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House introduces a slate of bills, refers finance measures to appropriations and adjourns to Feb. 13
Summary
The House received committee reports and introduced multiple bills on topics including good neighbor authority, employer demographic disclosure, air pollution advisory panels, property-tax limits and coal transition funding. Senate Joint Resolution 4 was laid over; the chamber adjourned to Friday, Feb. 13, at 9 a.m.
The House met in session for routine business, heard committee reports and introduced a set of bills and a resolution before adjourning until Friday, Feb. 13, at 9 a.m.
An unidentified speaker read a report from the Committee on Finance that "after consideration on the merits the committee recommends the following," stating that House bills 1005 and 1015 should be referred to the Committee on Appropriations with a favorable recommendation. The record of that report and other routine entries was ordered printed in the journal.
Lawmakers introduced a series of measures and the committees to which they were assigned. Highlights include House Bill 1205 (Representatives Velasco and Morrow), addressing changes to state law to reflect federal expansion of good neighbor authority agreements, and House Bill 1208 (Representative Velasco; Senators Linstead and Exum), to continue a compliance advisory panel to the Air Pollution Control Division in the Department of Public Health and Environment and to implement recommendations from the 2025 sunset report by the Department of Regulatory Agencies. Representative Jackson introduced House Bill 1207 concerning employer accountability through disclosure of demographic workforce data; Representative Sukla introduced House Bill 1209 proposing a temporary decrease in statutory limits on property tax revenue a taxing entity may raise.
The chamber also received introductions of Senate bills, including measures on cohabitation and bigamy (Senate Bill 13), changes to early childhood infrastructure and council responsibilities (Senate Bill 19), provisions related to coal transition communities and use of just transition funds (Senate Bill 52), and a proposal to broaden eligibility for the Colorado Agricultural Future Loan Program (Senate Bill 64). Senate Joint Resolution 4 — recognizing the week of Sept. 20–26, 2026, as Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week — was laid over until Monday, March 2, 2026.
Near the close of the session, the Madam majority leader moved that "the House stand in adjournment until Friday, February 13 at 9AM." The presiding officer then announced, "The House is adjourned until Friday, February 13 at 9AM." The transcript shows the adjournment was taken without a recorded roll-call vote in the provided segments.
What happens next: the bills introduced will be considered by the committees to which they were assigned; no further action on substantive measures is recorded in this transcript segment.
