The Colorado House passed 20+ bills on Legislative Day 062, with the most contested votes centering on HB 26-1203 (county commissioner election structure, 35-27) and a divided House Joint Resolution recognizing Latino Advocacy Day (43-18). Debate on HB 26-1203 grew heated when sponsors invoked civil rights history, prompting a rebuke from the presiding officer and sharp pushback from minority members.
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Representative Marshall called HB 26-1203 'a basic civil rights bill' and invoked the heritage of Republican civil rights support, prompting the presiding Speaker to admonish him: 'Representative Marshall, please do not impugn or speak to the intentions of others in this chamber.' Representative Bottoms responded: 'when you start pointing at the reason we're voting is because of our heritage or some kind of backstory, that makes us the bad guys... To say that this is a civil rights bill is completely out of line. This is a county commissioner bill.' Assistant Minority Leader Winter stated: 'I refuse to let the motives of my colleagues be impugned from this well.'
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“Sander. Thank you, Madam Speaker. I too didn't speak on second because I wanted to make sure that I checked with my counties and really understood this. So I'm speaking on behalf of my constituents for House District 65. This bill does not recognize home rule. And home rule counties need to be exempted from this. The argument that Weld is exempted is not the point. Home rule counties need to be exempted also the state constitution grants us the right to organize via home rule. That charter then”
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Sign in to subscribeAmen. The House will come to order. Today the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Representative Slaw. Assistant Minority. Oh, there he is. Representative Slaw, Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Schiebel, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. AML. Bacon. Excused. Barone. Bassinecker. Speaker Pro Tem. Basinecker. Excused. Bottoms. Bradfield. Bradley. Representative Bradley. Excused. Brooks. Brown. Caldwell. Camacho. Carter. Representative Carter. Excused. Clifford. DeGraff. Reptographs. Excused. Thank you. Duran. English. Espinoza. Representative espinoza is excused. Ferre. Flannel. Froelich. Garcia. Garcia. Sanders. Gilchrist. Goldstein. Representative goldstein. Excused. Gonzalez. Hamrick. Hartsook. Jackson. Johnson. Joseph. Kelty. Leader. Lindsay. Representative lindsey. Excused. Luck. Lukens. Mabry. Marshall. Martinez. Morrow. Mccormick. Representative mccormick. Excused. Wynn. Pascal. Representative Pascal. Excused. Phillips. Richardson. Ricks. Representative Ricks. Excused. Rutinell. Rieden. Sirota. Representative Sirota. Excused. Slaw. Smith. Soper. Representative soper. Stuart k. Stuart r. Storey. Sukla. Taggart. Is. Excused. Tatone. She's here. Valdez a. Velasco. Weinberg. Wilford. Winter, woodrow. Woog, Zokai. And madam speaker here. With 57, 58 present and 7 excused, we do have a…
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