The Colorado House passed three bills on second reading — including the contested HB 1001 (housing on qualifying properties) and HB 1038 (county commissioner redistricting) — after hours of floor amendments, repeated Republican efforts to carve out home rule counties and rural jurisdictions, and sharp rhetoric about local control, infrastructure capacity, and the word 'integrity.'
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Representative Luck argued that including 'integrity' in the title 'County Commissioner Redistricting Integrity Act' implied Weld, Arapaho, and El Paso counties had acted without integrity, while Representative Bottoms pointed out that El Paso County's 2023 redistricting was recognized by the Democratic state attorney general and signed off by both major parties. Representative Clifford countered that he was 'not sure why on earth we would ever want to remove the word integrity from law.' Sponsor Paschal said he had nothing but respect for El Paso County's elections department but kept the word because he believes in integrity in the process.
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“Yesterday marked the 10th year that the Colorado Bureau Investigation has hosted Missing Persons Day at our state Capitol. It's marked on February 4th because that's the day Kelsey Schelling went missing in 2013. Her killer was caught and convicted eight years later. However, there are 676 people since January 1st of 2025 that are still missing.”
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Sign in to subscribeAmen. The house will come to order. The pledge of allegiance will be led by payton arndt, mercy mccracken, lincoln degenhart from weldon valley school, waldona, colorado. Guest of represent guests of. Representative johnson, Mr. Schieble, please call the roll. Representatives bacon, right there. Barone. Basenecker. Bottoms. Bradfield. Bradley. Here. Brooks. Brown. Caldwell. Camacho. Carter. Clifford. Degraff. Duran. English espinoza. Ferre. Flannel. Froelich. Garcia. Representative garcia is excused. Garcia, sander. Gilchrist. Goldstein. Gonzalez. Hamrick. Hartsook. Jackson. Johnson. Joseph. Kelty. Leader is excused. Lindsay. Representative lindsey is excused. Luck. Lukens. Representative lukens. Mabry. Marshall. Martinez. Morrow. Mccormick. Wynn. Pascal. Phillip. Richardson. Ricks. Representative ricks is excused. Rutinel. Ryden. Sirota. Representative sirota is excused. Slaw. Rep. Slaw. Excused. Smith. Soper. Rep. Soper is excused. Stuart k. Stuart r. Story. Representative story. Sukla. Taggart. Tatone. Rep. Valdez is excused. Velasco. Weinberg. Wilford. Winter. Woodrow. Woog, zokai. And. Madam speaker, With 58 present, seven excused. We do have a quorum. Representative Stewart. Thank you. Madam Speaker, I move this morning that the journal of Wednesday, February 4, 2026 be approved as corrected by the Chief Clerk. Members, you've heard the motion that the Journal be approved as corrected by the Chief Clerk. All those…
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