The Colorado House passed a full slate of FY2025-26 supplemental appropriations bills on third reading and final passage, with the most contentious debate centering on HB 26-1155 (Department of Health Care Policy and Financing), where members clashed over Medicaid provider rate cuts, fraud concerns, and the impact of the federal HR1 legislation reducing state revenue by roughly $1.2 billion. The session also adopted a historic Lunar New Year resolution and heard a Black History Month hidden figure presentation.
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During debate on HB 26-1151, the Presiding Officer interrupted DeGraaf when he referenced an alleged political prisoner, stating 'Representative, I'll just bring you back to the content of our bill,' and later told him 'I encourage you to continue to speak with respect to your colleagues.' During debate on HB 26-1155, after DeGraaf stated 'I cannot think of a better way to say that a certain party hates Coloradans than this budget process,' the Presiding Officer reminded members 'we don't need to characterize each other's emotions, intentions.'
“Last year we balanced our budget. And then in July, The Congress passed HR1, which reduced revenue to the state by roughly $1.2 billion. And as a result, we have supplemental actions this year that are significant that look far outsized from what we have had to grapple with in the past.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe House will come to order. Today our pledge is going to be just a little delayed. We have a guest coming from Assistant Minority Leader Winter's district. She's been caught in traffic and so we would hate to rob her of the opportunity to give the pledge after driving for three hours. So we're going to move the pledge a little further back and we're going to start with Mr. Schieble calling the roll. Representatives bacon. Barone. Bassinecker. Bottoms. Bradfield. Bradley. Brooks. Brown. Representative brow. Caldwell. Camacho. Carter. Clifford. Representative clifford. Excused. Degraff, duran. English. Espet. Espinoza. Representative espinoza. She is here. Ferre. Flannel. Froelich. Garcia. Garcia. Sander. Gilchrist. Goldstein. Gonzalez. Hamrick. Hartsook. Jackson. Johnson. Joseph. Kelty. Leader. Lindsey. Luck. Lukens. Mabry. Marshall. Martinez. Morrow. Mccormick. Wynn. Pascal. Phillips. Richardson. Ricks. Representative ricks is excused. Rootnell. Rieden. Sirota. Slaw. Representative. Slaw. Excused. Smith. Soper. Representative Soper. Stuart k. Rep. Stuart r. Is excused. Story, sukla. Taggart. Tatone. Rep. Valdez is excused. Velasco. Representative velasco is excused. Weinberg. Wilford. Representative wilford. Excused. Winter. Woodrow. Woog. Zokai. And madam speaker is excused. Good. 58. 7. Okay, great. The House will stand. In a brief recession, The House will come back to…
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