wouldn’t schedule the event for a spring afternoon in Florida, when bad weather stands to wreck the whole party. The scrubbed flight left a lot of people asking, Why don’t NASA and SpaceX just pick a day and time to launch when the forecast is clear? The answer: It’s not up to them. It’s up to physics. Read More from Time HERE 
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The Rocky Mountain Cradle to Career Partnership (RMC2C) Backbone team is working to support network partners in their efforts to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Backbone continues to be in a position to bring people together to work collectively, specifically around emergency response and recovery related to COVID-19.

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