House Finance

Thursday, February 12, 2026·59m·▶ Watch / Listen

House Finance rerouted a collective bargaining bill it never should have received and advanced a long-running homeless-donation tax credit toward Appropriations, with a lone Republican no vote on each and a withdrawn TABOR-trigger amendment leaving the fiscal-guardrail debate for another day.

Key Actions

·Worker Protection Collective BargainingPassed

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Notable Quotes

“And just as an example, in 2024, the total number of donations was over 10,000 donations for a total value of over $25 million. And the tax credit authorized by the state was a little over $6 million. So this is a, you know, four to one leveraging impact through this tax credit, which is an incredible return on investment for our state.”
Karen McCormick — The sponsor's central case for renewing the credit: modest state revenue reduction generating far larger private giving.

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Votes

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (10)Andrew Boesenecker, Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Anthony Hartsook, Bob Marshall, Scott Slaugh, Ron Weinberg, Yara Zokaie, Steven Woodrow, Brianna Titone

No (1)Ryan Gonzalez

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (10)Andrew Boesenecker, Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Ryan Gonzalez, Bob Marshall, Scott Slaugh, Ron Weinberg, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow

No (1)Anthony Hartsook

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TranscriptPreview

The committee will come to order. Ms. Culver, please call the roll. Representative Spacenecker? Here. Caldwell is subbed out. Hold on. Camacho? Here. Garcia. Here. Gonzalez. Here. Hartsuk. Here. Marshall. Here. Sloth. Here. Weinberg. Here. Okay. Here. Tatone? Here. Mr. Chair. Here. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to substitution day in the House Finance committee. We have two bills under consideration. House Bill 10:05 for action only, followed by 10:15 bill sponsors on 1005. Would you like to make any comments before we vote? Okay, great. So, just for those in the room and listening at home, this bill was incorrectly routed to our committee under the routing memo. It should have gone to straight to the committee on Appropriations like it did last year. And so we are going to vote to reroute it to approps a proper motion. Would route 1005 to appropriations. Madam Vice Chair, I move House Bill 1005 to appropriations. There's been a motion by the Vice Chair. A second by Representative Camacho. Please poll the committee. Representative Space Necker. Yes. Camacho. Yes. Garcia. Gonzalez. No. Artsug? Yes. Marshall. Yes. Sloth. Yes. Weinberg. Yes. Zokai. Yes. Tatone. Yep. Mr. Chair. Yes. That passes on a vote…

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