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House Judiciary

Wednesday, February 4, 2026·2h 10m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced HB26-1020, a task-force product curbing the use of unreliable colorimetric field drug tests, while laying over both HB26-1039's municipal jail standards bill and HB26-1060 for later dates.

Key Actions

·Colorimetric Field Drug Tests in Drug PossessionsPassed

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Notable Quotes

this is already being done, then why do we need the bill?

Rebecca KeltieCrystallizes the skeptics' central challenge to a bill sponsors framed as merely codifying current practice at municipal jails.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Chad Clifford, Matt Soper, Yara Zokaie, Javier Mabrey, Jennifer Bacon, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Lorena Garcia, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh, Michael Carter
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TranscriptPreview
The committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. Clifford. Here. Espinoza. Excused. Flinell. Flannel. Garcia. L.T. here. Slaw. Here. Soper. Here. It's okay, Carter. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, members, we got a few bills, three bills today. We are waiting on Rep. Ricks to come over, so stand by for Rep. Ricks to get here and then we will start with House Bill 1039. Okay, members, we're gonna get started. We have both bill sponsors here. All right, so just at the outset, I had a conversation with one of the sponsors about they're gonna. We're gonna introduce the bill, we're gonna do testimony, and after that we're gonna lay it over for action only. So just a heads up to committee members and bill sponsors, whoever would like to start maybe again, Vice Chair Carter. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Basically this bill is the purpose of this bill. Specifically right now there are about three different type of facilities where in which an individual can be detained or held. There is a. You can be held in a detention facility where in which the purpose of a detention facility is to hold
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