House Business Affairs & Labor

It. The House Business affairs and Labor Committee will come to order. Ms. Jawara, please call the roll. Representatives Brooks. Excused. English. Excused. Gonzalez. Kelty. Care. Leader. Excused. Mabry. Marshall. Here. Morrow. Richardson. Ryden. Excused. Sukla. Here. Camacho. Here. Madam Chair. All right, everyone. Madam. What? Oh, Madam Chair is excused as well. All right. Good morning, everyone. We are going to be hearing House Bill 1311 first, and we do have our sponsors up. And may the record reflect that Representative English has joined us. Sponsors, please take it away. Who would like to go first? Madam Majority leader. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I'm here today to present House Bill 1311, a bill grounded in a simple but important principle. Contractors and subcontractors should be able to access the payments they have earned without unnecessary delays. This is not new work for me. In 2021, I brought forward House Bill 1168, legislation focused on improving fairness and transparency in construction payment practices here in Colorado. That bill was about making sure contract and subcontractors were paid more reliably and on time. And it laid important groundwork for how much, for how we think about…