Tag: long appropriations bill
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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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House lawmakers target embattled Office of Public Guardianship, reject funding for expansion
Problems with the state’s Office of Public Guardianship, as reported by Colorado Politics last month, led state House lawmakers Wednesday to halt the program’s expansion. The decision to keep the program from expanding occurred during the debate in the legislature over the proposed 2022-23 state budget. Democratic Reps. Meg Froelich of Greenwood Village and Adrienne…
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House debate on state budget is short – but not sweet
Beef sticks and nuclear power and wolves. Those are among the topics of amendments lawmakers offered in the state House Wednesday to modify the 2022-23 state budget package contained in the Long Appropriations Bill and more than a dozen additional measures designed to help balance the budget. The Long Bill and its additional measures won preliminary…