With one-third of every bill introduced in the 2024 session still unresolved as of Monday morning, time has run out for 50 measures that got stuck in appropriations committees.

When the House adjourned for the day around 6:30 p.m. on Monday, 41 bills awaiting action from the House Appropriations Committees died on the calendar since there was not enough time for them to make it through the House and Senate by Wednesday.

In the Senate, nine bills stuck in the appropriations committee died when the chamber adjourned late Monday night.

Two other bills awaiting second reading in the Senate died on Monday night’s calendar.

One other House bill was laid over until May 9, a measure that would have allowed local governments the authority to regulate pesticides. House Bill 1178 sat on the House’s second reading calendar for about seven weeks, a sign it didn’t have the votes to pass.

As of Tuesday morning, 116 bills awaited final resolution and still have a chance of passage by Wednesday at midnight. Only one House bill is left for a third reading in the House, and two Senate bills are pending final votes in the Senate.

Which bills died?

All but a few of the bills that died Monday were stuck in the appropriations committees in the House and Senate.

In the House, there was a slew of tax credit bills, including one that seeks to help veterinary professionals; another for teachers; another to grant a tax credit when a commercial building is converted to affordable housing; and, a tax credit tied to transfers of agricultural assets, a measure intended to help new farmers.

Bills on air quality and oil and gas also died in House appropriations, including measures on air quality permitting; a proposal to increase the number of people on the air quality control commission to include representation from “disproportionately impacted communities”; public notification of hazardous chemical releases; repeal of a severance tax exemption on “stripper” wells; and, another on pipeline safety.

A bill that sought improvements to disability access at Denver International Airport also died, as did at least two measures intended to help military veterans.

Bills on public transparency also died, including a measure that would have allowed for filing ethics complaints for school board members and another on equal access to public meetings.

Senate bills that died Monday included a Joint Budget Committee bill for a roadside improvement and outdoor recreational industry promotional enterprise; the Senate’s version of the Waters of the United States bill, now part of a compromise; a bill to create a stipend program to increase the number of licensed counselors; and a measure on a suicide prevention program for the agricultural workforce.

The final bill introduced in the 2024 session, Senate Bill 233, on property taxes, brings the total for 2024 to 705 measures introduced.