A state senator is trying again to curb what she has referred to as the “abuse” of the Colorado Open Records Act by certain records requesters.

Similar to a bill that died near the end of the 2024 legislative session, Senate Bill 25-077 gives records custodians extra time to respond to requests made by the public. It lets governments charge “the reasonable cost” associated with filling commercial requests and take up to 30 working days to do so. It also lets them treat multiple CORA requests made by the same person within 14 days as one request — ensuring the requester gets only one free hour before “research and retrieval” charges kick in.

But this year’s measure from Sen. Cathy Kipp, D-Fort Collins, does not include some of the most controversial elements of last year’s proposal: letting records custodians label certain annoying or harassing people as “vexatious” and barring them from obtaining public records for more than a month; limiting public inspection of government employee calendars; and a broad exemption for records containing information that “would invade another individual’s personal privacy.”