House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs

The House State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee will come to order. Ms. King, please call the roll. Representatives. Bottoms. Here. Bradley. Here. Carter. Excused. Espinoza. Foray. Excused. Turlec. Here. Luck. Here. Wynn. Present. Ricks. Yeah. Clifford. Here. Madam Chair. Here. All right, we have four bills on the committee or on the agenda. We'll start with Senate Bill 47. Representative Phillips. Representative Camacho, if you. If you want to speak first, you can speak first. It's okay. Come on, guys. Wow. That was apparently a super big deal. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you, committee. This is my second time. First time this year, second time ever to the committee. So happy to be back. SB26 047. It's a technical but necessary update to Colorado law that improves clarity, consistency and fairness and how ballot questions are administered for firefighter collective bargaining. So right now, the statute allows voters to petition for a ballot question, but the definition of general election is not fully aligned with how elections are actually conducted across the state. So the mismatch can create uncertainty for local governments, election officials, and the voters themselves. This bill fixes that by explicitly including coordinated…