Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources
Colorado's Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee confirmed five nominees to the Colorado Tourism Office board by consent, then postponed indefinitely — killing — SB26-065, the SEED Act, which would have shifted neonicotinoid-treated seeds from automatic to need-based use over sharp objections from farm-district senators.
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“Just one coated corn seed has enough poison to kill a quarter million bees. That's why Colorado beekeepers, some of whom you'll get to hear from today, lost 42% of their colonies last winter, making it the worst year on record.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood afternoon. The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee will come to order on February 26th. Ms. Jackson, please call the roll. Senators Catlin? Here. Henriksen. Here. Kipp? Here. Pelton B. Here. Pelton R. Here. Wallace. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, we have full attendance. Welcome, Senator Wallace. Thank you for subb and appreciate everybody being here. We have some confirmations on our agenda and then we will get to the one bill that we have on our agenda. So with that all, I would invite the confirmation hearing for the Colorado Tourism Office Board of directors and we'll have director Wolf come and introduce our nominees. It's on the table where the cord plugs into the table there. That little. There we go. Fantastic. My name is Tim Wolf. I'm the director of the Colorado Tourism Office. The owed admission statement is to empower all to thrive in Colorado's economy. And the tourism office is a division of oetat. And our mission is to empower the tourism industry to inspire the world to explore Colorado respectfully and responsibly. We do that through a number of pillars. One of our pillars is economic development and making sure that the…
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