The committee advanced HB 26-1045 (Disabilities Housing Protections) to the full House on a 9-3 vote over objections from three members who wanted more stakeholder negotiation, introduced a fire suppression sunset bill with unanimous support, and received an informational update from the Middle Income Housing Authority on its first $18.6 million bond issuance.
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Representative Richardson argued the original HUD guidance document was explicitly described as not expanding or altering housing providers' obligations under the Fair Housing Act, and expressed concern that codifying a subset into statute could trigger presumptions of violations carrying fines of $5,000 to $50,000 under CADA, and asked whether state agencies could republish the guidance without making it force of law. Representative Clifford countered that codifying it is 'a faster, cleaner, easier, more straightforward way' and that legislative authority would be required for agency rulemaking in this area.
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“If this is not extended, then we have no method for ensuring that the contractors working on these systems are qualified. We have no method for ensuring that the folks who are inspecting the systems are qualified or meet minimum standards. But more than that, the areas of the state that don't have fire marshals, like Fire Marshal Grimes or the members of fmac, they will not have the support or the expertise to look at these systems, to review them, to make sure they're installed correctly, because that's the Division of Fire Prevention and Control provides that service to those jurisdictions that can't do it themselves.”
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Sign in to subscribeRepresentatives Basenecker. Here. Brooks. Excused. Jackson. Excused. Lindsey. Here. Wynn. President Pascal. Here. Phillips. Yes. Richardson. Here. Sukla. Here. Lasco. Excused. Weinberg. Excused. Stewart. Here. Madam Chair. Present. If we could bring up Mr. Singh and we're going to do. I'm going to read through this complicated script. On the sunset review. Our drafter from OLS will attend. And that's Ms. Myers. And we are holding sunset hearing today on fire suppression registration and inspection program. A representative from OLLS is here to present the sunset review process. So we'll go. Sorry, I should have called up Ms. Myers first. But anyway it goes Ms. Myers and then Mr. Singh. So the we're going to talk today about fire suppression registration and inspection program. The sunset hearing concerning the continuation of fire suppression registration inspection program that is held in accordance with the Colorado Revised statutes. This is the book we will be going after and if you don't have a copy, Mr. Gravy has extras. And the purpose of this hearing is to determine if its regulation is the least restrictive regulation consistent with the public interest. This determination is based on factors specified in 23, 34, 104 of…
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