Senate Finance

Tuesday, February 17, 2026·47m·▶ Watch / Listen

Senate Finance cleared a slate of financial-services and property-tax board appointments and advanced SB26-046, an assessor-backed 'good government' package syncing exemption deadlines and rolling back the property-appeal window from June 8 to June 1 over a lone citizen's objection that the change shortens taxpayers' time to appeal.

Key Actions

·Property Tax Administrative ProceduresPassed

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Notable Quotes

“85% of agent appeals are filed in the last week, regardless of when the deadline occurs. So we believe that moving the date by one week was not the right solution.”
Brenda Donas (Weld County Assessor, Colorado Assessors Association) · witness — The assessors' central data argument that adding a week to the appeal window did not actually benefit taxpayers, justifying the rollback to June 1.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (8)Matt Ball, Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Julie Gonzales, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder, Cathy Kipp

Excused (1)Janice Marchman

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TranscriptPreview

Good afternoon. Welcome to Senate Finance. Ms. Riedebush, will you please take the roll? Senators Ball. Here. Wright. Here. Frazelle. President Gonzalez. Present. Mullica. Here. Simpson. President Snyder. Here. Marchman. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Everybody, welcome to Senate Finance. This morning or this afternoon because it's been a long day. So we are going to start by confirmation hearing for this Financial Services Board. If Mark Valente, Mickey Freeman and Shawn Davis will please come forward. And I do believe that Shaun Davis is remote. So we will start with Mr. Valente to introduce. And I will just tell you, we sort of have this really annoying hazing ritual that we set everybody through. It's a little gray button that there's hopefully an arrow next to that will make your microphone go on. Okay, Please proceed. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Chair. My name is Mark Valente. I'm the Commissioner of the Division of Financial Services as part of the Department of Regulatory Agencies. We at the Division of Financial Services were the primary regulator for Colorado State chartered credit unions and savings and loan institutions. And first of all, I'd like to introduce one of our board members for the…

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