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Monday, March 23, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Finance Committee advanced three tax-and-finance measures, each drawing a dissent — a housing-authority funding bill, a legacy-giving cleanup bill, and a sprawling omnibus rewrite of Colorado's tax expenditures that survived on a 6-5 vote after sponsors stripped its gold-and-silver provisions before a word of testimony.

Key Actions

·Improved Funding to Support DevelopmentPassed

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Notable Quotes

From our, from our perspective, it's very difficult to see how you make housing more affordable by making it more expensive for everyone else.

Jason Hopfer (witness, Colorado Association of Realtors) · witnessThe Realtors' core objection to the mill-levy provision, capturing the affordability argument against funding housing through property taxes.

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Votes

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (7)Ryan Gonzalez, Rebekah Stewart, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow, Lorena Garcia, Sean Camacho
No (3)Ken DeGraaf, Bob Marshall, Max Brooks
Excused (1)Anthony Hartsook
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (6)Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Rebekah Stewart, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow
No (5)Max Brooks, Ken DeGraaf, Ryan Gonzalez, Anthony Hartsook, Bob Marshall
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (9)Max Brooks, Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Ryan Gonzalez, Bob Marshall, Rebekah Stewart, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow
No (1)Ken DeGraaf
Excused (1)Anthony Hartsook
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TranscriptPreview
Come to order. Please call the roll. Representatives Brooks. President Camacho. Here. Graff. Excused. Garcia. Excused. Gonzalez. Here. Hart. Suck. Excused. Marshall. Here. Stuart. Here. Okay. Here. Tatone. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. Good afternoon everyone. We have three bills up today. We have about 47 witnesses total signed up. So I'm going to limit witness testimony to two minutes with seven minute panels. A note on the final bill that we're going to be hearing, 1289, I announced it at the well, but the bill sponsors are amending out the portion on gold and silver. So if that's what you were here to testify on, just know your voice has been heard loudly and clearly and you know you do not need to come and tell us that we should get rid of that part of the bill because it's coming out okay. With that we're going to start with 1206. Representatives Joseph and recent addition committee member Gonzalez. Nice to see you both. Who wants to go first? Representative Joseph thank you Mr. Chair. Thank you members of the committee. It's a pleasure to present House Bill 1206 before the committee today with Representative Gonzales H HP 1206 is
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