House Appropriations
House Appropriations cleared a full slate of bills to the floor, with the sharpest friction over HB26-1138's retail-theft grant program, where Vice Chair Emily Sirota bristled at the Department of Public Safety surfacing extra money in the session's final weeks. Members also celebrated a first-in-the-nation 'artist company' bill and reluctantly advanced painful cuts to the Colorado Works/TANF program.
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“And this situation here with the department all of a sudden discovering in the final weeks of the session that they have another $350,000 to spend. Quite frankly, I'm not sure that I can trust or believe that the number is even just 350,000.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe House Appropriations Committee will come to order. Ms. Shen, please call the roll. Representative Basenecker. Here. Bottoms. Excused. Joseph. Here. McCormick. Here. Richardson. Here. Taggart. Here. Tatone. Still. Here. Lasco. Here. Here. Madam Vice chair. Here. And Mr. Chair. Here. Oh, sorry. I'm here. Thank you. Okay. Committee members, we have a number of bills on our agenda for today. We're going to go a little bit out of order. Oh, sorry. We're going to start with 11:38. Bill sponsors. I understand that you have reworked your amendment slightly and I think also worked with some of the members of the committee to get them additional information. Is that, is that correct? Is there anything else you want to say about the discussion that we had yesterday? No. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, committee. We did take the input from yesterday, try to go back to the department, make sure that the department got back information to the members who needed the. Needed the information. And we have reworked the amendment to revert money back to the general fund. Great. Are there additional? Madam Vice Chair. Thank you. Mr. Chair. I'm assuming this fund is continuously appropriated, but…
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