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Senate Appropriations

Wednesday, February 18, 2026·57m·▶ Watch / Listen

Senate Appropriations moved a full stack of department supplementals to the floor Feb. 18, most on the consent calendar, but split four times along party lines — on the Health Care Policy & Financing, Higher Education and Public Health supplementals and on SB26-005, the immigration-enforcement remedy bill — with Republicans Barbara Kirkmeyer, Larry Liston and Byron Pelton in dissent. A fifth measure, the DORA supplemental, drew a lone 6-1 no from Pelton.

Key Actions

·Department of Agriculture SupplementalPassed

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Notable Quotes

When hospitals lose their ability to fund anesthesia coverage, Service lines are reduced or eliminated. Obstetric units close, surgeries are canceled, Emergency patients are transferred hours away. This is how healthcare deserts are created.

Kelly Logue (Colorado Association of Nurse Anesthetists) · witnessCRNA representative warning that anesthesia reimbursement cuts in the HCPF supplemental threaten rural hospital viability, where CRNAs are often the sole anesthesia providers.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (4)Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
No (3)Barbara Kirkmeyer, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (4)Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
No (3)Barbara Kirkmeyer, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Judy Amabile, Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (4)Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
No (3)Barbara Kirkmeyer, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (6)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
No (1)Byron Pelton
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile, Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (4)Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
No (3)Barbara Kirkmeyer, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton
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TranscriptPreview
Good morning. The Senate Committee on Appropriations will begin. Mr. Catlett, please call the roll. Senators Gonzalez. Good morning. Kirkmeyer. Good morning. Kolker? Here. Liston. Here. PELTON B. Here. Mr. Vice Chair Gatlett. Madam Chair. Here. Okay, so we have a bunch of bills today for our very first committee, but we're going to start with the committee that we are not the committee of reference the bill that we're not the committee of reference for Senate Bill 26005. And we have our sponsors here and Senator Gonzalez, would you like to move the bill? Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move Senate Bill 5 and J001. Are there any questions for the bill sponsors? Senator Kirkmeyer? So is the cash fund that's being cash funds that are being re appropriate from the Department of Personnel, are those actually general fund? Senator Gonzalez? They are continuously appropriated from the Risk Management Management cash fund. Senator Kirk Meyer. But didn't that originate as general fund or doesn't eventually this become general fund? Senator Gonzalez? I don't know the answer to that question, Senator Weissman. Thank you, Senator Kirkmeyer. I think the site is 2430, 1501, if you want to check.
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