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House committee backs fallen firefighter license plate; $25 minimum donation added
Summary
The House Finance Committee voted to advance House Bill 1103, creating a Colorado fallen firefighter license plate with a $25 minimum donation to a qualified Colorado nonprofit; the bill was moved to appropriations 11–1 after extensive testimony from survivors, firefighters and fiscal staff.
The House Finance Committee voted to send House Bill 1103 — a measure to create a Colorado "fallen firefighter" specialty license plate — to the Committee on Appropriations after sponsors and a long panel of witnesses described the plate's symbolic and fundraising roles.
Sponsor Representative Marie Richardson and co-sponsor Representative Alex Velasco said the plate honors volunteer and career firefighters who died in the line of duty and provides families a way to display that service without losing the firefighter plate when a member dies or is no longer active.
"It establishes a fallen firefighter license plate available to the family of the firefighter lost in the line of duty and…
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