s_sa_2016a_2016-02-24t13:38:19z1 Hearing Summary

Date: 02/24/2016

01:45 PM -- SB16-037



Senator Kefalas presented Senate Bill 16-037 to the committee, along with strike-below amendment L.001 (Attachment A) and amendment L.002 (Attachment B). The bill amends the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), focusing on digitally stored data and electronic mail messages. This bill modifies the requirements for the CORA records custodian, creating a requirement that the custodian produce records in a machine-readable standard format routinely used by that custodian. "Machine readable" is defined by the bill to mean data that can be read, written, parsed, and displayed by a computer program without the need for manual human intervention.



16SenateStateVets0224AttachA.pdf16SenateStateVets0224AttachB.pdf



01:57 PM -- Geoff Wilson, representing the Colorado Municipal League, Colorado Counties Incorporated, and the Special District Association, testified against the bill.



02:07 PM -- Richard Orf, representing Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado and Colorado Water Congress, testified against the bill.



02:12 PM -- Eric Sutherland, representing himself, testified on the bill.



02:16 PM -- Matt Cook, representing Colorado Association of School Boards, testified against the bill.



02:20 PM -- Peg Perl, representing Colorado Ethics Watch, testified in support of the bill.



02:24 PM -- Katie Dahl, representing Colorado Common Cause, testified in support of the bill.



02:33 PM -- Todd Shepherd, representing himself, testified in support of the bill.



02:48 PM -- Suzanne Staiert, Colorado Deputy Secretary of State, testified against the bill.



02:54 PM -- Jeff Roberts, representing the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, testified in support of the bill.



02:58 PM -- Natalie Menten, representing herself, testified in support of the bill.





03:03 PM



Senator Kefalas wrapped up his presentation to the committee.