Colorado Politics

This week at the Capitol: transportation tax, school budget, coal-rolling and free express lanes

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 Education Committee, 1:30 p.m., Room 112

Senate Bill 39 to create a income tax credit for tuition to private schools.

House Bill 1347 to require a student’s records on threats and suicide assessments transfer with the student to a new school.

House Finance, 1:30 p.m., Legislative Services Building, Room A

Senate Bill 40 to make public records available electronically.

TUESDAY

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

Senate Bill 269 to remove tobacco and nicotine products, as well as lottery tickets, from the 20 percent cap on nonalcoholic products that liquors stores can sell.

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

House Bill 1277 to suspend the driver’s license of a person who leaves the scene of an accident.

House Bill 1333 to seal the records for some marijuana convictions that occurred before pot was legalized in Colorado in 2012.

House Bill 1313 to require law enforcement agencies to do a better job of disclosing assets collected in civil forfeitures, including on a website.

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

Senate Bill 193 to create a national substance abuse and prevention research center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Center in Aurora.

Senate Finance, 2 p.m., Room 357

House Bill 1242 to ask voters for a 0.50 sales tax increase to fund billions of dollars in transportation improvements.

WEDNESDAY

House Education, upon adjournment, Room 112

House Bill 1344 to find and share innovative teaching programs through a collection of pilot programs paid for by gifts, grants and donations.

House Local Government, 1:30 p.m., Room 107

House Bill 1348 to make express lanes on Interstate 25 North free as long as vehicles have two or more occupants.

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

Senate Bill 116 to allow a person to carry a concealed handgun without a permit.

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

House Bill 1227 to reauthorize goals for home and business energy efficiency programs by investor-owned utilities.

Senate Joint Resolution 34 to express support for the Affordable Care Act.

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

House Bill 1288 to require 90 to 180 days in jail on a fourth or subsequent drunk- or impaired-driving conviction.

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

House Bill 1232 to allow public utilities to build and profit off an infrastructure of charging stations for electric vehicles.

House Bill 1290 to create a retirement savings plan with payroll deductions when employers don’t provide one.

THURSDAY

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

Senate Bill 186, the Administrative Procedures Act, to find flexibility in state regulation for independently owned businesses with fewer than 500 employees.

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

Senate Bill 278 to impose a $100 fine for nuisance exhibition of excessive tailpipe exhaust from a modified diesel engine to create a spectacle called coal rolling.

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

Senate Bill 34 the state education budget that proposed per-pupil funding at $5,456.


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