The Colorado House floor session on Legislative Day 051 passed a series of contested bills on third reading — including measures on electric transmission optimization, mobile home taxation, and voter transparency for ballot measures — while rejecting multiple minority amendments on language-translation mandates and market-efficiency provisions, exposing sharp partisan and urban-rural divides.
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Representatives DeGraff, Brooks, Caldwell, Hartsook, Barone, and Winter argued that requiring mobile home tax-lien notices in five languages is an unfunded mandate on counties, with Hartsook stating directly: 'we were just acknowledged by the sponsors that there is a cost. The bottom line is there's a cost to local government and we're not accounting for it in the fiscal note.' Sponsors Martinez and Velasco opposed both relief amendments (L008 and L009), with Martinez arguing the bill must cast 'the net as wide as possible' to ensure homeowners know what equity they are entitled to. Both L008 and L009 failed.
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“House Bill 1081 is about getting full value from the infrastructure we already have instead of defaulting to building new transmission lines that can take a decade or more to permit and construct. This bill requires utilities to seriously evaluate advanced transmission technologies, tools that can increase the capacity, resilience and performance of existing lines.”
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