The Senate Local Government & Housing Committee unanimously advanced a bill modernizing legal notice publication requirements, then killed a sweeping drone preemption bill 2–5, with the majority citing local control concerns over privacy and enforcement.
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Senator Liston stated CML 'had every opportunity to give us amendments, and quite frankly, they never did' and that sponsors had 'bent over backwards' and 'more than met them halfway.' Owen Brigner of CML countered that the two sides 'got to an impasse' and that after months of engagement and two stakeholder calls, CML still could not understand what problem the bill was trying to solve, and that the amendments made no material changes to the bill.
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“These drone policies are developed all across the country. Places like Hollywood, the land of starlets and swimming pools, have very restrictive things because they don't want privacy being invaded. What I've seen in Telluride and Breckenridge Ridge and some of these places really tips the scales in favor for me of preserving some degree of local control over how these operations.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe Senate Local Government Housing Committee will come to order. Mr. Alden Zaro, please call the roll. Senators Basley. Rosen. Ball. Here. Winstep. Here. Liston. Excuse. Rich. Here. Snyder. Here. Mr. Chair. Good morning and good morning, everybody. Welcome to St. Lou Government Housing. We have two bills this morning and we will again. We begin with Senate Bill 61. Senator Rich and Senator Roberts, who would like to start. Senator rich thank you, Mr. Chair. And I think everyone will know that we have a strike below, but we'll go ahead and speak to the bill unless you want to do that differently. This bill addresses something that might sound technical but has very real consequences for local governments trying to follow the law. How and where to publish required legal notices. Under current Colorado law, counties and other local governments must publish legal notices, things like public hearing announcements, budget notices and other required public communications in a newspaper that meets specific criteria. Among those criteria is holding a U.S. postal Service periodical mailing permit. That requirement made sense decades ago when nearly every community had a qualified local paper. But the newspaper industry has changed dramatically. Many…
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