A program that offers grant money to help mitigate the potential for wildfires would be expanded to focus more on rural areas with the least resources under a bill that won preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Friday.
House Bill 1057, introduced by Reps. Terri Carver, R-Colorado Springs and Julie McCluskie, a Dillon whose district includes part of Delta County, is one of several that came from the Legislature’s Wildfire Matters Review Committee over the summer.
A companion measure, HB1004 that’s partly introduced by Rep. Perry Will, R-New Castle, would create a new income tax credit program to reimburse landowners who do their own wildfire mitigation work.
That bill is to get its first hearing in the House Finance Committee later this month.