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House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs

Tuesday, May 12, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The House State Affairs committee sent SB26-192, the Producer Responsibility Dues Appeals Process bill, to the floor on a 7-4 vote that crossed party lines, after nearly two hours of dense legal wrangling over whether Colorado's EPR Advisory Board can constitutionally hear producer appeals. The Chair closed with a farewell insisting the panel was 'not, in fact, the kill Committee.'

Key Actions

·Producer Responsibility Dues Appeals ProcessPassed

Notable Quotes

But Colorado's program will not withstand constitutional challenges if it does not include an appeals process for businesses being assessed dues.

Junie JosephThe sponsor's core argument for why the bill is necessary — that without a producer appeals mechanism the EPR program is legally vulnerable.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford, Michael Carter, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks
No (4)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Cecelia Espenoza, Stephanie Luck
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TranscriptPreview
All right. The State Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee will come to order. Ms. King, please call the roll. Representatives bottoms here. Bradley here. Carter pass. Espinoza here. Here. For the last time, Joyfully present. Also joyfully here. Carter present. Clifford. I'm here. Here members. We here members. We have one bill on the agenda today, Senate Bill 192. And our bill sponsors are with us, so we will turn it over to them. Representative Soper. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members want to thank you for listening to one last bill, Senate Bill 92. It's important that you understand the process of how we got here. Both my co prime and I sit on the Committee on Legal Services, as do a couple of others on this panel. For those that do sit on ols, you'll remember we had a out of cycle rule review. For those who are not on the panel, I will describe what happened. We had a member, Representative Camacho, who asked for the producer responsibility dues appeals process rule that had been enacted as a rule. So regulation. There you go. Picture break. Love it. One more picture break today. So it had been
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