House Finance
The House Finance Committee opened its session by launching the once-in-11-years sunset review of the Colorado Securities Act and clearing two bills to Appropriations — a special license plate honoring fallen firefighters that drew wrenching family testimony, and a Department of Revenue measure consolidating four cash funds into one.
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“He had a young firefighter with him. His name was Stephen Bales. That's my son. And another firefighter, Rich Montoya, took that crew in to fight that fire, realized conditions were untenable. And I remember my son saying the last thing he remembers is a hand in his back pushing him out the door. Rich Montoya was a hero. He saved two firefighters at the expense of his own life. He was 15 days from retirement.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe House Finance Committee will come to order. Ms. Culver, please call the roll. Representatives Brooks. Present. Camacho. Excused. DeGraff. Richardson. Richardson. Yes. Thank you. Last minute substitution. Garcia. Here. Gonzalez. Buenos dias. Hartsuk. Here. Marshall. Here. Stuart. Here. Zokai. Tatone. Excused. And Mr. Chair. Here. Okay, folks, we have three items on the agenda for our first meeting of the House Finance Committee. Welcome. We have the sunset review of the Colorado securities act, followed by public testimony, and then we will have hearings on House Bill 1032 and House Bill 1059. We will start with the sunset. So, you know, the way it works is that we've got our OLS drafter to come up and talk to us about the process on our sunset hearing on the Colorado Securities Act. Mr. Payne, please come up. Mr. Dewise, nice to see you both. Please proceed. Good morning. Nice to see you, too. Who'd like to go first? Mr. Twise Floor is yours. Thank you. Mr. Chair. Excuse me, members of the committee, my name is Brian Tavias. I'm the director of the Colorado Office of Policy, Research and Regulatory Forum located within the Department of Regulatory Agencies. And before…
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