April 17, 2026 · Appropriations · 2,486 words · 17 speakers · 240 segments
. Thank you. Thank you. House appropriations will come to order. Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representatives Basinecker.
Here.
Bottoms.
Here.
Joseph.
McCormick here. Soper.
Excuse. Taggart.
Tatone. Here.
Velasco.
Zocay.
Excuse.
Madam Vice Chair. Here.
And Mr. Chair. Here. All right, folks, We have nine bills today. We are going to start, I'm moving the things around on the calendar a bit. We're going to start with House Bill 1317. Madam Speaker, welcome to appropriations. I will also note that Representative Zokai has joined us Good morning Mr Chair and committee Thank you Madam Speaker Committee members do we have any questions for our bill sponsors
Oh, Representative Taggart.
I didn't realize you were.
I should have my track shoes on.
That's right. Do we have any questions for our bill sponsors on this bill? All right, seeing none. Madam Speaker, Representative Taggart, would you like us to move your amendment?
Madam Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Yes, L-003 removes any compensation for travel or other reimbursements, which brings our fiscal note to zero, and we would ask for support of L-003.
All right. Madam – oh, Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I move L003 to House Bill 1317.
Seconded by Representative Titone.
Are there any objections to L003? Seeing none, L003 is passed. Are there any additional amendments, sponsors?
No.
Are there any additional amendments, committee? Seeing none, the amendment phase is closed. Wrap up committee members, sponsors. All right, seeing none, Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1317 as amended to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation.
Second.
Seconded by Representative McCormick. There was quite a pause there. That was, seeing who's going to take that one. Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representative Basenecker.
Yes.
Bottoms.
No.
Joseph.
Yes.
McCormick.
Yes.
Soper.
Excused.
Taggart.
Yes.
Titone.
Yes.
Velasco.
Yes.
Zokai.
Yes.
Madam Vice Chair.
Yes.
And Mr. Chair.
Yes. That passes 9 to 1 with one excused.
Congratulations.
Thank you, committee.
See you on the floor.
All right. Let's move back to the top of our calendar. House Bill 1028. Welcome Representative Garcia and Representative Velasco. Where's your aid? Is this the amendment we have in our packet?
No, it is not.
Yes, okay, okay. Committee members, do we have any questions for our bill sponsors? Bill sponsors, I understand you have an amendment.
Representative Garcia.
Yes, thank you.
Members, as you can see, this bill does have an appropriation requirement. So we're bringing L2 that strikes all of the reference and the expectations of CDE to do anything on the bilingualism or biliteracy seal, and that should take care of the appropriation. And so we ask for an aye vote.
All right. Committee members, do we have any questions about L002? All right. Seeing none, Representative Velasco.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move L002 to House Bill 1028. Second.
Seconded by Representative Zocay. Are there any objections to L002? Seeing none, L002 passed. Sponsors, do you have any additional amendments? Committee members? All right, seeing none, the amendment phase is closed. Any wrap-up bill sponsors? Committee members? Great.
Representative Velasco.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I move House Bill 1028 as amended to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation and I urge a yes, a C vote. Thank you.
Committee members, well, Ms. Shen, do we have a second? Sorry.
Seconded by Representative Fatone.
Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representative Svesenekar.
Yes.
Bottoms. No.
Joseph. C.
McCormick. C.
Soaperexcused.
Taggart. Yes.
Tatone.
Sokai. See.
Oh, sorry.
Velasco. See.
Madam Vice Chair. See.
And Mr. Chair. See. That passes 9-1 with one excuse. You all get the honorary bilingualism seal. All right, moving on to 1075. All right. Let's see, Representative Hamrick, welcome. Do we have any questions for our bill sponsor? This is 1078. Bill sponsors. Oh, welcome Representative Smith. Of course. It's okay. Nope, not welcome. Oh. Sorry. Sorry. Representative Hamrick, we understand you have an amendment in the packet. dealing with federal funds, would you like us to move that? The correct answer to that is yes.
Yes.
Sorry.
Madam Vice Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move J001 to House Bill 1075.
Seconded by Representative Titone.
Are there any objections to J001? Seeing none, J001 has passed.
Rep. Hamrick, do you have any additional amendments?
No, committee members, seeing none, the amendment phase is closed.
Wrap up, no sponsor, committee members.
With that, Madam Vice Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1075 as amended to the Committee of the Whole.
Second.
Seconded by Representative Titone.
Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representative Basinecker.
Yes.
Bottoms. No.
Joseph. Yes.
McCormick. Yes. Soper excused. Taggart. Yes.
Tatone. Yes.
Velasco. Yes.
Sokai. Yes. Madam Vice Chair.
Yes. And Mr. Chair.
Yes. That passes nine to one with one excused. Congratulations. You're on to the committee of the whole. Next up we have, oh, welcome back, Representative Hamrick.
It's nice to be here.
Long time no see. Welcome, Representative Smith. We have are there any questions from the committee about 1078 All right seeing none Representatives we understand that you have there are two different amendments in our packet I would recommend that you move J that we move J's or two, as I think it deals more appropriately with your fiscal situation. Is that okay? Representative Smith?
Yes, Mr. Chair, thank you. And sorry, I was confused with the previous bill.
No worries.
We're running this amendment to fund a 0.7 FTE at the Department of Education to audit new concurrent enrollment courses. Understanding the tough budget environment this year, CU has agreed to take an $80,000 budget cut for two years because increasing access to these college courses is a priority for higher education as a whole. With this cut, this will create a budget-neutral change, and we hope to have a yes vote.
All right, committee members, questions on this amendment?
Seeing none, Madam Vice Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move J002 to House Bill 1078.
Seconded by Representative Titone.
Are there any objections to J002? Seeing none, J002 has passed.
Are there any additional amendments?
No, none from our sponsors.
Are there any amendments from the committee? Seeing none. The amendment phase is closed. Wrap up, bill sponsors? Committee members? Great.
Madam Vice Chair? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1078 as amended to the Committee of the Whole.
Seconded by Representative Tutton.
Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representative Basinecker?
Yes.
Bottoms?
Joseph? Yes.
McCormick? Yes.
Super excused, Taggart?
Yes.
Tatone? Yes.
Velasco? Yes.
Zilkai? Yes.
Madam Vice Chair? Yes.
And Mr. Chair? Yes. That passes nine to one with one excuse again. Congratulations. All right, as I mentioned yesterday, I'm laying over 12.06 until a future date. So we will move on to 12.27. Representative Gilchrist and Bradfield. Welcome. Committee members, do we have any questions for our bill sponsors on 1227?
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And pardon me, I should know the answer to this, but on page two, and it influences my decision, so I want to make sure I understand this. On page two under background, it talks about decreases from ORPC and OCR, and I just ask if those were already in the long bill, or are they part of this particular bill to more than offset the $225,000? I just don't recall.
Representative Gilchrist.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the amendment that we're bringing today, L006, reduces the fiscal note to zero, so they are not going to need the additional. Yeah.
Thank you. Okay, additional questions? All right, seeing none, as you mentioned, Representative Gilchrist, you have an amendment, L006. Would you like us to move that at this time? Would you like to talk about it, I guess, a little bit more? Yeah, go ahead.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. L006, as I stated previously, we worked with stakeholders to reduce the fiscal note, and so that is what is before you today. Also, just want to make a quick comment. We had in the hearing a robust policy discussion about this bill. We're proud that we have brought stakeholders along. There were several folks in the committee that perceived the Office of Respondent Parent Counsel to have paid for a witness to testify. We have confirmed that that has not happened, so I just want that to be on the record and make sure that that's clear. So with that, I ask for a yes vote on L006.
Okay.
Madam Vice Chair. Thank you Mr. Chair I move L006 to House Bill 1227. Seconded by Representative Patone. Are there any objections to L006? Seeing none L006 has passed. All right any additional comments? Representative Joseph. Thank
you Mr. Chair I just want to commend the sponsors for all the work they have done on this particular bill. And I've been privy to some of the stakeholder meetings and I will be a yes today in committee and very likely to be a yes as well on the floor. So thank you for all your work.
Thank you, Representative Joseph. Additional comments? Seeing none, Representative
or sorry, Madam Vice Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1227 as amended to the committee of the whole.
Seconded by Representative
Titone. Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representatives Basenecker.
Yes.
Bottoms. Yes.
Joseph. Yes.
McCormick. Yes.
Soper excused.
Taggart. Oh, here.
Oh, sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Representative Soper has joined us.
Representative Soper. Yes.
Taggart. Yes.
Totone. Yes.
Velasco. Yes.
Zokai. Yes.
Madam Vice Chair. Yes, and Mr. Chair.
Yes, that passes unanimously. Congratulations, see you on the floor. All right, let's move on to 1287. All right, do we have Representative Brooks? This is okay, great. Welcome. Sponsors, or committee members, Do we have any questions for our sponsors?
Yeah, Representative Bottoms. I do have a question that seems that many of the bills seem to fall in this category where we're extending out to 11 years. My thought process is within the time of the eight-year representative block that somebody can survey years, why would we extend it to 11?
Sponsors. Representative Baysenacker. Thank you, Mr. Chair, thank you, Representative Bottoms. I think there a couple thoughts there The first is that these processes do incur a cost to go through and I think that something to be mindful of The second is the legislature can make changes to the Division of Real Estate at any point through statute should they so desire And I think the third piece to consider is that while eight years is certainly the term limit in this body, if you look at the data, very few of us actually serve for that full eight years. So even to reduce it to that number wouldn't probably capture sort of, I think, the intent, which I share, which is some sort of institutional knowledge as to what has happened in the previous sunset. So that's why we've left it at 11 years per the recommendation. Thank you, Representative Beysnecker. Additional questions? All right, seeing none, sponsors, do you have any amendments? Committee members? Seeing none, the amendment phase is closed. Any additional comments from the committee or from sponsors? Seeing none, Madam Vice, sorry, Representative Beysnecker. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1287 to the Committee of the Whole, the favorable recommendation. Seconded by Representative Zocay. Ms. Shen, can you please call the roll?
Representative Basenecker?
Yes.
Bottoms? No.
Joseph? Yes.
McCormick? Yes.
Soper? No.
Taggart? Yes.
Titone? Yes.
Velasco? Yes.
Zocay? Yes.
Madam Vice Chair? Yes.
And Mr. Chair? Yes. That passes on a vote of 9 to 2. Congratulations. See you on the floor. All right. Let's move on to 1298. Representative Ryden, Representative Kelty, welcome.
Thank you.
Thanks for joining us. Committee members, do we have any questions for our bill sponsors? Seeing none. Sponsors. In our packet, we have a J amendment. Would you like us to move that? Would you like to describe it in any way?
Probably not. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe that's just the revised fiscal note. So, yeah, move it.
Sure. All right. It's money. Okay. Yeah, that's right. Okay.
Madam Vice Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move J001 to House Bill 1298.
Second.
Seconded by Representative Zokai.
Are there any objections to J-001? Seeing none, J-001 has passed.
Are there any additional amendment sponsors, committee members? Seeing none, the amendment phase is closed. Additional comments, committee members?
Seeing none, Madam Vice Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1298 as amended to the Committee of the Whole.
Seconded by Representative Titone.
Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representatives Basenecker.
Yes.
Bottoms. Yes.
Joseph. Yes.
McCormick. Yes.
Soper. Yes.
Taggart. Yes.
Titone. Yes.
Velasco. Yes.
Zocay. Yes.
Madam Vice Chair. Yes.
And Mr. Chair. Yes. That passes unanimously. Congratulations. See you on the floor. All right. All right, moving on to Representative Gilchrist and Representative Bradley, 1307. Welcome back. Good to see you both. Do we have any questions for our bill sponsors? Seeing none. Do you have any amendments, sponsors? Seeing none. Committee members, do we have any amendments? Seeing none, the amendment phase is closed. Are there additional comments? Committee members? All right, seeing none, Madam Vice Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1307 to the Committee of the Hall.
Seconded by Representative Titone.
Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representative Basenecker.
Yes.
Bottoms. Yes.
Joseph. Yes.
McCormick. Yes.
Soper. Yes.
Taggart. Yes.
Titone. Yes.
Velasco. Yes.
Zokai.
Madam Vice Chair. Yes.
And Mr. Chair. Yes. That bill passes unanimously. And please, next time, if you could pitch your remarks a little shorter, that would be really great. I said I feel like I need to say something. Thanks, guys. Yeah. Just kidding. All right. Finally, we have 1338 this morning.
Representative McCormick and Representative Winter.
Welcome, bill sponsors. Do we have any questions for our bill sponsors? All right, seeing none, bill sponsors, do we have any amendments?
Nope.
Committee members? Seeing none, amendment phase is closed. Any additional comments from our bill sponsors or from the committee?
All right, seeing none, Representative McCormick? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 261338 to the Committee of the Whole with the favorable recommendation.
Seconded by Representative Titone. Ms. Shen, please call the roll.
Representatives Basinecker.
Yes.
Bottoms. Yes.
Joseph.
Yes.
McCormick.
Yes.
Soper.
Yes.
Taggart.
Yes.
Titone.
Yes.
Velasco.
Yes.
Zokai.
Yes.
Madam Vice Chair.
Yes.
And Mr. Chair.
Yes. That passes unanimously. Thank you, sponsors, for being here. Thank you, committee, for being here. We will be meeting again next week, maybe twice. We'll see. See you soon. Oh, sorry. The committee is adjourned. See you soon. Next time, we're going to say, same time. Yeah, go with this. . Thank you.