Colorado House introduces bills on behavioral health, reading assessments, procurement and international relations; committee assignments announced

The Colorado House of Representatives introduced several bills and resolutions and announced committee assignments during a floor session. Representative Espinosa and Representative Bridal, joined by Senator Ekstrom, introduced House Bill 13 25 to update statutory references to an amended definition of “eligible person.”

The measure was assigned to the Committee on State Civic Military and Veterans Affairs. Representative Espinosa and Representative Bradley, with Senator Bull listed as a co-sponsor, introduced House Bill 13 26 to update terminology related to behavioral health safety-net providers; that measure was assigned to the Committee on Health and Human Services.

Senate Bill 200, sponsored by Senator Kolker and Senator Molkoff with Representatives Hamrick and Soper listed as house sponsors, was introduced to encourage early elementary academic success by updating methods for assessing certain skills, identifying struggling readers and supporting students with dyslexia. The bill was assigned to the Committee on Education.

A measure described as “Rootnell” and co-sponsored by Senator Sennon and Senator Weissman was introduced as a resolution concerning the federal government’s handling of U.S. military history; House joint resolution 10 29 was assigned to the Committee on State Civic Military and Veterans Affairs.

House joint resolution 10 30, by Representative Winter and Representative Bacon with Senator Mullica listed as a sponsor, addresses government procurement of products with forced-labor components and was laid over one day under House rules. The House received a message proposing designation of 03/17/2025 as Colorado Aerospace Day via Senate joint resolution 10 (sponsors Senators Bridges and Bazely; Representatives Armagas and Joseph as house sponsors); that resolution was also laid over one day under House rules. Senate joint resolution 16, by Senators Liston and Henriksen and Representatives Burton Hartsock and others, concerning strengthening sister-state relations with Taiwan and reaffirming support for Taiwan’s international participation, was laid over one day under House rules as well.

Clerks and the reviser’s office were noted as preparing reports and printing the introduced measures in the house journal, and the speaker directed that committee assignments and messages be printed in the journal. No floor debate on the substantive merits of these measures was recorded in the provided transcript segments, and no formal floor votes on the listed measures were reported in the session excerpts.

Several introduced items were explicitly noted as being laid over one day under House rules; those procedural holds were announced on the floor and will appear in the journal.