House Health & Human Services

Wednesday, March 18, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

A marathon Health & Human Services hearing killed Rep. Bob Marshall's ambitious Hospital Funding bill — which would have asked voters for alcohol and marijuana taxes to build mental-health commitment beds — on a fractured 7-6 vote, even as the committee advanced provider-notice, worker-heat and public-assistance measures. Two bills drew bipartisan or party-line dissent; two passed unanimously.

Key Actions

·Carrier to Notify Provider Material Change ContractPassed

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Notable Quotes

“Colorado in the 1960s had around 2,000 mental health beds. We now have four times the population and we have several hundred. And it's not like these people have disappeared. They're on our streets, they're in our jails and we know that.”
Bob Marshall — The sponsor's core case for the failed bill — that Colorado's shrinking mental-health capacity has pushed the seriously ill into jails and streets.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (6)Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Katie Stewart, Lindsay Gilchrist, Brandi Bradley

No (5)Regina English, Dusty Johnson, Dan Woog, Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield

Excused (2)Sheila Lieder, Gretchen Rydin

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (8)Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Lindsay Gilchrist, Karen McCormick, Sheila Lieder

No (5)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Dusty Johnson, Dan Woog

Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction

Yes (7)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Dusty Johnson, Katie Stewart, Dan Woog, Sheila Lieder

No (6)Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Lindsay Gilchrist

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (10)Mary Bradfield, Katie Stewart, Dan Woog, Carlos Barron, Brandi Bradley, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Dusty Johnson, Karen McCormick, Lindsay Gilchrist

Excused (3)Gretchen Rydin, Regina English, Sheila Lieder

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (13)Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Dusty Johnson, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Dan Woog, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist, Carlos Barron

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TranscriptPreview

Okay. The Health and Human Services committee will come to order. Mr. Shidoun, could you please call the roll? Representatives of our own. Present. Bradfield. Here. Bradley. Which button? I'm just kidding. Here. English. Here. Frey. Here. Hamrick. Here. Johnson. Here. McCormick. Here. Ryden. Excuse. Stuart. Here. Wook. Here. Leader. Excuse. Madam Chair. Present. Thank you everyone for joining today. We have many bills on our docket today. We're going to start with House. This isn't the right. It's going to be fun. Okay. We are going to start with the sunset Medical Practice Act 1307 and then 1241, 1301 and then Senate Bill 110 and then 1272. So that is the plan for today. We'll have two minute witness testimony and 10 minute panels. And with that I'll turn it over to Rep. McCormack to chair while I go over there. Thanks everyone. It. All right, we have our bill sponsors in front of us. Who would like to begin? Representative Gilchrist. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you committee members. I'm proud to present House Bill 1307 today and I want to thank my coprime for her work on this as well and for her provider experience that she…

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