H_SA_2020A 06/09/2020 02:39:18 PM Committee Summary

Speaker Becker, co-prime bill sponsor, presented Senate Bill 20-200. The bill directs the Colorado Secure Savings Program Board to implement the Colorado Secure Savings Program.  Speaker Becker answered questions from the committee.

Treasurer Dave Young, representing the Department of Treasury, testified in support of the bill. He answered questions from the committee.

Carl Larson, representing the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, testified in opposition to the bill.  He also provided written testimony to the committee (Attachment A).

Written testimony was submitted to the committee (Attachments B through J).

Speaker Becker explained amendment L.012 (Attachment K).  Treasurer Young answered questions from the committee.

Speaker Becker explained amendment L.013 (Attachment L).  She answered questions from the committee.

Speaker Becker provided concluding remarks about the bill.

Minority Leader Neville and Majority Leader Garnett, co-prime bill sponsors, presented Senate Bill 20-186. The bill updates existing statutory provisions to conform with new constitutional requirements related to congressional and state redistricting.  It creates two new accounts in the Legislative Cash Fund (fund), the Congressional Redistricting Account and the Legislative Redistricting Account, and transfers $1 million from the fund into each account for the purposes of funding the work of the commissions.  Finally, the bill directs Legislative Council Staff and the Office of Legislative Legal Services to assign individuals to staff the redistricting commissions through a number of nonstatutory provisions.

No one testified in person on the bill.  No written testimony was submitted to the committee.

Majority Leader Garnett and Minority Leader Neville made concluding remarks about the bill.

Majority Leader Garnett and Minority Leader Neville, co-prime bill sponsors, presented Senate Bill 20-214.  The bill prohibits legislative interim committees from meeting, taking field trips, and making legislative recommendations during the 2020 interim. 

No one testified in person on the bill.  No written testimony was submitted to the committee.

Minority Leader Neville made concluding remarks about the bill.

Representative Weissman, bill sponsor, presented Senate Bill 20-181.  The bill makes changes to competency reports provided by evaluators, makes changes related to bond release for defendants who are incompetent to proceed, and allows for certain charges to be dropped when a defendant is incompetent.  Representative Weissman distributed a handout to the committee (Attachment M).

Representative Weissman answered questions from the committee.

No one testified in person on the bill.  Written testimony was submitted to the committee (Attachment N).

Representative Weissman made concluding remarks about the bill. He answered questions from the committee.

Representative Cutter and Representative Esgar, co-prime bill sponsors, presented House Bill 20-1422.  The bill creates the Food Pantry Assistance Grant Program in the Department of Human Services.  Representative Esgar answered questions from the committee.  Representative Cutter provided an informational packet to the committee (Attachment O).

Jason Harrison, Hunger Free Colorado, testified in support of the bill.  He provided a handout to the committee (Attachment P).

Written testimony was submitted to the committee (Attachments Q through V).

Representative Cutter and Representative Esgar made concluding remarks about the bill. Committee members commented on the bill.

Representative Jackson and Representative Duran, co-prime bill sponsors, presented Senate Bill 20-170. The bill amends the Colorado Employment Security Act to eliminate the documentation requirement for workers separating from employment because of domestic violence, expand the definition of immediate family, and substitute severance allowance for remuneration. 

Daniel Chase, Department of Labor and Employment, testified in support of the bill.

Lydia Waligorski, representing Violence Free Colorado, testified in support of the bill.

Written testimony was submitted to the committee (Attachment W).

Representative Jackson and Representative Duran made concluding remarks about the bill.