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Senate Finance killed two marijuana-adjacent bills on the same afternoon — the sponsors of both a cannabis-testing overhaul and a hemp-THC beverage measure asked to shelve their own work after failing to reach consensus — while advancing a special-session revenue fix on a party-line vote and clearing the annual water projects bill unanimously.
Key Actions
·2026 Water Projects BillPassed
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Notable Quotes
“What is lacking here is not interest. What is lacking is not expertise, legal analysis. What is lacking is political will.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (8)Adrienne Benavidez, Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Chris Kolker, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder, Janice Marchman, Cathy Kipp
Excused (1)Kyle Mullica
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (6)Adrienne Benavidez, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Marc Snyder, Janice Marchman, Cathy Kipp
No (3)Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Cleave Simpson
Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (8)Adrienne Benavidez, Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder, Janice Marchman
Excused (1)Cathy Kipp
Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (9)Adrienne Benavidez, Scott Bright, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder, Janice Marchman, Cathy Kipp, Lisa Frizell
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Okay. Good afternoon. Welcome to Senate Finance. Ms. Rudabish, will you please take the roll? Senators Benavides. Here. Wright. Here. Brazil. President Holker. Here. Simpson, Snyder. Here. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Thank you very much. And I'm going to pass the gavel to Vice Chair Marchman. Very good. First up today we have Senate Bill 161 with Senators Snyder and Mullica. Colleagues. Who would like to begin? Would you like to begin, Senator Snyder? Well, thank you Madam Chair and thank you committee. We're here to Discuss Senate Bill 161. And by way of background, this was actually a bill title pulled by former Senator Daphne Michaelson Gennay and my co prime here, Senator Mullica and I decided to pick this up rather late in the session and see what we could find out and what we could learn and what we might be able to do. So given that there are really two intents, two purposes for Senate Bill 161, one is to address the lack of vigorous testing that we have been occurring here in Colorado over the last decade or so. And the idea was that we need to get a more of a public health focus…
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