Colorado Politics

This week at the Capitol: Sanctuary cities, sexting, fracking and construction defects

Here are the legislative committee hearings of note for the week ahead in the Colorado Capitol. Committee schedules are subject to change. The daily schedule is available on the legislature’s website.

MONDAY

House Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources, 1:30 p.m., Room 107

House Bill 1282 to create council to oversee a loan repayment program for veterinarians willing to work in underserved rural areas for four years.

Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, 1:30 p.m., Room 357

House Bill 1150 to prevent bail between conviction and sentencing or appeal in stalking and domestic violence cases.

Senate Judiciary, 1:30 p.m., Room 352

Senate Bill 281 to allow crime victims to sue local governments deemed to be sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants.

House Bill 1230 to “protect Colorado residents from government overreach,” meaning immigrants and federal authorities.

TUESDAY

House Business Affairs and Labor, 1:30 p.m., Legislative Services Building Room A

House Bill 1290 to created the Colorado Secure Savings Plan for private-sector workers to make payroll deductions to a retirement plan.

House Judiciary, 1:30 p.m., Room 112

House Bill 1064 to create the misdemeanor offense of misuse of electronic images by a juvenile to avert charging some children involved in sexting with more serious offenses.

House Bill 1302 reduces penalties and encourages restorative justice in consensual cases of sexting between children 14 to 18 years old.

House Public Health Care and Human Services, 1:30 p.m., Room 107

Senate Bill 74 to create a pilot medication-assisted program in Pueblo and Routt counties to combat addiction.

Senate Finance, 2 p.m., Room 271

Senate Bill 267 to reclassify the state Hospital Provider Fee into an enterprise fund and by selling state buildings and using the proceeds to improve rural roads and schools.

Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs, 1:30 p.m., Room 357

House Bill 1175 to require those with a cosmetology license to take a one-time, one-hour class in domestic violence awareness.

Senate Transportation, 2 p.m., Room 352

Senate Bill 278 to ban nuisance exhibits of vehicle exhaust.

WEDNESDAY

House Education, upon adjournment, Room 112

Senate Bill 200 to award tax dollars to high-achieving schools and school districts from the existing education budget.

House Finance, upon adjournment, Legislative Services Building, Room A

House Bill 1119 to establish a fund from fines against employers who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance to pay claims for injured workers who are uninsured.

House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs, 1:30 p.m., Legislative Services Building Room A

Senate Bill 35 to increase penalties against those caught tampering with oil and gas pumping equipment from a misdemeanor to a felony.

House Bill 1279 to require a vote of unit owners in an association before filing a lawsuit over construction defects.

House Transportation Committee, 1:30 p.m., Room 112

Senate Bill 153 to turn the Southwest Chief Rain Commission into the Front Range Passenger Rail Commission to explore bringing Amtrak Service up the Front Range north from Walsenburg.

Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy, upon adjournment, Room 357

House Bill 1277 to define the 1,000-foot setback from a drilling operations to schools as from the campus boundary, not the school building.

Senate Business, Labor and Technology, 2 p.m., Room 354

House Bill 1229 aimed at making post traumatic stress disorder a conditioned covered by workers’ compensation insurance for first-responders.

House Bill 1269 to repeal any law that prohibits a worker from sharing in the workplace how much he or she earns.

Senate Education, upon adjournment, Room 352

House Bill 1003 to create a strategic plan to address teacher shortages.

Senate Judiciary, 1:30 p.m., Room 352

House Bill 1072 to add purchasing a person for sex to the definition of human trafficking and requirements placement on the sex offenders registry.

House Bill 1172 to require a minimum eight year prison sentence for a conviction of child sex trafficking.

THURSDAY

Senate Health and Human Services, 1:30 p.m., Room 271

Senate Bill 250 to exempt children from required school immunizations.

House Health, Insurance and Environment, 1:30 p.m. Room 107

House Bill 1247 to prevent insurers from restricting which chiropractors, optometrists or pharmacists their customers use.


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