Senate Finance

Tuesday, February 3, 2026·1h 11m·▶ Watch / Listen

Senate Finance moved briskly through two commission confirmations and cleared two unanimous bills — a Fire and Police Pension Association modernization and a measure to decouple Colorado's nonprofit tax status from the federal government, the latter pulled off the consent calendar at Minority Leader Cleave Simpson's request so he could study it further.

Key Actions

·Charitable Organization State Sales & Use TaxPassed

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Notable Quotes

“we just had somebody who is stage four cancer, terminally ill, and under the law, we've got to send them to three independent medical exams. And we don't feel like that's necessary.”
Adam Franklin (General Counsel, Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado) · witness — The concrete example driving the bill's shift from mandatory to appropriate independent medical exams for disability claims.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (9)Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder, Janice Marchman, Cathy Kipp

Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction

Yes (9)Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder, Janice Marchman, Cathy Kipp

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TranscriptPreview

Everybody, welcome to Senate Finance. Our first meeting of 2026. Woohoo. Thanks for being here. And Ms. Friedelbush, will you please take the roll? Senators Bright. Here. Roselle. President Gonzalez. Present. Poker. Excused. Mullica. Excused. Simpson. President Snyder. Here. Marchman. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Oh, and I. Wait, I'm going to give you a second to say Kolker again because. Okay, there. So thank you everybody for joining us Today we are going to start off with some confirmations. And first up today we have the Limited Gaming Control Commission. And I believe. Well, I think Christopher Schroeder is going to introduce Michael Faber. And it says both appointees. I don't see both names on here. Oh, okay. For both of them. So actually do you all want to just come up and we'll do one. We'll do each commission one at a time, but we'll get started with that. Okay. Okay, excellent. And yeah, so we're going to do the Limited Gaming Control Commission first and we're going to move on to the Colorado Racing Commission. Okay. But Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Faber I believe favor Faber. Thank you both for being here. And please, Mr. Schroeder, please proceed.…

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