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The House Education Committee sent two measures to Appropriations on split votes, headlined by a student-driven bill to expand Denver's youth access card statewide — recast on the spot as the Youth Opportunity Card and shorn of its $250,000 fiscal note.
Key Actions
·My Colorado Card Pilot ProgramPassed
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Notable Quotes
“So so I represent South Thornton and our kids are not at risk. Our kids are at promise and often we hear the term those people are those kids.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (7)Jennifer Bacon, Lindsay Gilchrist, Eliza Hamrick, Katie Stewart, Tammy Story, Matthew Martinez, Meghan Lukens
No (5)Ava Flanell, Anthony Hartsook, Dusty Johnson, Mary Bradfield, Lori Garcia Sander
Excused (1)Jacque Phillips
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (8)Ava Flanell, Lori Garcia Sander, Lindsay Gilchrist, Eliza Hamrick, Anthony Hartsook, Katie Stewart, Tammy Story, Meghan Lukens
No (3)Mary Bradfield, Dusty Johnson, Matthew Martinez
Excused (2)Jennifer Bacon, Jacque Phillips
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The Education Committee will come to order. Mr. Beck, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. Excused. Bradfield. Here. Flinell. Excused. Garcia. Sander. Present. Gilchrist. Here. Amrick. Here. Hartsuk. Here. Johnson. Here. Phillips. Excused. Stuart Kay. Here. Story. Here. Martinez. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Okay, we are starting with House Bill 1055. Our bill sponsors are here. Who would like to start? Rep. LINDSAY thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Education Committee. I haven't been here in a while, so it's nice to get to see you all in this capacity. It's nice to get to be working on some legislation that would even need need to come here. In this case, things that I care about, like impacting young people. And so we're very happy to be here today. Representative Nguyen and I to present House Bill 1055, which is loosely named the My Colorado Card Bill. If anybody is lives in Denver or adjacent, you may be familiar with the My Denver card, which really is the the beginning grounds of where this concept comes from. When my kids were younger, obviously now I represent Aurora, but I used to live in Denver and our kids were able to…
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