The committee advanced three bills — including a contested mobile home park water quality measure and two unanimous bills on motorcycle permits and foreclosure procedures — while sending a fire suppression sunset extension to appropriations. The water quality bill passed 10-3 over objections about subjective enforcement standards and affordable housing risks.
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Representative Richardson voted no, arguing: 'The subjective versus the objective standards in the amendment...if there are objective measurements that should or could be taken, I think we need to look at what those would be before walking down the road of fining and perhaps shutting down and risking having that, that affordable housing available.' Representative Phillips countered that more measurable language would prevent CDPHE from using the screening tools and interviewing tools it already has.
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“Choosing affordable housing in our communities or using it as a necessity because of where you are at in your life should not then come with the liability of wondering if your water is somehow safe to consume or use.”
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Sign in to subscribeSighting mid morning into the afternoon. Mr. Gravy, please call the roll or. Representative Basenecker? Here. Brooks. Present. Jackson. Here. Lindsay. When? Here. Pascal. Here. Phillips. Yes. Richardson. Here. Sukla. Here. Velasco. Weinberg. Here. Vice Chair Stewart? Here. Madam Chair? Here. Let's get straight to our first bill, 1079 with some special guests in the audience. So please tell us about the bill, Representative Bradley and Representative Basenecker. Thank you. Members. I have never presented in front of transportation, local government. This is a first, although I was in this room until about 9:00 o'clock last night. So I feel very comfortable. Pardon the emotions. Obviously I'm running this bill to try to protect kids in Colorado. So September 11, already starting, Was the worst night of my life and every parent's worst nightmare. We received a phone call from the chaplain at Parker Adventist Hospital to come quick. Your son is critical. With no other details to offer. When we got there, we were ushered into a private room where a nurse told us our son was very injured and he would have. We would have to wait for more details. We would later learn that he needed two…
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