House Finance
House Finance advanced two bills after a marathon hearing, restoring lost 911 and suicide-hotline funding on a near-unanimous vote and sending a hotly contested earned-wage-access licensing bill to Appropriations over a five-Democrat revolt led by the committee's own chair.
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“In June of 2025, DOR ruled that unlimited prepaid cell phone plans are exempt from the prepaid point surcharges resulting in a $17 million annual funding loss for 911 services and 4 million annual funding loss for 988 services, which is the suicide hotline.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe committee will come to order. Ms. Culver, please call the roll. Representative Brooks. President Caldwell. Excused. Camacho. Excused. Garcia. Gonzalez. Excused. Artsuk. Here. Marshall. Here. Stuart. Here. Zokay. Here. Tone. Here. And Mr. Chair. Here. We have a quorum. Good to see everyone. We're going to go a little bit out of order due to scheduling. The minority leader is here for the record and Representative Gonzalez is also here for the record. We are going to go a little bit out of order and here House Bill 1115 first Representatives Stewart and Mr. Speaker pro tem Basenecker, who would like to go first? Representative Stewart, tell us about 11:15. Thank you Mr. Chair. Thank you committee members. Very excited to be here today with Speaker Pro Tem to present this bill. First and foremost, you all need to know that 62 out of 64 counties in Colorado are mental health deserts. So I feel this bill is pretty important and working to help address that. In short, this bill reinstates the existing 911 surcharge on prepaid cell phone plans to fund 911 and 988 emergency service systems. Historically, all wireless phones, including prepaid wireless service were subject to…
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