House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources

Monday, March 16, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Committee killed HB26-1270, a bid to give farmers ownership of the data their equipment generates, even after adopting a slate of the sponsors' own amendments — a rebuke driven by warnings the policy was unworkable under federal copyright law. The panel closed with the uncontroversial passage of a resolution nudging the Department of Agriculture to work with the state's farmers markets.

Key Actions

·Ownership of Agricultural DataKilled

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Notable Quotes

“Farmers are no longer just producing food, they are being treated as data subjects in a system of surveillance capitals.”
Brianna Titone — The sponsor's core framing: that equipment makers profit from data farmers generate without compensating them.

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Votes

Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction

Yes (8)Lori Garcia Sander, Lori Goldstein, Dusty Johnson, Meghan Lukens, Larry Don Suckla, Ty Winter, Karen McCormick, Katie Stewart

No (5)Matthew Martinez, Lesley Smith, Tammy Story, Tisha Mauro, Mandy Lindsay

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TranscriptPreview

House Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources Committee will come to order. Ms. Kelly, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia, Sanders, Goldstein. Excused. Johnson. Excused. Lindsey. Here. Lukens. Yes. Here. Martinez. Here. Smith. Here. Stuart. Yes. Sorry. Excused. Sukla. Here. Winter. Here. Tomorrow. Here. Madam Chair. Here. All right, we have two items on our agenda today. And first up is House Bill 2612 70. We have both of our bill sponsors in front of us. Who would like to begin? Representative Tatone. Thank you, Madam Chair. Well, members, this is a very exciting bill that we are going to talk to you about today. And there's a lot of information about it. This is a topic that covers a lot of different aspects of law and data privacy and commodities. All kinds of different things really fall into this. And I sent around to everyone a folder full of information on a Google Drive folder. There was a document there. You could have looked at all of the different research papers that are there. I just added another one today which is a presentation which is on the readme first file. And if you're a computer nerd like me, the Readme…

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