Welcome to another Monday in the state Capitol, folks. Lawmakers are settling in for a week of housing debates and efforts to limit the sharing of Big Data.
But first, the Senate is set to have the first floor debate and vote today on Senate Bill 5. The measure is the first of Democrats’ trident of immigration bills, and it would allow Coloradans to file lawsuits against federal agents if residents are injured by those agents during immigration enforcement operations.
The bill was one of the first measures introduced this session, and it cleared its first committee earlier this month on a party-line vote. It’s likely to pass the full Senate, too, and today’s vote is the first of two it’ll need before it can move to the House.
After SB-5, the Senate is also scheduled to debate initial approval for Senate Bill 18, which would automatically seal most minors’ name-changing records. That bill was significantly amended in committee amid opposition from Gov. Jared Polis’ office. The governor has also made noise about killing SB-18 entirely and replacing it with a new bill, but the bill’s supporters told us they have no intention of playing along.
Elsewhere today, the House Finance Committee is set to debate a pair of housing-related measures. First is House Bill 1065, which would set up incentive programs for communities to build up their ancillary public transit infrastructure, like signs and lighting. The bill would also create additional financial support to build affordable housing.
The committee will also debate House Bill 1066, which would give tax breaks for land that’s been purchased for the purpose of later development into housing.
Later in the week, the full House will chat about House Bill 1114, which would prohibit local governments from establishing minimum lot sizes of more than 2,000 square feet. Basically, that would allow for more density, though it would do so by tipping into the land-use debate, where local governments have opposed state intervention at length.
On the Big Data front: Lawmakers of both parties have proposed legislation that would take various steps to limit law enforcement access to personal data.
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will take up Senate Bills 70 and 71. The former would generally block government agencies from accessing license plate reader databases without a warrant. The latter is more expansive and would put restrictions on accessing technology like facial recognition software and traffic and drone cameras.
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will weigh a similar proposal, House Bill 1037. That bill would generally prohibit private companies from selling your data to law enforcement agencies.
Here’s what else is afoot this week, with schedules subject to change.
Tuesday
House Judiciary will debate House Bill 1047, a tenant-protection bill.
Wednesday
The House Ethics Committee will vote on a complaint against Republican Rep. Ron Weinberg. The legislature’s Audit Committee will receive a report on the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s DNA evidence testing program, after last year’s intense focus on the agency’s testing backlog for sexual assault kits.
Both hearings are scheduled for first thing Wednesday morning.
Thursday
The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee will debate Senate Bill 56, which would undo lawmakers’ decision last year to maintain state income taxes on overtime.
The House’s Business Affairs and Labor Committee will vote on a bill that essentially would create state-level workplace standards, in a bid to step in for lapsing federal standards and oversight. On that same front, the House’s Education Committee will vote on House Bill 1141, which would establish state-level protections against discrimination in schools.
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