The Colorado House on Legislative Day 050 passed five bills on second reading covering wildfire coordination, mobile home water quality, distributed energy resources, fatal crash data reporting, and a task force sunset, while a contested roll call on the committee of the whole report revealed a 37-20 split and floor debates on HB 1145 and HB 1127 sparked sharp exchanges over affordable housing fines, data privacy, and the legitimacy of the floor amendment process.
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Representative DeGraff argued Amendment L001 was needed because 'the state cannot be trusted with your data' and cited a news report that the state collects millions by selling driver data to private investigators and data brokers; Representatives Rutinel and Joseph countered that personal identifying information is required by federal NHTSA reporting standards and necessary to avoid double counting, and that the bill improves privacy by replacing fax and email with a secure platform. A compromise substitute amendment (L003) limiting personal information to what is federally required passed by voice vote.
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“Our bill's perfect. We did stakeholdering, granted it didn't include you, but our bill's perfect. Go away. That's what I just heard. Our bill is above reproach. Go away. You weren't part of this before. You weren't part of the discussion. By the time it gets here to the floor, we've got this thing sealed up, so go away.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe House will come to order. The Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Representative Goldstein. Thank you. Madam Speaker. Please join me in the Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the five of the United States of America and to the Republic. Mr. Schiebel, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. Barone. Bassinecker. Bottoms. Bradfield. Bradley. Good morning. Representative Bradley is excused. Brooks. Brown. Caldwell. Camacho. Carter. Representative carter is excused. Clifford. Degraff. Duran. English espinoza. Ferre. Flannel. Froelich. Garcia. Garcia. Sanders. Gilchrist. Goldstein. Gonzalez. Hamrick. Hartsuk. Representative hartsuk. Oh, he's ducked down. Jackson. Johnson. Joseph. Kelty. Leader. Lindsey. Luck. Lukens. Mabry. Representative mabry. Excused. Marshall. He's there. Martinez. Morrow. Mccormick. Wynn. Pascal. Phillips. Richardson. Ricks. Representative ricks is excused. Rootnell. Ryden. Sirota. Representative sirota is excused. Slaw. Smith. Soper. Stuart k. Stuart r. Story. Sukla. Taggart. Tatone. Representative Valdez is excused. Velasco. Weinberg. Representative Weinberg. Excused. Excused. Wilford. Winter. Woodrow. Woogie. Zokai. Representative Zokai is excused. And, Madam speaker, With 58 present, seven excused. We do have a quorum, Representative Goldstein. Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure and an honor to serve with you members. Thank you, Representative Goldstein. It is a pleasure and an honor to serve with…
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