Just over a week remains in the Colorado legislature’s 2025 session — and a number of the Democratic majority’s marquee proposals remain in limbo.

Big tax and labor bills are still unresolved as the end of the session approaches. Time pressure is mounting in other fights, including one between hospitals and the drug industry over how the proceeds from a prescription drug program can be spent. And top lawmakers already have punted on other priorities or scaled them back.

Limbo doesn’t mean death in the legislature, but every flip of the daily calendar puts more pressure on a bill’s backers, opponents and interested parties to find a resolution to their liking. In some cases, bills have lingered as negotiations proceeded in the background. Other deals have been hinted at but haven’t yet emerged.

But the clock is ticking. Barring a special session, the legislature must adjourn for the year by May 7. Whether the proposals pass, fail, change dramatically or simply don’t materialize will depend on a dozen factors between now and then.

“We have a tremendous volume moving through both chambers — a lot of big discussions and conversations still happening,” House Speaker Julie McCluskie said late last week. “It is kind of that magic time when things start to fall into place and come together.”

She added: “I’m eager to celebrate another great legislative session in less than two weeks.”

Here’s a look at several big debates to watch:

A TABOR reckoning? Maybe not.

A few weeks after a group of House Democrats called for a “reckoning” on the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and previewed a slew of tax-reform measures, most of that package is either on life support or never saw the light of day.

The centerpiece of the package — a resolution that would direct state lawyers to pursue a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of TABOR’s very existence — hasn’t yet reached the House floor, let alone started its journey through the Senate. The bill passed a committee vote in early April but has languished since.

House Majority Leader Monica Duran said it was questionable if the debate would happen at all, given how little time was left in the session. TABOR, enacted by voters more than 30 years ago, requires voter approval for tax increases and limits how much government spending can grow.

Rep. Sean Camacho, a Denver Democrat backing the TABOR lawsuit, said he was “optimistic” the proposal would still be heard. Either way, he said, the state’s budget constraints — which many Democrats ascribe to TABOR’s spending caps — aren’t going away.

“Regardless of whether our bills passed or not, next year’s budget situation — and the year after that and the year after that — the question remains, can we sustain ourselves under TABOR?” he said Friday.

Another blockbuster proposal — to replace the state’s flat income tax with a graduated system that would more steeply tax the wealthiest Coloradans — was never introduced.

McCluskie said Thursday that there would be no income tax proposal introduced this year. That would’ve been a seismic legislative fight and also very likely would’ve been opposed by Gov. Jared Polis, who’s repeatedly voiced support for lowering and eliminating the income tax.

House Bill 1296, which would have tweaked or eliminated tax credits and deductions, was gutted in a House committee; its amended version passed an initial floor vote Friday.

Another idea, to reclassify highway funding so it didn’t fall under the TABOR cap — thus allowing the state to spend more money — was also never introduced.