Senate Business, Labor, & Technology

It. The Business, labor and Technology Committee will come to order. Ms. Chapman, will you please poll the committee or call the roll? Senator Catlin. Here. Judah. Present. Liston. Here. Danielson. Excuse. Danielson. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. We have a quorum. We will go ahead and get started with House Bill 1207, which is Senator Kip and Senator Danielson. Senator Kip, feel free to start us off. Thank you, committee, for hearing our bill today. The Women's foundation of Colorado recently released new research showing that women working full time in Colorado earn about 81 cents on every dollar earned by men for every dollar earned by men. And the gaps are even starker for women of color. More than two thirds of households headed by single, black and Hispanic mothers and children under 18 are living at or below 200% of the federal poverty threshold. Medicaid financed more than half of all the births for black, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women. And in retirement, women receive just 65% of the median annual retirement income that men their age $. These numbers tell us there's a serious and uneven equity problem in our…