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2-28 House Committee amended to appropriations-1 Page 1 of 19 Madame Chair: Okay, we'll call the Committee back to order please. And I think, you know, we've had two rounds of testimony now, and we've had discussions, we need to move to the amendment phase. Are, Representative Penry, are we, are you okay with staliing in on the amendments? Rep. PelllY Yes ma'am, Madame Chair, I'm ready to - what we'll do is we can just start working though 'em and I know there are some amendments to my amendments, and so, as those pop up we'll just wait to hear for those to be offered. But all the ones I've heard, I think, are good additions to the bill. Madame Chair: Okay, Representative McKinley Rep. McKillley: I have an amendment and I would like a strike bill, the enacting clause and move this to the Water Resources Review Committee. And there's lots of study that needs to be done. We have a very fine group that come up and said they would like to work with the bill sponsor. We would like to work with the bill sponsor. We've got wagonloads of water law, we're gonna add Compact to it, we're gonna add studies, and if we break our wagon down in the middle of the road, we're out ofluck. We need to be very careful how we proceed with this. We're giving some water cOUli decisions over to a regulatory agent, we need to look at that. And we are in trouble right now with water law. It costs us $27,000,000 'cause we made a little mistake in some water laws. So let's be a little careful how we do that. We don't want anymore water fines. Madame Chair: Is there a second? Female #1: I second the motion. Madame Chair: Discussion. Representative Penry Rep. PelllY Thank you Madame Chair. With all due respect and I appreciate Representative McKinley's perspective. We've studied, we've talked, we've dithered enough. It's time for progress. It's time to start moving forward. This process, when this bill becomes law, and hopefully it will become law, that's the beginning of a month and year's long process. There is gonna be a lot of work that has to be done, and that's why I think we need to get started today, this year, not defer it to another General Assembly, not defer it to another year, not defer it to the next generation of Coloradoans. www.escriptionist.com Page 1 of 19