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Colorado House receives committee reports, refers dozens of bills to committees and adjourns until Feb. 5
Summary
At a brief floor session, the Colorado House received committee reports recommending referrals, introduced and assigned scores of bills to standing committees across topics including behavioral health, mobile-home taxation and public-access environmental records, and adjourned until Thursday, Feb. 5 at 9 a.m.
The Colorado House convened for a short floor session on Feb. 4, receiving committee reports, introducing a lengthy slate of bills for referral to standing committees and adjourning until Thursday, Feb. 5 at 9 a.m.
Committee reports dominated the opening proceedings. Schiebel presented recommendations from standing committees, noting that multiple House bills and Senate bills were to be referred to the Committee of the Whole or to specified standing committees with favorable recommendation; the Committee on Judiciary recommended amendments to a bill and its referral to the Committee on Appropriations. The chief clerk announced that the printing report and other messages from the Senate and the Reviser's office would be printed in the House journal.
Lawmakers then moved through introductions of dozens of measures. The bills announced covered a broad range of policy areas: modifications to prepaid wireless telecommunication service charges (House Bill 11 15); procedures related to individuals with behavioral health disorders (House Bill 11 16); temporary hospitality-event permits that would authorize the consumption of marijuana at permitted events (House Bill 11 17); the proposed creation of a Colorado–Ireland International Trade Commission (House Bill 11 18); property-tax treatment and mill levy provisions for land and improvements (House Bill 11 19); mobile-home taxation and changes to redemption periods and lien-sale procedures (House Bill 11 20); public accessibility requirements for stationary source emissions records (House Bill 11 21); and proposals on mandated health-care coverage for hormone‑replacement therapy and other health and education items (examples include House Bills 11 22 and 11 36). Each bill was assigned to the committee named during its introduction for further consideration; most were sent to finance, health and human services, judiciary, transportation, housing and local government, or energy and environment committees as announced on the floor.
Senate Joint Resolution 9, recognizing Missing Persons Day, was introduced and laid over for one day under House rules.
Near the close of the session, the Majority Leader moved, "I move that the House stand in adjournment until Thursday, February 5 at 9AM," and the motion carried. "The House is adjourned until Thursday, February fifth at 9AM," the presiding officer announced.
No floor debate on individual bills or recorded roll-call votes on substantive measures were recorded in the session transcript; the day's work consisted of committee reports, bill introductions and the adjournment. The measures announced will receive further consideration in the committees to which they were assigned.
