Committee hears wide support for bill to create indoor air‑quality task force for highly impacted communities

Indoor air quality drew sustained testimony Tuesday as public‑health, environmental‑justice and scientific groups urged the Joint Committee on Public Health to advance House Bill 24‑27 and Senate Bill 15‑46.

The bills would create a state task force to develop statutory and regulatory recommendations to identify, monitor and remediate indoor air pollution and mold in high‑risk buildings such as schools, long‑term care facilities and public housing. Witnesses said gaps in standards, enforcement and agency capacity currently leave residents — particularly in environmental‑justice communities — at risk.

The National and community stakes: The bill “establishes a task force to bring together all the relevant stakeholders to develop a statutory and regulatory framework to identify, monitor, and remediate indoor air pollution and indoor mold contamination,” said Paulina Muratore, director of transportation justice and infrastructure at the Conservation Law Foundation. Muratore said the task force would also identify…