House Business Affairs & Labor

Thursday, March 12, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Business Affairs & Labor Committee spent its entire day on a single measure — HB26-1210, to prohibit surveillance-based price and wage setting — advancing it to the floor on a narrow bipartisan split after hours of testimony from gig drivers, consumer advocates, disability groups and a wall of business and tech opposition.

Key Actions

·Prohibit Surveillance Price & Wage SettingPassed

Notable Quotes

“It doesn't adjust prices based on market conditions. It adjusts prices based on you, who you are, what you are going through, how desperate you may be at any given moment. That is not the free market. That is economic exploitation dressed up with technology.”
Javier Mabrey — The sponsor's core framing of what 'surveillance pricing' is and why it differs from ordinary market pricing.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (7)Regina English, Sheila Lieder, Javier Mabrey, Tisha Mauro, Gretchen Rydin, Meg Froelich, Andrew Boesenecker

No (6)Max Brooks, Ryan Gonzalez, Bob Marshall, Larry Don Suckla, Ron Weinberg, Chris Richardson

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TranscriptPreview

You guys good? Hey, max. You guys good? Okay. Okay. Did rep. English finder work? The House Business affairs and Labor Committee will come to order. Ms. Jawara, please call the roll. Representative Brooks. Present. English Excuse. Present. Gonzalez. Good afternoon, Leader. Present. Mabry. Here. Marshall. Here. Morrow. Here. Richardson. Here. Ryden. Present. Sukla. Here. Weinberg. Excuse. Froelich. Here. And Mr. Chair. Here. Well, good afternoon, everyone. I am not Representative Ricks, but it is my pleasure to join you today as your chair along Rep. Froehlich will be vice chair. We have one bill ahead of us Today, House Bill 1210. Thank you all for being here. Just a little word on how we're going to do testimony to make sure everybody gets heard, but we also prioritize moving through the order as efficiently as we can. Witnesses will have two minutes to offer their testimony. We will do 10 minutes per panel, and then we will alternate questions, Republican and Democrat on each panel. So hopefully to be able to equally divide the questions that you might have for our witnesses. We'll be starting with a panel of proponents, and then we'll alternate opponents as well. But first,…

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