The House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Committee advanced two contested bills — a diaper changing station mandate (HB 26-1130) passing 7-4 as amended and a non-employment background check bill (HB 26-1143) passing 8-3 — while killing an Ireland trade bill (HB 26-1118) unanimously on sponsors' own motion due to an unresolved fiscal note.
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Representative Keltie argued 'I don't like the state saying, well, it's good for thee, but not for me' and voted no in part on that basis; Representative Story explained the exemption was due to fiscal constraints (a $2.1 million state cost) and the need for further discussions with state departments and agencies.
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“Why do we have to regulate this? Because we don't know the cost of businesses, we don't know how many businesses, we don't know the enforcement. Why not just hit them where the their wallets are and go on social media? Like if I was that mom that was in the restaurant, I'd have a comment and I'd have it blown up on every social media network there is in town because that's the way we change it without then regulating it. We're the sixth most regulated state. We have 250,000 regulations on small or on businesses right now with 45% of them being either repetitive or duplicative.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe State Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee will come to order. Ms. King, please call the roll. Representatives. Representatives Bradley. Here. Carter. Excused. Espinosa. Excused. Gray. Here. Excuse me. Froelich. Here. Kelty. Here. Luck. Here. Wynn. Excused. Ricks. Excused. Clifford. Here. Wilford. Or Madam Chair. Here. For my friends that are now very late for committee, they will all be assessed a $1 fine. All right. Representative Hartsook, you are here on House Bill 1118. Let you go ahead and get started. Yes, ma'. Am. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you committee members for having us here. I'll make this short and sweet. Everybody's kind of running concurrent committees right now. We're going to end up PI in this bill. Here's what I want to run through real quickly. We had a lot. We've been working on this thing for the better part of a year. A lot of thanks goes to the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, the Ireland Consul General, Senator Mark Daley, who's the president of the Irish Senate, OEDIT. And this is model legislation in 26 states across the union and increasing. It was designed to increase trade and…
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