THIS WEEK AT THE COLORADO CAPITOL | Week of April 7, 2025

Here are legislative committee hearings and other events of note for the week ahead for the Colorado General Assembly.

Committee schedules are subject to change. Schedules for both the House and Senate can change at any time. The website is the best resource for keeping up with daily activities. 

Options for public testimony during committee hearings can be found here

Regulations for remote testimony by the public can be found here.

Bills listed below may not be the only items considered by a committee during the hearings. 

OF NOTE FOR THIS WEEK: The 2025-26 state budget bill, SB 206, and 63 accompanying bills, will be heard by the House this week. 

MONDAY, APRIL 7

1:30 p.m., House Education Committee, room 271

  • HB 1320, McCluskie and Lukens — School Finance Act. Background here.

1:30 p.m., House Finance Committee, room 112

  • HJR 1023, Camacho and Garci — Require GA TABOR Constitutionality Lawsuit. Background here.
  • HB 1292, Boesenecker — Transmission Lines in State Highway Rights-of-Way 

1:30 p.m. House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs, Legislative Services Building, room A (LSB-A)

  • HB 1319, Pugliese and Duran — County Commissioner Vacancies
  • HB 1191, Richardson — Elections to Fill County Commissioner Vacancies
  • HB 1315, Sirota and Pugliese — Vacancies in the General Assembly. Background here.
  • HCR 1002, Marshall and Suckla — Limit Election of Legislators Who Fill Vacancies. Background here.
  • HB 1100, Luck — Requirements for Filling Certain Vacancies in Offices

1:30 p.m., Senate Judiciary Committee, Old Supreme Court

  • HB 1116, Pelton R. and Ball — DOC Search Court Records Before Offender Release
  • HB 1298, Exum and Michaelson Jenet — Judicial Performance Commissions
  • HB 1290, Mullica — Transit Worker Assault & Funding for Training

TUESDAY, APRIL 8

7:30 a.m., House Appropriations Committee, room 271. NOTE: because this is the committee of reference for these bills, public testimony is allowed. In addition, the House will split into its party caucuses and meet with each caucus’s Joint Budget Committee member to review the bills. That may be Tuesday or Wednesday.

  • SB 206, Bird — 2025-26 Long Bill. Background on this and orbitals here and here.
  • SB 207, Sirota and Taggart — Repeal Certain Rodent Pest Control Statutes
  • SB 208, Bird and Sirota — DOC Inmate Phone Costs
  • SB 209, Sirota and Taggart — Offender Refuse Community Corrections Placement
  • SB 210, Bird and Sirota — Repeal Approp Requirement
  • SB 211, Sirota and Taggart — Dept of Corrections Budgeting Reports
  • SB 212, Taggart and Bird — Temporary Inmate Transfer
  • SB 213, Sirota and Taggart — Broadband Infrastructure Cash Fund Transfer
  • SB 214, Sirota and Taggart — Healthy School Meals for All Program
  • SB 215, Bird and Taggart — Repealing CO Student Leaders Institute
  • SB 216, Sirota and Taggart — Eliminate Reprinting of Education Laws
  • SB 217, Bird and Sirota — Repeal Computer Science Ed Grant Prog
  • SB 218, Sirota and Bird — Permissible CDE Uses of Sch Transformation Grants
  • SB 219, Bird and Taggart — Repeal Colorado Career Advisor Training Program
  • SB 220, Sirota and Taggart — Accelerated Coll Opportunity Exam Fee Grant Prog
  • SB 221, Bird and Taggart — Sch Dist Reporting Additional Mill Levy Revenue
  • SB 222, Sirota and Taggart — Repeal Proficiency Tests Administered by Schools
  • SB 223, Sirota and Bird — Mill Levy Equalization & Institute Charter Schs
  • SB 224, Bird and Taggart — Repeal Reqmnt for By Colorado App
  • SB 225, Bird and Taggart — Limited Gaming Fund Distribution
  • SB 226, Bird and Taggart — Extending Spinal & Related Med Prog
  • SB 227, Bird and Sirota — Early Intervention Program Funding for FY 2024-25
  • SB 228, Bird and Sirota — Enterprise Disability Buy-in Premiums
  • SB 229, Bird and Taggart — Reimbursement for Community Health Workers
  • SB 230, Bird and Taggart — College Opportunity Fund Program
  • SB 231, Bird and Sirota–Repeal Inclusive Higher Ed Act
  • SB 232, Bird and Taggart — Repeal Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program
  • SB 233, Sirota and Taggart — Repeal Colorado Sch of Mines Performance Contract
  • SB 234, Sirota and Taggart — FY 2024-25 Supplemental Approps & Student Fin Aid
  • SB 235, Bird and Taggart — Emergency Temporary Care for Children Funding
  • SB 236, Sirota and Taggart — Consolidation of Crisis Response Services
  • SB 237, Sirota and Taggart — Repeal Behavioral Health Voucher Program
  • SB 238, Sirota and Taggart — Repeal School Mental Health Screening Act
  • SB 239, Sirota and Taggart — Nonattorney Access to Court Data
  • SB 240, Bird and Taggart — Electronic Discovery in Criminal Cases Task Force
  • SB 241, Sirota and Taggart — Deposit Bond Forfeitures in Judicial Fund
  • SB 242, Sirota and Taggart — Division Unemployment Insurance Funding Mechanism
  • SB 243, Bird and Sirota — Revert Appropriated General Fund Money From CDLE
  • SB 244, Sirota and Taggart — Reduce State Funding Assistant Dist Atty Salaries
  • SB 245, Sirota and Bird — Housing Dev Grant Fund Admin Costs
  • SB 246, Bird and Sirota — Elim Gray & Black Market Marijuana Grant Prog
  • SB 247, Bird and Taggart — Tuition Waiver & Colorado National Guard Members
  • SB 248, Bird and Taggart — Repeal Lease Savings Transfer to Cap Const Fund
  • SB 249, Taggart and Bird — Repeal Annual Gen Fund Transfer to Revolving Fund
  • SB 250, Bird and Taggart — Repeal Disordered Eating Prevention Program
  • SB 251, Bird and Sirota — Repeal Kidney Disease Prevention Ed Task Force
  • SB 252, Bird and Taggart — Repeal Radiation Advisory Committee
  • SB 253, Sirota and Taggart — Remove Fee Reversion Animal Feeding Operations
  • SB 254, Bird and Taggart — Transfer Stationary Sources Control Fund
  • SB 255, Bird and Taggart — Transfer to Hazardous Substance Response Fund
  • SB 256, Bird and Sirota — Funds for Support of Digital Trunked Radio Sys
  • SB 257, Bird and Taggart — Mod Gen Fund Transfers to State Hwy Fund
  • SB 258, Bird and Sirota — Temporarily Reduce Road Safety Surcharge
  • SB 259, Bird and Taggart — Elim Destroyed Prop Tax Reimbursement Prog
  • SB 260, Bird and Taggart — Repeal CO Household Financial Recovery Pilot Prog
  • SB 261, Bird and Sirota — Property Tax Deferral Program Administration
  • SB 262, Bird and Taggart — Changes to Money in the Capital Construction Fund
  • SB 263, Bird and Taggart — Spending Authority Statutes
  • SB 264, Bird and Sirota — Cash Fund Transfers to the General Fund
  • SB 265, Bird and Taggart — Change Cash Funds to Subject to Annual Approp  
  • SB 266, Sirota and Taggart — Repeal Statutory Appropriation Requirements
  • SB 267, Sirota and Taggart — Eliminate Roll-forward Auth Util Line Item
  • SB 268, Bird and Sirota — Changes to Money in the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund
  • SB 269, Sirota and Taggart — Transfer to Infra Investment & Jobs Act Cash Fund
  • SB 270, Bird and Sirota — Enterprise Nursing Facility Provider Fees

1:30 p.m. House Health & Human Services Committee, room 112

  • HB 1146, Bird and Woog — Juvenile Detention Bed Cap
  • SB 164, Jackson and Willford — Opioid Antagonist Availability & State Bd of Hlth
  • SB 152, Garcia Sander and Feret — Health-Care Practitioner ID Requirements

1:30 p.m. House Judiciary Committee, room 107

  • HB 1067, DeGraaf — Criminal Asset Forfeiture Act (FOR ACTION ONLY)
  • HB 1304, Froelich and Soper — Extension of Restitution Deadlines (FOR ACTION ONLY)
  • HB 1171, Bird and Boesenecker — Possession of Weapon by Previous Offender Crimes
  • HB 1276, Soper and Bird — Ct Actions Related to Failure to Appear in Ct

1:30 p.m., House Transportation, Housing & Local Government Committee, LSB-A

  • SB 184, Ricks — Sunset HOA Information & Resource Center
  • SB 175, Boesenecker and Mauro — Sunset Bill Towing Task Force

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9

The House will either be caucusing on SB 206 and the orbitals on this day, or take up those bills on second reading debate. 

1:30 p.m., Senate Judiciary Committee, Old Supreme Court

  • SB 134, Snyder — Uniform Guardianship & Conservatorship Act
  • HB 1031, Roberts and Pelton B. — Law Enforcement Whistleblower Protection

THURSDAY, APRIL 10

Upon adjournment, Senate Finance Committee, room 357

  • SB 274, Rodriguez and Lundeen — Amend Delivery Reqmnts Wine Direct Shipping

1:30 p.m., Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee, room 352

  • HB 1180, Bright and Roberts — Prohibiting Pet Animal Sales in Public Spaces
  • HB 1283, Marchman and Liston — Wild Horse Project Mgmt & Immunocontraception

1:30 p.m., Senate Health & Human Services Committee, room 352

  • HB 1270, Kirkmeyer and Daugherty — Patients’ Right to Try Individualized Treatments

1:30 p.m., Senate Local Government & Housing Committee, room 357

  • HB 1108, Kirkmeyer and Bridges — Prohibitions in Rental Agreements Due to Death
  • HB 1219, Mullica — -Reqmnts for Better Understanding Metro Dist
  • HB 1208, Amabile and Daugherty — Local Govs Tip Offsets for Tipped Employees. Background here.

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