Senate Local Government & Housing

All right. Senate Local Government, Housing Committee will come to order. Ms. Alenzaro, please call. Senators Baisley. Present. Ball. Here. Linstedt. Liston. Rich. Here. Snyder. Here. Mr. Chair, good morning. We have two bills this morning, House Bill 1095 and House Bill 1257. We will start with 1095, and Senator Linstadt has received permission from Senator Pelton to go along by myself. All right, tell us about 1095. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. House Bill 1095 would require newspapers to publish public notices online, either on a news organization's website or to provide a link to the full text of the notice. The bill would require that those notices are not behind a paywall. You know, being from local government and relying, seeing so many people that rely on these notices, I think it's only fair that they are accessible to the public when they're needed. So the intent of the bill is just to make it more accessible for people to find these notices because more and more Coloradans use digital media as opposed to print media. So pretty, pretty simple, Bill. We have an amendment, some of the stakeholders requested, that would require the public notices, the…