House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources

The House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee will now come to order. Ms. Kelly, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia. Sander. Present. Goldstein. Here. Johnson. Here. Lindsey. Here. Lukens. Here. Martinez. Here. Smith. Here. Stuart. Here. St. Story. Excused. Sukla. Here. Winter. Here. McCormick. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Okay, we have our bill sponsors in front of us. We will now Hear House Bill 1338. Who would like to start? Representative McCormick. Thank you, madam Chair. Yes. This bill is our annual Colorado Water Conservation Board funding bill that comes through every year. That's what annual means and I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. This, this is a really critical bill though, for us as our job as legislators to bring this bill forward and pass it through, realizing that all of the funding that you see in this bill has zero impact to the general fund. This uses the CWCB cash funds, and most of these funds are available as the result of interest that has been earned on water project financing. So loans throughout the year, which is great. So we just keep that money flowing to projects and it flows back in with…