Transcript of SB216, Second Reading in the Senate

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Rep. Young: Thank you Mr. Chairman. The only reason you would want to vote, to keep this amendment on is if you want it delayed another step in the process with the idea that maybe there is just one little reason why it might not get adopted back into the senate so there is no reason for this to really to go on there and I said before the idea was when staff gets it matter consistency they don't look at the house and senate rules and say is this going to go through in a certain kind of way, we're the one that make the decisions on that they brought the amendment in well it needs to be done and we offered it and adopted it, purely for the reason that it was a way to keep a consistency with what we've done the titles before. It has nothing to do with the rule we don't have to adopt this report —to have bill go through but it does cause •one more step to have to be done, and that is • the senate will have to concur with house amendment. And we don't have to go through that step. Again its not matter whether its within the rules it was just a process that we went through at the time, it didn't occur to me that what we might want to do is make . sure it goes through little bit faster so we did adopt the amendment but it doesn't have anything to do with substance of the bill which, its just the change in the title. So I'm going to ask for rejection of this committee report and I hope unlike sometimes in the • past that members of my caucus are listening to the debate down here and paying attention. Chairman: Further discussion on Senate Bill 216, is Representative Plant. Rep. Plant: Thank you, I'm not certain what the fear of is of the concurrence by the • senate I mean this is I'll tell you right now, I think this is a change in water law, obviously something that in Colorado we take very seriously I don't know why were so fearful that the senate is going to either concur or not concur. Its going to go to conference on it, this is what bills go through all the time. I'm not sure what the fear is here and this is something that was adopted in the appropriation committee just yesterday, seems like the only reason to reject this is because the sponsor is afraid that its not going stand up to the mustard of concurrence and I don't see that's necessarily the case. I urge a yes vote. . . .. Chairman: Representative Spradley Rep. Spradley: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, well representative Plant you've voted against this bill at every step in the process so far and so I think your motives are some what. I will withdraw that, under my own rule. Okay, 1 think you've voted I only stated the fact you voted against this bill every step of the way. This is a technical issue its changing the title, the title does not become part of the statute, the title does not become. It is what it is and that it allows us to do the process here. It simply shortens the title. I ask for a no vote. Chairman: Further discussion on the appropriation committee report. The request before us is the adoption of the appropriation report. All in favor say I, • Vote: I • • • • .2 . .. • •