Modify 2026 Interim Committees

      Executive Committee of the Legislative Council. The bill modifies legislative interim committee activities during the 2026 legislative interim (interim). Specifically, the bill:

• Prohibits the legislative council of the general assembly from prioritizing any requests for interim committees, including task forces, for the 2026 interim;
• For an interim committee that meets during the 2026 interim, limits the number of bills the interim committee can request to be drafted to 5 and can recommend for introduction to 3;
• Prohibits members serving on statutorily created interim committees from receiving per diem and travel expenses for attending interim committee meetings during the 2026 interim;
• Prohibits meetings, field trips, and legislative recommendations and reports by, and suspends for one year certain reports required to be submitted to, existing interim committees, including the capital development committee; legislative oversight committee for Colorado jail standards; American Indian affairs interim committee; legislation inside advisory council review committee; Colorado health insurance exchange oversight committee; legislative oversight committee concerning the treatment of persons with behavioral health disorders in the criminal and juvenile justice systems; pension review commission and pension review subcommittee; legislative oversight committee concerning tax policy; and sales and use tax simplification task force;
• Prohibits meetings and other activities of the transportation legislation review committee and the water resources and agricultural review committee during the 2026-27 state fiscal year; and
• Repeals the legislative emergency preparedness, response, and recovery committee and the statewide health care review committee.

      The bill decreases the appropriations in House Bill 26-1333, concerning the payment of the expenses of the legislative department, for the 2026-27 state fiscal year for the legislative department as follows:

• The general fund appropriation for the general assembly is decreased by $126,971;
• The general fund appropriation for the legislative council is decreased by $161,162, and the related FTE is decreased by 1.9 FTE; and
• The general fund appropriation for the committee on legal services is decreased by $108,336, and the related FTE is decreased by 1.4 FTE.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)