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Colorado House receives committee reports, introduces multiple bills and adjourns until May 1
Summary
The House heard committee recommendations, referred several bills to relevant committees — including measures on antitrust premerger notification, online learning administration and out-of-network dispute resolution — and adjourned until May 1 at 9 a.m.
The Colorado House met for routine legislative business, received committee reports, introduced several bills and adjourned until May 1 at 9:00 a.m., the presiding officer announced.
The clerk reported a series of committee recommendations. The Committee on Business Affairs and Labor recommended amending Senate Bill 160 and, as amended, referring it to the committee of the whole with a favorable recommendation. The Committee on Finance reported amendments to House Bill 13-26 and recommended that Senate Bill 20 be sent to the Committee on Appropriations. The Committee on Health and Human Services recommended that House Bill 14-25 be referred favorably to the Committee on Finance.
Why it matters: the referrals set the next steps for a slate of measures that would move through committee review before any floor action. Several introduced bills touch on consumer protection, education and environmental policy, which are likely to affect state agency workloads and future appropriations.
The clerk introduced a group of new measures. "House Bill 14-27 by Representative Espinosa, also Senator Snyder, concerning updates to the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act approved by the Uniform Law Commission," was announced and assigned to the Committee on Judiciary. The clerk also introduced House Bill 14-28, a proposal to improve administration of publicly funded programs for students who are not full-time in-person, to require the Department of Education to report on online and part-time enrichment programs, and to authorize a board of cooperative services to administer a statewide supplemental online and blended learning program; that bill was assigned to Appropriations.
Other introductions included Senate Bill 17, concerning out-of-network health care dispute resolution processes (assigned to Health and Human Services); Senate Bill 146, restricting distribution of single-use food service ware (assigned to State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs); Senate Bill 170, creating a task force to study expanding access to effective public schools (Education); Senate Bill 171, about restrictions on disposal of preproduction plastic materials at uncertified solid waste facilities (Energy and Environment); Senate Bill 173, exempting certain teacher training and fitness disciplines from regulation under the Occupational Education Act of 1981 (Education); and Senate Bill 174, prohibiting lead-generation marketing for legal services (Judiciary).
The clerk also introduced House Joint Resolution 10-30 to designate a portion of Colorado Highway 14 in Weld County as Mono and Matt Road; the resolution was laid over one day under House rule.
Procedural items recorded for the journal included signing of bills, resolutions and memorials and delivery of bills to the governor.
The House adjourned after the majority leader moved that it stand in adjournment until Friday, May 1 at 9:00 a.m. The presiding officer declared the House adjourned until that date and time.
Next steps: referred bills will proceed to the committees named by the clerk for hearings and further action; the resolution was laid over for one day under House rule.
