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House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources

Thursday, January 22, 2026·42m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources committee opened its sunset-review season by moving to scrap a veterinary pharmaceutical panel that has met just five times in a decade and to keep alive Colorado's 26-member Forest Health Council over a bid to put it on a five-year leash.

Key Actions

·Sunset review process overviewAction

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Notable Quotes

One important thing I always like to point out is that my office conducts the reviews. We do not work for the agencies that are under review.

Brian Tobias (Colorado Office of Policy, Research and Regulatory Reform, DORA) · witnessTobias underscoring the independence of DORA's sunset reviewers, who evaluate agencies without answering to them.

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TranscriptPreview
All right. House agriculture, water and natural resources committee will come to order. Ms. Kelly, please call the roll. Representatives garcia sander. Present. Goldstein. Here. Johnson. Here. Lindsey. Here. Lukens. Excused. Martinez. Here. Smith. Here. Stewart. Here. Story. Here. Sukla. Excused. Winter. Here. Morrow. Here. Madam chair. Here. And welcome to the committee. Representative garcia sanders. Ann goldstein. We're glad you're here. This is garcia sander. Oh, dear. It's going to have a reverberation. Goldstein. Old. Here. Johnson. Here. Lindsey. Here. Lukens. Excused. Martinez. Here. Smith. Here. Stuart. Here. Story. Here. Here. Here. Excused. Winter. Here. Morrow. Here. Madam chair. Here. And welcome to the committee. Representative garcia sanders. Ann goldstein. We're glad you're here. This is. And also happy to report that Representative Lukens has Chairman joined the committee today. Not. She was here previously, too. So, anyway, thank you all for being here for our first committee meeting of the year. Today we are hearing two sunset reviews. The Sunset Veterinary Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and the Sunset Forest Process Forest Health Council. We are postponing the Food Systems Advisory Council to another day. But first off, because this is our first sunset hearing and there's going to be
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