House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources

Monday, April 6, 2026·5h 33m·▶ Watch / Listen

Colorado's House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Committee unanimously advanced a bill loosening winter fuel-sourcing rules and raising the petroleum storage tank cleanup cap, then split along a rare intra-caucus fault line to send SB26-121 — which would streamline agricultural overtime to a single 56-hour threshold — to the floor over the objections of three Democrats after hours of impassioned testimony.

Key Actions

·Overtime Threshold for Agricultural EmployeesPassed

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Notable Quotes

“Senate Bill 122 recognizes that the total reimbursement cap for the Petroleum storage tank fund has not been increased since 2005. This allows the Committee and the Department, as amended in the Senate, to exceed the cap when warranted to protect the environment and continue remediation work at sites that are increasingly expensive to mitigate.”
Meghan Lukens — The core rationale for lifting the long-frozen per-incident liability cap that funds contamination cleanups.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (10)Lori Garcia Sander, Dusty Johnson, Meghan Lukens, Matthew Martinez, Lesley Smith, Katie Stewart, Larry Don Suckla, Ty Winter, Tisha Mauro, Karen McCormick

No (3)Lori Goldstein, Mandy Lindsay, Tammy Story

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (12)Lori Garcia Sander, Lori Goldstein, Dusty Johnson, Meghan Lukens, Matthew Martinez, Lesley Smith, Katie Stewart, Tammy Story, Larry Don Suckla, Ty Winter, Tisha Mauro, Karen McCormick

Excused (1)Mandy Lindsay

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TranscriptPreview

Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee will come to order. Ms. Kelly, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia, Sander. Present. Goldstein. Excused. Johnson. Here. Lindsey. Excused. Lukens. Here. Martinez. Here. Smith, Stewart. Here. Story. Excused. Sukla. Excused. Winter. Here. Tomorrow. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Thank you all for joining us today. We have two bills to hear in this order. Senate Bill 122, Senate Bill 121. For those of you here in the building and perhaps joining us later, we do have an overflow room available for those in person, which is really room 109 right next door to us because there will be no standing in this room except for any needed interpreters. So just so you know, there's an overflow room. And we do have our bill sponsors for our first bill here, Senate Bill 122, Representative Winter and Representative Lukens, who would like to begin. Representative Winter. Thank you, Madam Chair and committee, we'll start off. I'm going to kind of give you the setup to where this bill came from and I'll let Rep. Lukens dive into more of what the bill does. So as we saw the standards change, the ATSM standards around fuel tank…

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