Colorado Senate receives House message on SJR 16, hears long series of House bills and adjourns

The Colorado Senate recessed its business after receiving a message that the House had adopted Senate Joint Resolution 16 and then listened as the clerk read a long sequence of House bills covering appropriations, cash-fund transfers and program changes.

The chamber’s presiding officer announced the message from the House that SJR 16 had been adopted and returned to the Senate. The clerk then proceeded to read titles and brief descriptions of numerous House bills addressing matters such as broadband infrastructure funding from the Broadband Infrastructure Cash Fund, appropriations for early childhood prevention services at the Department of Early Childhood, appropriations and funding direction for school food programs and the Healthy School Meals for All initiative, adjustments to higher education funding mechanisms and transfers from the Limited Gaming Fund, among many other measures.

The clerk’s reading also included bills that would create or repeal cash funds and programs (for example, provisions referring to the Affordable Housing Financing Fund, the Colorado National Guard Tuition Waiver Program, the Wildfire Resilient Homes Grant Program, and transfers from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund) and a number of items explicitly labeled as appropriations or reductions to appropriations.

After the bill introductions, the majority leader moved that the Senate adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. The presiding officer called for the ayes and declared the motion carried; the Senate adjourned to that date and time.

This floor session consisted primarily of formal bill introductions by title and brief descriptive language; no committee debate or recorded roll-call vote on the bills was taken on the floor during the reading. A full list of the bills read and the verbatim titles appear in the session transcript.