House Finance

Monday, March 30, 2026·2h 26m·▶ Watch / Listen

House Finance advanced two tax-and-fee bills to Appropriations over bipartisan objections, narrowly clearing a first-in-the-nation fee on large employers whose low-wage workers rely on Medicaid, 6-5, and extending the conservation easement tax credit by five years, 9-2.

Key Actions

·Extend Conservation Easement Tax CreditPassed

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Notable Quotes

“it's a little strange for me to be here today to testify that 1327 does in fact violate TABOR. I do that because if this bill passes and becomes law and if it is challenged, that will set back the ability of the General assembly to use Enterprises to do some of the creative things that you've used Enterprises to do.”
Trey Rogers, Colorado Retail Council · witness — A former chief legal counsel to Gov. Ritter warned that a losing court fight over this fee could damage the enterprise mechanism lawmakers rely on to raise revenue outside TABOR limits.

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Votes

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (9)Jennifer Bacon, Max Brooks, Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Ryan Gonzalez, Anthony Hartsook, Rebekah Stewart, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow

No (2)Ken DeGraaf, Bob Marshall

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (6)Jennifer Bacon, Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Rebekah Stewart, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow

No (5)Max Brooks, Ken DeGraaf, Ryan Gonzalez, Anthony Hartsook, Bob Marshall

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TranscriptPreview

The committee will come to order. Please call the roll. Representative Spacon? Here. Brooks. Present. Camacho. Here. DeGraff? Yep. Garcia. Here. Gonzalez. Hi. Hartsuk? Here. Marshall? Here. Stewart. Here to tone. Yes. Mr. Chair here. Running at full steam. All right, first bill up 1327. Representative Ferre, kick us off. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This has been a bill that I've talked with all of you at length about over the past couple of months. Really great work between different departments, different organizations to try to tackle this topic. So the bill will collect a reasonable fee by the nation's largest employers to help support providers and keep them the Medicaid workers healthy and working in health Committee. We brought amendments to tackle some of the stakeholders concerns around targeting some of those Medicaid members and removed the overflow fund so they would only be able to collect with that enterprise. I'll be bringing an amendment today to talk a little bit about the additional concerns that we've discussed with the ags and AG and Governor's office around just that nexus argument for tabor. And I understand that there are some different philosophies around enterprises and tabor and I respect…

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