After roughly 60 witnesses, a contentious debate over federal immunity doctrines and taxpayer costs, and adoption of amendment L001, the committee advanced the bill to the Appropriations Committee on a 5-2 vote.
Senator Carson argued that civil remedies 'don't go to trial. In most cases, they don't get sorted out... the reality is that these end up being settled settlements. And who pays for those settlements?... The taxpayers pay for them.' Senator Gonzalez responded: 'I think if you are in fact concerned about costs, I would encourage you to ask civil immigration enforcement officers to stop violating the rights of Coloradans, which is what this bill aims to do.'
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“I think if you are in fact concerned about costs, I would encourage you to ask civil immigration enforcement officers to stop violating the rights of Coloradans, which is what this bill aims to do.”
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Sign in to subscribeThey will come to order on Monday 2nd February. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with the roll call. Senators Carson, President Gonzalez. Here. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. Here. Zamora Wilson. Here. Wiseman. Here. Mr. Chair. I'm sorry, I should have said the other way. Not yet, not yet, not yet. I'm here. Jump again. One way or another, everyone's here. All right. For the record, we have one item on our agenda today, that is consideration of Senate Bill 5. Thanks everyone for bearing with us. We had sort of an uncustomarily long floor calendar on the Senate floor that delayed our usual 1:30 start. Because we have a large number of folks signed up to testify today, around 60. Our large hearing protocols will be in effect. What that means is a set of time limits intended to try to make sure that everyone can be heard here in the committee today. And hopefully we don't go too late and ask people to take even more time out of your days. So initially, the sponsors, that will be Senator Gonzalez and I will make our opening comments to the committee not to exceed 15 minutes. There will then be…
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