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Conference Committee on HB26-1038

Friday, April 10, 2026·10m·▶ Watch / Listen

A first conference committee on House Bill 26-1038 accepted the Senate's version and layered on new guardrails for Colorado's Independent Redistricting Committee, adopting its report 4-2 over objections from two members who never backed the underlying measure.

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·County Commissioner RedistrictingNo vote

Notable Quotes

Basically, where in, should someone want to stack a independent, quote unquote redistricting committee, that all it would take was having somebody go change their party affiliation right before that is what this came out of.

Chad CliffordClifford's explanation of the loophole the three-year affiliation requirement is meant to close — the core substantive rationale for the added guardrails.

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The first conference committee on House Bill 26, 1038 will come to order. Ms. King, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives. Clifford. Here. Linnell. Here. Rich. Here. Wallace. Here. Snyder. Here. Madam Chair? Here. Forgot that was me. All right, so we are here to discuss the changes that we are making for 1038. So, Madam Chair. Yes. I don't think Senator Wallace has gotten the handout. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. All right. Thank you, Senator. Thank you. Perfect. Okay. So we had some changes that were made in the Senate, and we're not here to dispute those changes, we're here to accept them. But we wanted to make some additional changes, and those have to do with putting a little bit more guardrails on the Independent Redistricting Committee. And so while we fixed a typo, that's the first thing in the report. And then we have made changes such that the members of the Independent Redistricting Committee. There's a requirement for a balance between Republican, Democrat and Independent. More specifically, the largest party and the second largest party. We put in a requirement that you must be affiliated in those positions for at least three years previous to
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