representatives aren't aren't catlin coleman cutter ransom rich roberts sane sandridge singer i move that the journal of wednesday april th two thousand and nineteen be approved as corrected by the chief clerk you have heard the rhyme i mean the motion all those in favor say aye all opposed so it's a great night of hockey for a great state of colorado today will be laid over one week thank you representative wilson colleagues i'm sure you notice that it was zoo day at the capitol but the ones that the zoo keepers brought aren't the only animals that are here over on my right we have the huskies from florence colorado and i certainly wish that i could introduce their teacher randy madam speaker and members today's thursday which means tomorrow is friday and the majority leader is already ahead of the game by bringing the baby in early but remember tomorrow is bowtie bolo baby and scarf and a whole bunch other thing to help celebrate our bipartisan camaraderie representative mclaughlin thank you madam speaker it's a pleasure to serve with you so everybody take a look on your desk you each received a small plant from the raise colorado coalition celebrating the approximately one hundred and eighty babies who will be born in colorado today today one hundred and eighty babies will be born to play with you that's not in my script and reminding us that the decisions we make here at the capitol impact each of those babies and their families raise colorado is a statewide coalition families forward resource and resource center grand beginnings guerilla mamas roots family center and parent possible that takes collective action to promote bold public policy and change public perceptions regarding the health and well being of pregnant people new families infants and toddlers colorado supports all colorado's children and families during the prenatal period through the earliest years to ensure healthier communities a stronger workforce and a more robust economy now and into the future thank you colorado general assembly for making babies and their families a priority this legislative session and into the future and let's welcome our guests from raised colorado standing in the back please stand and give them a round of applause for their hard work colorado families four representative singer thank you madam speaker i have two announcements to make first of all for all of you that love free lunch the children's caucus has actually been postponed until next week in deference to the weather and making sure that everyone could get to where they need to go so we will not see you today but we will see you hopefully next week for a great discussion with doctor wells among  many other experts in our child welfare field on another note i'm going to try and not break any rules by not breaking two rules at once i know i'm not supposed to announce interest groups i'm not supposed to talk about bills but there is a bill up later that has been going through the process for years and there are members in the gallery almost a decade now they're members in the gallery that are here to watch that today so on that bill that she shall remain unnamed until third reading and for the group that shall remain unnamed thank you for being here to be part of the moral arc of the universe and thank you for your tenacity and please join me in welcoming them like to present a tribute will you please read the tributes mister randol members please please be quiet in the chamber animals representing five hundred and fifty species many of which are threatened or endangered denver zoo is the most visited cultural destination in colorado committed to conservation by bringing science education to life and providing extraordinary experiences that foster human and animal connections located in denver city park the zoo is a nonprofit organization accredited by the association of zoos and aquariums which assures the highest standards of animal care with the mission to secure a better world for animals through human understanding denver zoo commits more than two five million dollars annually to field conservation for programs around the world the colorado general assembly recognizes the denver zoo for it's remarkable one hundred and twenty three years serving the community and is pleased to have an and aquariums to support animals through voluntary programs like the species survival program a breeding program that facilitates the survival of many species by keeping zoo populations healthy and abundant they have over three thousand and six hundred mouths and beaks to feed at the denver zoo it is one of the only zoos in the country that has a full time curator dedicated to the animal behavior and enrichment programs finally the denver zoo's animal care team includes ten veterinarian teams seventy nine keepers and twelve animal curators and supervisors who work together to provide the finest state of the art care to animals around the clock i would like to note that none of our friends at the denver zoo none of their friends were harmed in the making of this and i would like to also welcome to the chamber representatives from the denver zoo please do stand and my favorite representative from denver zoo azul who is our feathered friend over in the corner please stand to be acknowledged by the chamber  thank you so much for all that you do thank you denver zoo for joining us today and bringing some of your feathered and non feathered friends madam speaker this is the first time i've come up on third reading in my career i want to thank the taxpayers of colorado thank you so much for everything you do and i think it's important enough to talk about this issues because of how we're going to spend the taxpayers money in colorado we all know that april th is a day your taxes are due i have a lot of friends that are filing their taxes and in the federal government in the state we pay a lot of taxes and in this environment where many are talking about eliminating the taxpayers bill of rights roads are not paved our schools are not funded infrastructure is crumbling and we'll probably ask for a tax increase sometime in the future we have this bill house bill nineteen twelve thirty nine and i think we have to really understand what this bill does and why it is so concerning to so many of us it's a it's six million dollar funding of a very heavily funded already from the federal government two eight billion dollar funding census outreach i i'm concerned that in the shadow of government funding  organizations like acorn and government community organizing from organizations like planned parenthood that there's concerned about where taxpayer money goes in an environment of community organizing this is a project that is a federal responsibility and already funded by the federal government i do believe that we will need to track this money as we track so much money that is going to left leaning organizations and in the end end up in our communities as community organizing it's important that we understand this is a federal program it's already funded by the federal government we have significant needs in the state of colorado and we're going to spend six million dollars on a duplicated effort that will end up being community organizing taxpayer funded in our communities it'll be interesting to see where this money goes i would ask for a no  representative tipper as we've discussed and as we have tried to show you with the numbers the the federal census is going to be different this year different than every other year prior we know that we stand to lose a lot of critical funding for all these areas that my colleague mentioned transportation healthcare education critical dollars if we do not make a very modest investment in this cens will not draw down those federal dollars so this is something that we will actually be able to deliver dollars to every single one of our districts i asked for a yes vote on this critical bill thank you representative sain thank you madam speaker and i just want to address a very terrible rumor i heard going around this building and in the lobby but i'm hoping no a local elected officials ever says something like this but something to the  of it doesn't matter if they're citizens or not we need to count them because we need that money for infrastructure well according to again what the census is created for and what's on page three in this bill a precise count is vital to guarantee neech say it receive survey that goes on every single year but the decennial census is for expressly this purpose and so i would call that ill gotten gains if anybody is saying something to that effect and because that particular amendment was not accepted yesterday i am concerned that even those local government officials that you know want to make sure this is an accurate count of citizens for that purpose they receive funding that they otherwise would not receive because we are not we are accounting non citizens this is really important and that's why very concerned not only for the future of colorado in this country but i'm also concerned about those local governments receiving what they should be receiving based on an accurate and precise count like i said there's other mechanisms to determine how many folks reside in that district whether there are citizens or not that is acs there's also multiple questions regarding home ownership and a lot of other things too i think something yours it's up to eighty questions so there are other surveys going on it's not this is something that i think this particular one i'm just concerned that we may be counting more people than we should be counting in some of these these districts i don't want to put anybody in that situation i don't want to put anybody you know in a compromising position so if  members i just wanted to add a little bit more information from our debate that we had yesterday i think it's so critical that we pass this bill and there's some very important budget reasons so i bring to this discussion the lens of the jbc that work that we are in the middle of right now and setting our state budget about a third of the thirty billion dollars that we spend from the federal government and many of those funding streams from the federal government are based on the information that comes out of the census in statute in federal statute we get money based on the count so if we don't get this count right we know that over a ten year period the state will lose about twenty thousand dollars of federal funds for every person we fail to count every single mis person has an impact on the state budget of about twenty thousand dollars so small mistakes add up over the course of the ten years in between this census we have to get this right we have to get it right because it's the right thing to do because of political representation of course that's the direct reason it's in our constitution but it also has serious implications for our state budget and that is why it's so important that the state make this investment this is an investment to get the count right so that we get the proper amount of federal funding and that we can do our job in this state it is absolutely appropriate it's absolutely correct for us to make this community survey that would be different but again we will not lose any money because the spill didn't pass there are surveys that are conducted every single year that are extremely detailed extremely detailed and we can still receive funds based on that decennial census again the number one priority that the senio census is to make sure we have an accurate count for representation in congress and house representatives and draw in our legislative districts that should be our highest priority this bill confuses singer mckean soper please close the machine with forty one i've oats twenty three no votes and one excused house bill twelve thirty nine is past co sponsors please close the machine assistant majority leader kennedy thank you madam speaker i moved to lay over the balance of the calendar until friday april th seeing no objection the balance of the calendar will be laid over til friday april th announcements and introduction wednesday at one thirty we will not be meeting thursday upon adjournment so monday and wednesday one thirty next week representative gray transportation local government committee i mentioned this yesterday but it has been confirmed we will we have not had our last meeting we'll be meeting on monday afternoon at one thirty p m we will meeting next week representative mclaughlin thank you madam speaker and for those on the education waiting with bated breath our times have not changed you do not need to reorganize your brain we will still be meeting  plans representative singer thank you madam speaker members of the public health care and human services committee we will be meeting on friday to hear three bills but we will not be meeting next week so thank you all for your service look forward to seeing you on friday representative roberts thank you madam speaker rural affairs in agriculture we will meet upon adjournment at eleven o'clock and next week we will not be meeting either monday or thursday representative lundin thank you madam speaker know the health and insurance committee is not meeting today but our schedule will be changing next week and i just wanted to make sure everyone is aware  we will be meeting next monday afternoon at one thirty and we will not be meeting tuesday upon adjournment we will also have our regular wednesday meeting so meeting monday not meeting tuesday still meeting wednesday thank you health and insurance committee representative kennedy thank you madam speaker state veterans and military affairs committee scheduled next week is not changing we are still meeting on tuesday and thursday afternoons at one thirty the bills listed in your printed calendars are the ones we are planning to hear unless additional bills are assigned representative jackson thank you madam speaker i neglected to no that energy and environment we will be meeting upon adjournment but i'm going to give you like fifteen minutes fifteen minutes we'll see you at eleven representative hansen thank you madam speaker and members of house appropriations it is time to begin our more intense work i'm gonna go with intense we've got quite a lot of bills to get through in the next several weeks and we will start that more intense schedule tomorrow morning male speaker members how many of you are interested in mental health and suicide prevention i can see one little member right there good so monday april  is the last veterans caucus we will have an expert there to talk to us about this you need to rsvp to jerri if you want lunch and remember there's information on the back of your flier that talks about the people in your counties and the age range that commit suicide who have been in the military members i have one announcement lant representative landgraf roe substitute for representative williams state affairs today only and i hope you all heard the change in committee schedules for next week that is know upon adjournment committee so we can maximize time on the floor for second and third readings and slight changes in the afternoon schedules any other announcements or introductions assistant majority leader kennedy thank you madam speaker i move that the house stand in recess until later today seeing no objection the house will be in