Colorado House receives committee reports, assigns bills on school meals, building codes, crime-lab rules; adjourns until Feb. 20

The Colorado House of Representatives received multiple committee reports and formally referred several bills to standing committees during a brief floor session, then adjourned until Thursday, Feb. 20, at 9 a.m.

Committee reports: Why it matters Committee reports read on the floor recommended amendments and referrals for a series of House bills and a Senate bill, sending several measures to the Committee of the Whole and to appropriations committees for further review. Committee recommendations set the next formal steps for legislation and determine which bills receive detailed committee scrutiny.

What the House announced - The clerk read reports of committees of reference recommending amendments and referrals for a set of House bills (examples read into the record included references to bills with internal cover numbers such as those announced as “House Bill 11 35,” “House Bill 11 61,” and others). Several bills were recommended to the Committee of the Whole, some were amended and referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and others were postponed indefinitely, per the floor announcements.

- The House introduced and assigned newly filed bills to committees: House Bill 12 73 (sponsored by Representatives Base, Eker and Woodrow and Senator Ball), concerning a requirement that certain municipalities modify building codes to allow a five‑story multifamily residential building to be served by a single exit, was assigned to the Committee on Transportation, Housing and Local Government.

- House Bill 12 74 (sponsored by Representative Garcia and Senator Michael Singenais), concerning the Healthy School Meals for All Program, was assigned to the Committee on Education.

- House Bill 12 75 (sponsored by Representatives Soper and Zocai, and Senators Weisman and Frizzell), addressing misconduct by crime‑laboratory employees and creating notice and post‑conviction relief processes for defendants and victims, was assigned to the Committee on Judiciary.

- A measure described on the floor as involving prohibited activity related to semi‑automatic firearms and other related provisions (names read included Ecker and Froelich) was announced; the transcript shows Senate Bill 5 will be assigned to the Committee on Business Affairs and Labor.

- Additional measures announced and committee assignments included: Senate Bill 63 (standards for public‑school library resource policies) to the Committee on Education; Senate Bill 67 (changes to the prosecution fellowship program) to the Committee on Education; and Senate Bill 68 (a voluntary municipal utility election to participate in an unclaimed utility deposits program) to the Committee on Energy and Environment.

Other floor items The chief clerk announced printing reports and that signing of bills, resolutions and memorials would be printed in the House journal. The reviser’s message and other routine floor business also were noted for the journal.

Formal action: adjournment A member moved that the House stand adjourned; the House was adjourned until Thursday, Feb. 20, at 9 a.m., as read on the floor.

What was not decided The floor session recorded committee recommendations and formal referrals; the announcements do not show floor debate on the measures introduced or final passage of those bills during this session. Specific amendment text, fiscal notes or committee reports beyond the titles and destinations were not read into the record on the transcript excerpt provided and are therefore not included here.