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DENVER, CO – The Executive Committee of the Legislative Council today received a report from Legislative Council Staff (LCS) on a recent pilot project to live stream and record video from legislative committee hearings. The pilot program is set to expire at the end of 2025.
Speaker Julie McCluskie, D-Dillon:
“The committee video streaming pilot has been a resounding success – viewers accessed the live streams of 35 committee hearings more than 15,000 times this interim. For example, during our hearing with state economists and department leaders on the devastating impacts of the federal GOP budget on Medicaid, SNAP and health care, viewers accessed the live stream more than 2,500 times.
“Video streaming increases transparency, improves civic engagement and helps modernize the legislative process. There is no doubt that video streaming is popular. While cost and budgetary constraints are certainly factors, I would like to find a way to continue streaming video of our committee hearings, and I want to thank our nonpartisan staff for their efforts to make this pilot possible.”
According to LCS, viewers accessed livestreamed video a total of 15,251 times during 35 committee meetings between July 30 and November 5, 2025. Nearly 60-percent of the views were related to or occurred during August’s special session.
Viewers accessed the live streams for the 10 committees of reference that met during the special session 4,500 times. The live stream was accessed more than 2,500 times for the July 30 Executive Committee, where state economists and departments presented on the impacts of HR. 1. The LCS report says the informal feedback has been “very positive” and that viewers “were especially happy to be able to see slide presentations live.”
The pilot program, for which the Speaker strongly advocated, covered five committee rooms, including the Old State Library, the Old Supreme Court Chamber, House Committee Room 0112, Senate Committee Room 357, and Committee Room A in the Legislative Services Building.
Colorado is one of two states in the nation that does not have video streaming in legislative committee rooms.