Is HB26-1111 a smart ag solution or another TABOR workaround?
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
HB26-1111: a beneficial enterprise?
At my last check, HB26-1111 (linked below) is awaiting either 30-day passage or the Governor’s signature.
This is another enterprise-creation bill. It creates an enterprise which charges a fee on pesticide producers and applicators. The fee will, among other things, be used to create a program where pesticide applicators can dispose of leftover pesticide.
Per a conversation I had with my State Senator Byron Pelton, as things stand now, prior to this bill, pesticide applicators must pay a disposal company to take leftover chemical, and that price is growing more and more each year.
The enterprise created in that bill steps in with a government-run business to take ...

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