Tag: Joint Budget Committee
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Colorado lawmakers sign off on $10 million for food assistance as SNAP benefits are poised to run out
A panel of Colorado legislators on Thursday approved a $10 million cash infusion into food assistance for residents who are expected to lose food stamp benefits starting on Saturday amid the federal government shutdown. But state policymakers and budget staffers said they fear that the plan is riddled with “holes,” describing it as akin to…
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Colorado Senate committee advances bill to create 29 judgeships, with lawmaker support delicate
‘There is no time for reviewing the case before trial. I have to wing everything,’ warned one county court judicial officer
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Advancing workforce-development bills aim to give learners in-demand skills
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado legislators this month advanced two significant pieces of workforce-development legislation — one bill to create regional talent-development plans and grow an existing grant program, and another to create a system to track student success more closely. Both House Bill 1364 and HB 1365 are…
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Colorado legislature won’t increase state’s youth detention capacity — for now
Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee decided not to move forward with a request to increase the number of pre-trial detention spaces in the state’s juvenile delinquency system. The recommendation not to go forward by the committee’s nonpartisan staff cited ongoing conversations among legislators who sponsored legislation to decrease the capacity two years ago. But the committee…
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Colorado Senate Republican put Barbara Kirkmeyer on Joint Budget Committee
Colorado Senate Republicans on Friday unanimously chose Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer to be the caucus’s representative on the Joint Budget Committee. Kirkmeyer, a Brighton Republican who is halfway through her first term, replaces Sen. Bob Rankin. The Carbondale Republican was the committee’s longest-serving member, having been on JBC since 2014. He announced Dec. 1 he would…
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Candidates line up to replace Rankin, both on JBC and in SD5
Sen. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, who announced he would resign his western slope Senate district seat on Jan. 10, is leaving the Joint Budget Committee as of Monday, prompting the Senate GOP caucus to scramble to find a replacement to join the influential panel. The committee is already well into its work on the 2023-24 budget…
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Colorado lawmakers take preliminary action on PERA repayment
Despite concerns around gubernatorial opposition to making up a missed 2020 payment to the Public Employees Retirement Association, the House Finance Committee took first action this week on House Bill 1029. That measure would not only make up the $225 million payment due in 2020 that was suspended due to the recession, but also add…
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Colorado lawmakers send $36.4 billion state budget to Polis
The state House and Senate on Thursday signed off on the next fiscal year’s spending plan, but not without a few fireworks over what didn’t make it to the final budget. Notably, the two chambers agreed to reverse the Senate’s decision, which Republicans pushed, last week to add half a billion dollars in education funding. The Joint…
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COVER STORY | Is Colorado’s government expansion sustainable?
Proponents of Colorado’s TABOR designed the constitutional amendment to curb government’s voracious appetite for more spending. But Colorado’s most recognizable tax law, which turns 30 this year, hasn’t stopped the state government from growing. Not even close. Consider this: lawmakers propose to spend $36.4 billion in the next fiscal year, an amount that funds 63,349…