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Caucus amendments reduce funding for environmental justice and related CDPHE programs
Summary
Multiple amendments would eliminate or cut funding for an environmental justice ombudsman, health equity office and health‑disparities grants in CDPHE; sponsors argued the cuts free funds for higher‑priority line items.
Senators presented several amendments targeting environmental justice and health‑equity funding inside the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE).
Sponsor Senator Pelton introduced an amendment that “pulls the funding from that, eliminates that, so general, goes into general fund reserve” when describing the environmental justice ombudsman position. Senator Frizzell and others proposed…
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