April 9, 2026 · 103,672 words · 19 speakers · 652 segments
Thank you. The house will come to order. Today the national anthem will be sung by Tess McHugh.
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Oh, that was beautiful. Thank you, Tess. Today, the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Maddox, Merrick, and Miles Selmeski from El Paso County, guests of Representative Lori Garcia Sander. Will you please join us for the pledge?
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the public for which stands one nation and an individual with liberty and justice for all.
Mr. Schiebel, please call the roll.
Representatives Bacon, Barone, Basinecker, Bottoms, Bradfield, Bradley, Brooks, Brown, Caldwell Camacho Carter Clifford Representative Clifford DeGraff Representative DeGraff Duran English Espinoza Foray Rep. Furey Flanelle Froelich Garcia Garcia Sander Gilchrist Representative Gilchrist Goldstein Gonzalez Hamrick Hartsook Jackson Representative Jackson Johnson Joseph Kelty Rep Kelty Excuse. Leader. Lindsey. Luck. Lukens. Mabry. Marshall. Martinez. Morrow. McCormick. Wynn. Pascal. Phillips. Richardson. Ricks. Representative Ricks. Excused. Routanel. Representative Routanel is excused. Ryden. Sirota. Slaw. Smith. Soper. Representative Soper. Excused. Stuart K. Stuart R. Story. Representative Story. Excuse. Sucla. Taggart. Titone. Valdez A. Rep. Valdez. Excuse. Velasco. Weinberg. Here. Wilford. Representative Wilford. Excuse. Winter, Woodrow, Woog, Zokai, and Madam Speaker. Here. With 57 present, 8 excused, we do have a quorum.
Representative Woodrow.
Good morning, Madam Speaker. It's an honor to serve with you.
It is an honor to serve with you.
Colleagues, I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say there are some days we wish we didn't have a journal. Yesterday being one of them. But, alas, that's not how it works. And everything we do is chronicled for the stake of posterity. And so therefore, Madam Speaker, I move that the journal of Wednesday, April 8, 2026, be approved as corrected by the Chief Clerk.
Members, you have heard the motion that the journal be approved as corrected by the chief clerk. All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, no.
No.
The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Members, announcements and introductions, Representative Garcia Sander and Representative Johnson.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. Today, I want to just read a quick tribute, if that is okay.
Please proceed.
Thank you. Today is Home Education Day in Colorado, and we have the Christian homeschool educators in the Capitol. And I would like to just read this tribute because the Senate is reading a Senate joint resolution to honor them today. Colorado declares the right and obligation of parents to choose the proper education and training for their children. The members of the Colorado House of Representatives are thereby proud to recognize April 9th 2026 as Home Education Day in Colorado The Colorado House further recognizes parents who educate their children at home for their continuing sacrifice and commitment toward producing graduates who are successful and productive citizens because of the values, education, and training they have received from their parents. Home-educated students are civically engaged, are well-socialized, and score above average on standardized academic achievement tests. We are proud to honor, celebrate, and thank home educators and their children for their dedication to educational excellence and for their contributions to their communities.
Representative Johnson. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Today you will see a lot of homeschool families. I encourage you to talk with the parents, but more so talk with the students on what they love best about being able to have a flexible education program that fits their needs and what projects they are working on. Depending on today's schedule, just so you're aware, at 11 o'clock on the steps, there will be a home education event happening, but they are around the building. They're sitting around, up in the gallery, on the floor, so please reach out to one of
these homeschool families, and thank you. Representative Garcia-Sander. And if we could just have those who are part of the homeschool education group stand up, just so we could recognize you, that would be great. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Representative Carter.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. Please join me in welcoming the distinct women of Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Incorporated. On April 9, 1990, Sigma Lambda Gamma was founded in Iowa City. 36 years later is now the largest growing multicultural sorority in the nation and is celebrating 36 years as public servants, academics, and community collaborators. Rooted in the empowerment of all cultural backgrounds, the GAMMAs are committed to uplifting both their local communities and the world. Through service in elementary schools to advance literacy, organizing park cleanups to protect our environment, marching in strides against breast cancer to raise awareness and support critical causes and extending a warm hand through philanthropic efforts with the American Red Cross to exemplify what it means to lead with purpose, proudly extending their impact through continued partnership with the community. The Gammas are rooted in cultural awareness, academics, morals, and ethics, and community's shining light on the beautiful diversity of Colorado. Thank you to our very own Colorado Gammas at the University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, CU Boulder, Colorado College, University of Denver, CU Denver, and Metro State University. Thank you for your leadership. And one of the gammas is my wonderful aide, Bella. So thank you.
Thank you all and welcome. Representative Hamrick.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I just want to remind everyone that the Great Education Lunch is today at the Baptist Church at 1230. Please come and meet these great education leaders of our state, who we owe a huge debt of gratitude for so many things they do for our schools and our students. Thank you.
Madam Majority Leader.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. pursuant to House Rule 27B, Madam Majority Leader. We will stand in a brief recess.
Thank you. Thank you. The House will come back to order. Thank you, members. We were accommodating our guests. So glad we had our Pledge of Allegiance readers this morning. Members, we're moving into second reading. Speaker Pro Tem Beisnecker.
Members, you have heard the motion. Seeing no objections, Speaker Pro Tem Basinecker will take the chair.
Thank you. Thank you. . Thank you. Thank you.
It's okay, you're fine. The committee will come to order. With your unanimous consent, the bills will be read by title unless there is a request for reading a bill at length. Committee reports are printed and in your bill folders. Four amendments will be shown on the screen, on I legislate, and in today's folder in your box account. Bills will be laid over upon the motion of the Majority Leader. The coat rule is relaxed. Madam Majority Leader.
Madam Majority Leader. Thank you, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem. Pursuant to House Rule 27B, I move to suspend the reading of House Bill 1410 again in order to lay the bill over to the end of the special orders calendar later today, April 9th, at which point the reading will begin.
Members, for your information, this is a non-debatable motion pursuant to House Rule 27B-4. The question before us is whether to suspend the reading of House Bill 26-14-10 again in order to lay the bill over to the end of the special orders calendar. Later today, April 9, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, no.
No.
The motion passes.
Madam Majority Leader Thank you Mr Speaker Pro Tem I move to lay over 1410 until the end of the special orders calendar 1410 will be laid over until the end of the special orders calendar
Mr. Sheebo, please read the title of House Bill 1357.
House Bill 1357 by Representatives Sirota and Taggart, also Senators Amabile and Bridges, concerning phasing out the teacher recruitment, education, and preparation program.
Okay.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1357.
And the committee report.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This bill...
Rep. Sirota, I need you to move the committee report as well.
Oh.
There was an amendment in appropriations.
Oh, and I have an amendment to the appropriate report.
All right. All right.
I move House Bill 1357 and the Appropriations Report.
To the Appropriations Report.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. In House Appropriations, we made a technical amendment to the Appropriations Clause, but it was merely technical in nature, I ask. but I do have another amendment to the appropriations report. So with that, I move L-003 and ask that it be displayed.
That is a proper motion. One moment, we'll get it displayed. The amendment's before us. Please proceed. Rep. Sirota.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. L-003 is again simply technical adjustments to the various numbers in the Appropriations Clause of the bill, and I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on Amendment L-3? Seeing none, the question before us is the adoption of Amendment L-3.
Representative Goldstein. Thank you, Speaker Pro Tem. I have a substitute amendment I'd like to offer, L005.
Great. And you'll just say I move L005 as a substitute amendment to L003.
Okay. I would like to move L005, a substitute amendment to L003.
That's a proper motion. One moment. We'll get it displayed. We'll take a brief recess.
Thank you. Thank you Thank you Thank you. Thank you.
The committee will come back to order. Representative Goldstein.
Thank you, Speaker Pro Tem. I withdraw my motion for Amendment L-005.
The amendment is withdrawn. We are back to the underlying Amendment L-003. Seeing no further discussion, the question before us is the adoption of Amendment L-3 to House Bill 13 to the Appropriations Committee report. All those in favor, say aye.
Aye!
All those opposed, no. The amendment is adopted. Back to the committee report. Seeing no further discussion, the question before us is the adoption of the appropriations... We're on the Appropriations Committee report. Seeing no further discussion, the question before us is the adoption of the appropriations committee report. All those in favor, say aye.
Aye!
All those opposed, no. The report is adopted. To the bill, Rep. Sirota.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This bill is the phase-out of the Teacher Recruitment and Education Program, which is a program that was started with a bill in 2021, back when we were in a different financial situation for the state. It is the Supporting Educator Workforce in Colorado bill that created this TREP program, And it is an educator pathway program where students can essentially stay in high school for a fifth and sixth year while being concurrently enrolled in post-secondary education to get a teaching degree. The goal is to keep students in Colorado excited about being teachers and hopefully teaching in our state. I think these are worthy goals but I will also say it is a very similar mechanism and setup to another program that we last year decided to phase out and terminate early because it also it sets up an inequitable I think situation for our students in terms of who is actually able to access program who it is actually serving It not a means program Any student can enroll in this program It is currently serving I think, 193 students, but it is capped at 250. So it's a small group of students costing not an insignificant amount of money. And currently, these students are being paid, the schools, high schools, are being paid at a rate of around $10,000 per student per year, which is greater than the amount that a student would cost if they were enrolled in a community college taking these same classes. And so what the bill does, in addition to ending the program early so that no new cohorts of students will start, but we will allow the students who are already in their fifth year currently to complete their sixth year next year. Those students will be able to finish out the program, but the schools will be paid at a rate of $7,000 instead of the $10,000. And I can appreciate that this is creating discomfort for some of these families and students who expected to enroll in this program in the fall. But none of these students are prevented from continuing to get this education at the community college, at the college where they were going to be receiving this education anyway. They can still do that. They can still access financial aid if they are eligible for financial aid. But again, what we are trying to do is prioritize the limited state dollars that we have to fund core services. And while I think this program is a nice thing to have, it is not core services. We weren't able to put additional general fund toward the school funding formula this year. So everything additional will have to come out of the state education fund, which is already under stress for the next two years. Our ability to actually fund the formula as it stands now is significantly challenged. Every dollar that we spend out of the state ed fund on another program like this is a dollar we don't have to spend for our students and teachers in our classrooms right now. And because there are other pathways for these students to engage in post-secondary education, we believe it is the equitable and responsible thing to do to wind down this program early.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem and Mr. Chair as well. We listened to testimony very carefully on this bill in appropriations. And one of the concerns was the lateness. I am here to tell you that the schools across the state, and I think I have knowledge of this because when I'm not here, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach students at a university level. The students that are in this program that are taking these concurrent courses will be welcome at any state community college or state university. It does not change that whatsoever. Those roles are not closed. And I can tell you from having led that side of things, they are not closed. And those schools where these concurrent courses were taken would happily take these students. In addition to that, almost every school in this state has a promise program for teachers, even to the degree of writing off potential debt that they might have over their four years or five years because of the shortage. so while they need to at this point apply to the school of their choice or schools of their choices they will be happily admitted and I am certain that they will get full tuition and financial aid if they want to live on campus. I also, and I know one of my colleagues said this, if any one of these students have problems with this, I have opened up my phone to say, I will help you. Because I have been there with students on a constant basis. So I understand we're giving them short notice. But I fully respect what our chair said. this is a program that if we were flush with cash, we would continue. We just can't. And the alternatives are there. And these students will not be dropped by any stretch of the imagination. Thank you.
Further discussion? Representative Goldstein.
Thank you, Speaker Pro Tem. Thank you, JBC members. I understand where you all are coming from on this. For those of you that we talked to yesterday, we talked to many of you on both sides of the aisle, and we felt like we were looking really deep in the couch cushions. We started out with not doing CMAS social studies, and then we realized that wasn't going over too well. Then we went and talked with the governor's office a couple of times, and the marijuana tax fund was offered, and that was not the best avenue. And then late last night, there's a little bit of money left over in the electric bus fund. So it's great if these kids do find other avenues to get to where they want to be, but if they can't, if there's an opportunity for these ones that were banking on this program happening, that was where we were trying to go with this. And so because of procedures, we know now that that won't be an option in here, but hopefully in the Senate. And then one other thing is not to end the program, but to pause it, because someday maybe we can bring this program back, because this program has, I've watched it flourish in Adams 12, and I've seen it happen in St. Vrain, and we have 29 school districts participating, and knowing that we do not have a crop of teachers willingly going out there and becoming teachers, whatever we can do to at least keep this thought going would be great.
So thank you. Further discussion on the bill? Representative Bottoms.
Thank you, Speaker Pro Tem. This particular bill is falling in line with a handful of others that I've been struggling with. from watching them come through a probes, watching people come and discuss these in a probes that there are many different bills that we are bringing to the floor yesterday today tomorrow however long it takes us to get through these that are things that the state has said we're going to give this money to this program, we're going to give this money to this program, whatever the situation is. And people have planned things around this. We dealt with the four or five bills yesterday that said this money was going to be given to the ride group and all these different entities that then we come back later. And because we have so messed up our budget, because we are so far in a hole, because we have spent irresponsibly for quite a few years now, and because we have pet projects in this room that we will give money to. This is what I keep saying about this entire budget, but this bill is a perfect example of this. We've got all kinds of subjects that we will not touch. We will not take money. Hundreds of millions of dollars in different places. These are the pet projects of this side of the aisle, not this side, that we will not take money from. We've asked. We've said that these are not okay. These are social issues, moral issues, financial issues, Second Amendment issues, all kinds of things that we have said. You can stop attacking the citizens of Colorado. You can stop attacking our economy. You can stop going after us and you can move this money from here to here. And we, we gave many examples of that yesterday too. This is another example where there are people that were depending on this. There are students that were depending on this. And I know personally about 15 students that have, I've talked to or have emailed me that said that they, they literally passed up scholarships for this. They passed up scholarships to go to other universities, quite healthy scholarships, that all they had to do was say, yes, I'll take that sign on the dotted line. But they were promised by the state of Colorado that this program would be there and that they could be funneled into becoming a teacher in the state of Colorado and say they let everything else go to the side so that they could do this one plan. And the reason was because they were promised by the state of Colorado that it exists, it's there for them, and it would be financed. Now, whether I agree with every single one of these different bills that we've been doing, because some of these, I don't agree that they should have been funded. I don't agree that it should have done this. But once the state has done this, once the state has signed that contract called a budget, which is, in my opinion, not balanced, it's a goofy thing, it's a shell game, that we have not balanced this budget, and I could spend all day proving that, but once we sign this contract and say, you get this money, you get this money, you've got to do this. We've heard over and over these last few days how people have negotiated their entire life around these things that the state is promising them, that their businesses are organized around this, their mortgages are organized around this, their futures, their directions are all organized. organized around the state saying, we have a plan, a program, you can be a part of this program. And then when they do it, then we pull it out from underneath them and say, sorry, we don't, we're no longer going to do this. We've got students that were depending on this. Their future has been depending on this. They have made the decisions for the last few years, depending on this this one program And now we just coming and saying nope sorry done we don have enough money Which we do have enough money by the way We just spending it on things that this side is the priority and the governor says is the priority Our side doesn't get to choose priority. In the four years I've been here, we do not get to choose priority. We do not get to choose one line item in the budget, not one. Every single one of them are decided by this side and are knocked down on our side. And then when people come and say, well, we had this program, we had this plan, and then the state responds with, we don't have the money. I have been so discouraged in appropriations over the last few days. When people have to come there and say, now we know that this is a tight budget year, and we know that there's got to be hard decisions made. Give me the budget. Let me decide the budget. Not only would we be not in debt, but we would have a lot of programs that should not be in that budget that are irresponsible, unethical, and in my opinion, illegal. But we still have them in the budget. And then we tell people that have been planning, we tell seniors in high school that have been planning this and planning this and planning this, oh, I'm sorry, we have to cut your entire program. Why? Because we don't have the money. No, we have the money. It's just in places that is not for seniors in high school after they've been promised. It's not for elderly dental care that was promised. It's for other priorities. That's the problem that we're having here is priorities. We have almost a $47 billion budget. You're telling me we don't have money? No. You need to go look in the budget where the money is going. We have the money, but where is it going? It's going to very bad ideas, very bad programs that are hurting. In fact, a lot of the reason we have all of these homeschoolers here is because we have had bad ideas in public education, bad ideas that are being moved financially through our public education. And so we do have the money for these seniors. It is there. It was promised to them. And this is horrendous that we would now look at them and say, just kidding, we're taking it back from you. Why? Because you are not important enough to make the priority list of this side of the room. That's the problem here.
Seeing no... And welcome to our guests. It is decorum and rule in this House that we do not clap or otherwise engage in the debate on the floor, and the same is true for members in the Chamber. Thank you for everybody for abiding by our process here. Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1410, and the question before, excuse me, 1357. The question before us is the adoption of House Bill 1357 as amended. All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, no. The bill is adopted. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title, House Bill 1358.
House Bill 1358 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Mobley and Kirkmeyer, concerning reducing an appropriation for the Colorado Academic Accelerator Grant Program.
Representative Brown.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1358. To the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This bill reduces the appropriation for the Colorado Academic Accelerator Grant Program by $5.2 million in general fund. The program is a grant program that supports the development of community learning centers that provide free academic enrichment activities to help students in science technology engineering and math The program is similar to federal or other state out time grant programs but particularly focuses on math enrichment Unfortunately the funding for this is ending after the following fiscal year, and we will not have the money to continue the program using general fund. This bill will make sure that the program can step down appropriately so that families can find other sources of these services over the next year, and then the program will end in July. Any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the adoption of House Bill 1358.
All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The bill is adopted. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1359. House Bill 1359 by Representatives Sirot and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning crediting to the state public school fund money received from the removal of natural resources on public school lands. Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem. I move House Bill 1359. To the bill. This bill is about revenue that is earned on public school lands and is distributed today for very specific purposes. Anything that is above and beyond those specific purposes is deposited in the permanent fund. And what this bill does is both for the present fiscal year, 2526, and next year's budget, is it diverts dollars before they go into the permanent fund of $25 million in 2526 and $45 million in 2627. and it needs to be done, as I said, early on before it goes into the permanent fund. This is another one of those bills that we need to do to balance our budget, and I would ask for a yes.
Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1359, the question before us, sorry, Representative, excuse me, Assistant Minority Leader Winter. Thank you, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem.
And the reason I rise to speak about this bill is I recently had a constituent reach out to me that leases land near Pritchett, Colorado. And he recently received a letter that there is going to be a green energy project on this land. And he, in his letter, was basically told that once it comes under production, that the state has the ability to give him a year's notice to end that land lease. This family has been leasing this land for generations. And I just want to put it on the record that as we put these energy projects up, number one, we talked yesterday about the reason that beef prices are so high is because cattle herds are at an all-time low in Colorado. Then we take a generation or a rancher who has leased state land that now they're going to put windmills on, and then they're going to come back and tell them in a year that it's out of production. so not only has it not helped the cattle market and it's not helped feed your families cheaper not only has it taken production land out from a rancher to bring the cattle herds up a generational rancher that will hurt his bottom line and now the lease that he pays to the state this money is going to be taken out of the till too so I mean I have to put that on the record I just recently joked out with this like a week and a half ago and he's just upset and then to see how this is all going to shake out and in the budget crisis that we're in and we're I mean that's like a three-way hit
so I just wanted to put that on the record. Representative Tigard.
Thank you Mr. Speaker Pro Tem and thank you Assistant Minority Leader. I want to stress that I appreciate what you're saying, but I want to come back to the fact that this bill is only royalties and leases on public school lands owned by the state, not leased, but owned by the state, and these royalties come from those. I appreciate there are other leases out there, but not for this particular program.
Any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the adoption of House Bill 1359. All those in favor say aye.
All those opposed, no.
Does that make sense? The bill is passed. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1360.
House Bill 1360 by Representatives Brown and Tigard,
also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the Affordable Housing Financing Fund. Representative Brown.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1360 to the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This bill transfers $130 million from the Affordable Housing Fund to the General Fund. Proposition 123, which was approved by voters, diverts income tax revenue to the Affordable Housing Fund to pay for affordable housing programs. 40% of this revenue is transferred to the Affordable Housing Support Fund for use by DOLA and HICPUF, and 60% is transferred to the Affordable Housing Financing Fund for use by the Governor's Office of Oedit. This bill transfers $130 million out of the Oedit portion into the general fund so that we can achieve balancing this year. This is a tough bill, but I will note that the original voter-approved measure contemplated difficult budgetary situations like this and allows for this transfer, and so we ask for an aye vote.
Any further discussion on House Bill 1360? Representative Bottoms.
Thank you, Speaker Pro Tem. This is another example of what I just said. But this one goes another level. Prop 123 was voted in by the people. This is directly from a ballot measure that the people of Colorado voted in. This wasn't even just the state of Colorado promising the people of Colorado something through a program or plan that we voted in in this room. This actually came from the people of Colorado voting in Prop 123. and now we're going to pull that back. We're going to take changes. We're going to cut it. This is not okay. There are people, this is specifically counties. This is specifically counter-leadership. These are municipalities that fought for this, got the people out to vote. It got voted in, and now we're telling these municipalities, sorry, the money's not going to be there. You thought it was because the people voted it in, but we the state are way bigger than the people We the state rule this place and now we going to take your money back This is another contract from the state of Colorado but actually the next layer that was initiated and enforced by the people that this room is supposed to back up, the governor's office is supposed to back up, but just like we did with Prop HH, just like we've done with many other things, that the people voted something in. Now we're going to come back and say, nope, we're the ones in charge. We're bigger than the voters. We're bigger than anybody. And we're going to take your money back. And there's nothing you can do about it. This has got to stop.
Further discussion. Representative DeGraff.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is just another reason why we need the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, why we need to have these discussions, why taxes can't just be raised arbitrarily because the state is out of money like it will always be out of money. Because that is the nature of the beast. There's never enough of somebody else's money when the entire basis is taking somebody else's money. And that's socialism. Socialism is taking other people's money. It is the entire basis for it. That's why the assassins want to take Tabor.
Representative DeGraff. Representative DeGraff. Rep DeGraff, you were warned yesterday about using that word in the well. Turns out today's rules are just the same as yesterday's. I will ask you to refrain from language that characterizes the motive of another member, avoiding personalities pursuant to House rules.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The member in question was quite proud of my...
Rep DeGraff, this is not a debatable question.
I'm not debating.
Rules are the rules, and I will expect you to abide by them in this chamber.
So, Tabor, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, is a very important document for the citizens of Colorado, for the tax widgets of Colorado, that you have a say in your taxes. Now, here, I don't agree with this program. This is just a great example of an emotive hook, just emo bait, put on a big old hook, and then sunk into the jaws of the citizens of Colorado and pulling you along. Because the citizens of Colorado didn't just say, hey, would you like to have a raised tax for some general application, some general fund application. But that's what they got. They're under the – and now here we are. we're passing lots of new affordable housing, which is really not well defined. Affordable housing just means you're not paying more than 30% of your income for housing. So you can have affordable housing that is made, very expensive affordable housing made. It could be made for two incomes. Most homes are based on two incomes because that's what our tax code is based on now, forcing both parents into the marketplace. So that's where we are. But here we have $130 million that was tax-tracted from the citizens of Colorado that they gave. They said, you know what? We believe the gaslighting about affordable housing. We going to believe that And so they gave permission to the state to take some extra money million And then what does the state do It says ah we want to use that for something else We want to use it for something else. So this is an emo bait and switch. And that's what's really good. That's what this General Assembly does very, very well. Now, I think this money could probably be better spent because most of the taxpayers in Colorado are saying, I don't understand why we're building more affordable housing when we have an excess of housing, when we have excess vacancies. Because we know why housing is expensive. We know housing is expensive because government regulation adds a third to the price at least. and then we know in order to defray those costs into the house because there's certain fixed costs like all of the permitting and all that stuff it doesn't matter whether you like for instance the most expensive property on Havad Yod is a five by five building it's 25 square feet or something like that it's the most expensive square footage on in on the on the yard because it's five by five because it has a certain set of fixed costs that have to be defrayed. Instead of by 1,000 square feet, those costs are defrayed into 25 square feet, something like that. Maybe it's three by three, something like that. It's a guard check, something. But it's known to be the most expensive. And so you take these things and then you say, well, the only thing for a developer then to make his property profitable, you have to build larger homes. Well, those larger homes are then more expensive, and then you complain that those larger homes into a market that you foobarred is fouled up beyond anything recognizable, is too expensive. And so then you have to take some other means, when really what you need to do is get your boot off the face of the economy, stomping over and over and over. and so you went to the people of Colorado and you said we need 130 million dollars for affordable housing now how much would that do 130 million dollars 130 million dollars and say a house is around let's just make it a cheap house a hundred thousand dollars you're looking at like what a 1300 homes or something like that so you're you're really not solving the problem we've got We've got more homes that are going in, more apartment complexes. Apparently the governor's vision for Colorado is for everybody to live in a shipping container, stack one on top of each other, in a true Calcutta-Rado style. But here we have a problem in that the state did a bait and switch. Did a bait and switch. Went to the citizens of Colorado, said this is what the money will be used for. The citizens of Colorado said we agree. So citizens of Colorado, here's your lesson learned. Legislation 101, what it says it is, it ain't. The second one would be if it can be weaponized against you, it will be weaponized against you. And both are true. And here we're looking at what it says it is, it ain't. Because they said what it is is to help affordable housing, and now they just want to roll it into the general fund. Not going to deal with the million from the health care policy financing the fraud that was found there Now could that be used for that Well that just money that we didn would have not spent otherwise. But we're not dealing with those structural issues. Here we're dealing with, we're dealing with money that shouldn't have been collected. It shouldn't have been a government program. The reason the housing in Colorado is so expensive is this room. It's the regulation in this room. It's the jumping up of, say, things like the asbestos regulation that are going to make any roof repair job, any drywall over one sheet job, have made it into a hazmat proposition. So anybody with actual property that, any property that they don't actually live in, so what is it doing? It's forcing it into corporate hands, forcing mom and pops out of it. It's taking affordability away from Colorado because of the regulations in this room. Could we fix that? Yeah, we could fix it. I have a bill. I submitted a late bill request to fix that. Take it back to federal standards. It won't be approved. but it is unconscionable, or should be unconscionable, obviously it doesn't bother anybody's conscience, that the state, that the General Assembly went to the citizens of Colorado and said, we want money to solve this problem, and then in the quiet of night, in the two days that we're supposed to get this budget passed through the House that they said, oh no, we're going to sweep that into our general priorities, into the general fund. So citizens of Colorado, just know that that is the level That is a level of integrity with which the government, the General Assembly, treats the citizens of Colorado.
Further discussion on House Bill 1360. Representative Bradley.
Good morning, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem.
Good morning.
I also have questions because I have heard a couple of bills going through about clarity in the ballot initiative process. And we've come up here to speak about that. And so my question is, if the voters approve Proposition 123 in 2022, and a question, honestly, to set aside ongoing tax revenue for affordable housing, and I see that the Joint Budget Committee is allowed to transfer the money, but why? And why should we? If the voters approve the proposition to set aside the tax revenue for affordable housing, then why then, when we overspend and don't balance our budget, do we just get to, with one sweep of the pen, transfer $130 million from the affordable housing financing fund that the voters approve through a proposition, through the ballot, then just get to transfer that money to the general fund? If we are trying to pass legislation that clarifies the ballot initiative process, that says, oh, now, if we run these ballot initiatives, they have to come from three pools of money, How does that work? So the citizens drive this ballot initiative process and they pull from these three pools of money and then the JBC or the legislators just then get to, with one fell swoop, get to say, no, now we're going to take that pool of money and we're going to fund the general fund. I want make it make sense because the taxpayers said okay you've got us we are going to buy into this we are going to say yes we are going to give that money to affordable housing and now we have overspent we have blanketed policy to give to this program and this program and this program second year in a row third year that we've had to have a special session another year we're in a fiscal crisis where we're at the last minute trying to find money and now we're robbing Peter to pay Paul, actually taking from the taxpayers that approved a proposition in 2022, set aside for affordable housing, and the General Assembly can just take that money, $130 million, and transfer it to the state's general fund. I don't understand it. I think our constituents are completely confused by it, that they vote on something to go to a specific pot, and we've passed two different bills in here to provide clarity to ballot language. So now are we going to say, okay, you can pass this initiative, but know that you can set aside this money, but if we're in a fiscal crisis because of policies being made, we can actually strip that money and then add that money into the general fund. Is that going to be an aside in the blue book and on the ballot language? Because we're passing bills in here to clarify ballot language. So is there going to be a little aside? I would love to know that. Because the voters approved this for affordable housing. They didn't say when you're in a budget crisis, now you can take that money and apply it to the general fund. I don't think the voters would approve this. They want us to start balancing the budget within our means, not taking from a proposition that they approved $130 million for the Affordable Housing Financing Fund, not to go to the general fund. Thank you.
Representative DeGraff and then Representative Joseph.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I am wondering, just based on the, is this program going to be canceled going forward? So it's not going to be canceled going forward, but we already know that it's going to be swept into what, into a fund, a general fund. It's not affordable housing tax. It's not a tax to pay for affordable housing, subsidized. It's now a tax. It's now a general tax. Because this will happen next year unless something drastic changes in the state as to where the economy is going because the economy did not reach this point accidentally. The economy was driven to this point. The housing was driven to this point. Now whether it was accidental or intentional it doesn really matter It was driven And now we have a ballot initiative out there that was to raise taxes to help offset affordable housing The good people of Colorado said, we want to help make housing affordable. Now the only way you're going to actually make housing affordable is to eliminate why it was made unaffordable. That happens in November. But right now what you have created is you have created a long-term bait-and-switch by taking this and saying this is a general fund. This is now a general fund tax no matter what we said to the citizens of Colorado. Yes, I get it. It was in there that maybe the General Assembly will sweep this money into something else. But now we've demonstrated that we have. And now we're going to have even more regulations. So now I think we should be able to say that no more bills on affordable housing, because what we've said is we don't need any more bills on affordable housing. And then to say, well, we don't have enough money for affordable housing because we swept the money into something else, I don't get it. I don't get it. It was something that we shouldn't have done. We made a promise to the citizens of Colorado, the General Assembly. The state of Colorado is obviously not a good faith actor with things like this. And why are we doing this? Because there's other funds that are untouchable. There's the fraud that we're not allowed to dig into. I would feel a lot better about the cuts that we're having to make if we had dug into the fraud first. Because we know it's there. We know it's there. if we dug into the fraud first before we renege on the promises to the citizens of Colorado.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I really appreciate what my colleagues are bringing to this conversation, but I think it's important to clarify a couple of things. First off, this was not ever a distinct tax, ever. This was a diversion. The ballot item was a diversion of income tax. I believe it was 1% of 1%. So it was a diversion. And in that ballot measure, because people were concerned when they wrote this ballot measure that there may be times that we were challenged fiscally and this did not add additional revenue. It's a diversion. And that's why the ballot item was very clear that the legislature, if it had to modify this in any given year or cut it back or divert it, in this particular case to the general fund and programs that this body was entitled, was, that's not the right word, had the authority to in fact do this. So please, if we talk about this, do not talk about it from the standpoint that this was an additional tax. It never was. It was a diversion of existing state income tax Representative Joseph and then Representative English
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Members, we are facing a significant budgetary shortfall, and I want to start by acknowledging the members of our Joint Budget Committee who are working incredibly hard to balance competing priorities during a very difficult time. These are not easy time. At the same time, it is very important for me to come down here and speak on this particular orbital because more than 50% of my district are renters and for whom housing instability or stability is not an abstract issue but a daily concern. Colorado is facing a housing crisis that touches every corner of our state, from fast-growing urban centers to rural mountain communities in the eastern plains. That's why the comments that you will hear from me today will be not different from the comments you probably have heard from Red Bottoms. families are being priced out workers are struggling to live near their jobs too many coloradans are one unexpected bill away from losing stable housing that's why voters came together in 2022 to pass proposition 123 a landmark commitment to invest in affordable housing This measure created a dedicated funding stream of roughly $300 million each year to support housing development and homeownership across Colorado. What makes Proposition 123 especially meaningful is the partnership it represents. Today, more than 200 local governments across Colorado have Aptin, representing the vast majority of our state's population. These communities made a commitment to increasing affordable housing, to streamline development, and to be part of the solution. And returns the state committed to supporting that work. As we navigate this budget, I think it is important that we do everything that we can to uphold that partnership. Because the reality is, affordable housing does not happen without sustained investment. Developing housing that is affordable to working families is complex and expensive. Rising land costs, construction materials, labor shortages, and financing gaps all create real barriers. Even strong projects can struggle to move forward without the right financial tools. That is the rule of Proposition 123. It helps communities to secure land, close financing gaps, and move projects from concept to completion. It provides the stability and predictability that local governments and developers rely on to deliver housing. We have already seen meaningful progress with projects underway across the state serving teachers nurses service workers and seniors My concern is that any disruption to this funding could slow that progress and create uncertainty for communities that have stepped forward in good faith As we make difficult budget decisions, I hope we can keep in mind the importance of maintaining momentum on housing and supporting the partnership that we've already built. Protecting Proposition 123 funding to the extent possible means supporting projects already in the pipeline, providing certainty to local governments and continuing to respond to one of the most pressing challenges facing our state. I look forward to continuing this conversation with our chamber because it is really important to ensure that our community members have access to housing that is obtainable and affordable, and Prop 123 is one of those tools. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, members.
Representative English.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem. I wanted to come up here and speak briefly for my district because I was back here reading about the Affordable Housing Financing Fund, and I had to read it a few times. then I began to process and think about different things. But specifically speaking for and to my district, affordable housing is very important. And what's happening in my district right now is we're seeing a lot of apartments being built, tiny cottages and things like this. But these are not homes, particularly speaking about the tiny cottages, that you can actually purchase. And it's important to my district to become homeowners, those that are not, and create generational wealth for their families and their children. And this here is a tough pill to swallow with the funding being removed from the Affordable Housing Financing Fund. And it says the bill directs the state treasurer to transfer $130 million from the state Affordable Housing Fund to the general fund. and makes three corresponding adjustments to the Affordable Housing Financing Fund. And I just want to level set and say that I agree that when Proposition 123 was on the ballot, voters did come together to pass Proposition 123 in 2022. And it created a dedicated funding stream of roughly $300 million each year to support housing development and home ownership across Colorado that would be affordable for our communities. And I think Proposition 123 is something that we should be protecting. And we've already seen some of the impact for Proposition 123. It's helped fund hundreds of projects of affordable homes across Colorado. And that's what the voters wanted. And right now, if the progress is at risk, because funding is being taken and redirected somewhere that the voters didn't vote for it to be redirected to, it does risk undermining the very communities that stepped up to participate. I was one out there campaigning for it, just like many of us and people in our districts. We cannot ask local governments to lead on housing and then pull the rug out from under them. We can't expect more housing without investing in the tools to build it. And this is what Prop 123 is. And we cannot solve a statewide housing crisis without sustained, reliable funding. And I think this funding should stay where it is for affordable housing programs. Protecting Proposition 123 dollars means protecting the pipeline of affordable housing projects that's already underway and happening. It means local government certainty so they can plan, invest, and deliver for the communities they serve. And it means, most importantly, honoring the will of Colorado voters who said clearly housing affordability matters through Proposition 123. So I think we should be standing by that commitment, and we need to protect Proposition 123 funding and support the communities, our communities, that's doing the hard work. and we need to create an atmosphere where people can afford to live in the communities that they want to raise their kids in and some people that have been there for years and not being priced out because of cost and we need to do everything in our power to ensure that we're protecting funding that the voters voted on. And I'll just stop right there. But I will say the only way, it's not, well, one of the ways that you can create generational wealth is through owning a home to pass down to your children or your children's children. And that's important to my district, and that's important to the families of my district. So I had to come up here and speak about what the voters voted for because I know there were several people in my district and in my community pushing for Proposition 123 And we should honor the will of the voters. Thank you.
Representative Kelty.
Thank you, Speaker Pro Tem. and I want to talk about this and what I'm kind of seeing. This bill is interesting to me. Prop 123 was supposed to be a vote measure by the people saying, yes, we agree to give this certain amount of sales tax, property sales tax to affordable housing across Colorado. That's what this was for. Let me tell you how I see it and why I think this is happening in this bill. I see it as an all-time flim-flam on the Colorado voters. I see this as fraud in its rawest form. You got people to vote for Prop 123 saying it's for affordable housing. but the thing is now the legislature is now able to take I call it stealing but take from that fund whenever Tabor is in a time where it allows it to be taken from so when Tabor is not going to be able to give back to the people then they're able to actually come in and take the money out of the fund. Well, they keep stealing from Tabor and stealing from Tabor and stealing from Tabor. Tabor's never going to be in a position where they can't steal from the fund. It authorizes a one-time $130 million transfer from the Affordable Housing Finance Fund to the General Fund. That's not what the people voted for. That is not what they voted for. This allows now money to be taken out of this fund without the voters' choice, without the people of Colorado, what they meant Tabor to be, to give their approval to spend this money. So by the passing of Prop 123, the voters didn't realize they were opening a piggy bank for the legislature here to just spend away. I think that's shameful, and I'm highly, highly disappointed. This money was meant for one thing, and now, without the people even knowing, it's going to be used for something else. Let the people be warned. Voters, pay attention. They're out to get your money.
Representative Luck.
Thank you, Mr. Chair Pro Tem.
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning. I have a couple of questions about this surprise. I'm wondering, I think I'll just, do you prefer just to have them all at the same time or one at a time? It doesn't matter. We'll do one at a time. Okay. So the first question I have is as relates to the prioritization of the remaining dollars, because my understanding we have a bucket of money, not really sure how much is fully in that, but of that bucket million is moving over to the general The remaining dollars for Prop 123 are to be distributed in an order of priority with the concessionary debt program then the equity program then land banking I just wondering why that particular priority set was embraced as opposed to a different one I really don know enough about the programs but just curious as to why that is
And Rep Luck, I know it's a little unorthodox, but it's existing statute. That's existing statute. So it is not a new measure in this bill. It is existing statute in terms of the prioritization. Thanks for obliging me an opportunity to chime in. Rep Luck.
Thank you, Mr. Chair Pro Tem Plus, like, answer of all questions. That's wonderful. Thank you. All right. So that decision was made long ago. Still don't know why, but, you know, there was a reason, I guess, that that happened. The next question that I have is as relates to the admin expenses. So it's my understanding that whatever this pool of money is, let's say it's $500 million, the admin expenses are calculated off of the pool of money. We're now taking $130 million out, but we're not altering the calculation for the admin expenses to reflect that. So there is still that amount of admin expenses that is currently being paid on the whole being paid under this bill. And I'm just wondering if, I can imagine why that might be, but I'm just wondering what the rationale for that is, as opposed to allowing the admin expenses to go down by the same amount that we are taking out.
Representative Brown.
It's a one-time thing. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I do feel like you should be down in the well here answering these questions. But I will just say that we are – I know that there's interest in making sure that the remaining money is prioritized appropriately and that some of the lowest income folks maybe see some prioritization related to the remaining fund. I know that's a policy that doesn't really fit within the confines of this bill, but I understand that there might be some other people in our chamber or elsewhere that are working on that. So I would encourage my good colleague to engage with those legislators as well. Representative Luck.
Thank you both for the conversation.
Okay, so here is where I very much would like to understand the dollars. But my understanding of this program is that when we have a TABOR surplus, we can't make a transfer from this fund, from Prop 123 dollars, over into the general fund. But when we are strapped for cash, we can. It's my understanding that 2025, and that's considered for those listening, a TABOR surplus year. So in a non-Tabor surplus year, we can steal the money. In Tabor surplus years, we can't, because presumably there's an understanding we have the dollars. This year, 2025-2026, is a non-Tabor surplus year, but 2026-2027 is projected to be, sorry, is a non-Tabor. Next year, we're expected to have Tabor surplus. So we pulling out a one million in order to by law because we can only use those dollars in order to help supplement the 26-27 budget, we're pulling them out in order to help supplement the 25-26 budget, and that's $130 million. But when I look at the budget overview and the approved changes in the long bill in order to true up the 25-26 budget, that only equals about $73 million. So are we taking out, what is that,
80-some more than we need to? How do we get $130 million when the true up is only $73 million?
Representative Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
So the transfer happens on June 30th of 2026, which is the current fiscal year. And since we are under the cap in the current fiscal year, we are allowed to make that transfer. That money then is utilized into the next fiscal year under our state budget rules. So this is a transfer that is done in the current fiscal year when we are under the TABOR cap that benefits the following fiscal year when we are over the TABOR cap.
Representative Luck.
thank you thank you for that and thank you Mr. Chair Pro Tem but it's a bit concerning to me because it feels a little bit you know like if we're not allowed to actually move it in 26-27 because it's a violation of law to move it technically in 25-26 but to apply to 26-27 seems just seems a bit
problematic to me. Representative Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I mean, another way to think about it is that we are adding to the reserve this particular year for the general fund, and then that reserve that we have now added to is benefiting the next year's general fund.
Representative Luck.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Pretend thank you for that answer. I still have some struggle with that. I understand the logic. I just don't know that I see it as consistent with the spirit of what the voters asked for, but I do appreciate the conversation. So thanks, guys.
Further discussion, Representative DeGraff.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Appreciate you being there for any phone-a-friend kind of things. And I'll try to color inside the lines.
I think we're going to do great, Rep. DeGraff.
Yeah, thank you. Getting along swimmingly. So this is really interesting. I think it's very educational and it's a great opportunity to talk about how these things work. So I'm looking at the actual Blue Book language. And, of course, my colleague is right, so let's unpack what that means. State Affordable Housing Fund. The State Affordable Housing Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, commencing January 1, 2023. All state revenues collected from an existing tax on one-tenth of one percent on federal taxable income as modified by law of every individual estate, trust, and corporation As defined in law as calculated pursuant to subsection 4 of this section, shall be deposited in the fund by the state treasurer. The revenue deposited in the fund pursuant to this section, meaning in accordance with this section, shall not be subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending specified in section 20 of article 10, or article X or article 10 of the state constitution. Section 20, Article 10, is known as the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. And just for specificity, it was added by voter initiative in 1992 over the will of the General Assembly and imposes strict limits on state and local government taxing, spending, debt, and revenue growth. It requires voter approval for many tax increases and new debts. And new debts. mandatory, apparently not for things like certificates of participation, mandates refunds in excess of revenue, and includes enforcement of mechanisms. So we say, okay, well, this is coming out of an existing tax. And that existing tax, because it says from existing tax on one-tenth of one percent on federal taxable income as modified by law of every individual estate, et cetera. Why is it in the blue book? Because it's coming out of an existing tax. Well, the reason it's in the blue book is because it's a tax increase. The reason, and that is required by the taxpayer bill of rights, because it is a tax increase. Why is it a tax increase? Well, because if you take revenue in excess of the cap placed on the budget, based on the citizen-imposed reins, placed on it by the voter initiative in 1992, if we are going to exceed that, then that money has to be returned. so what this is and here's how these things work as I said before it's the emo bait the emotional bait to get you to bite on the hook and so this emo bait is affordable housing and it does have a definition and that is that the cost for rent would be less than 30% of 60% of the average median income or for a mortgage it would be less than 30% of 100% of the average median income. Still based on 30%, even though previous legislation made 50% the revenue. So how does this work? So why is it? So if you have a tech, and this is not a prop, Mr. Chair, this is just the document of the four pages that people were expected to read through, one, two, three, four, five pages that people were required to read to, and sort through this. And sure enough, just like my colleague said, it's here in the fine print because the entire thing is fine print. If the legislative council staff's March economic revenue forecast in any given year projects revenue for the next state fiscal year will fall below the revenue limit imposed under Section 20, Article 10, under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights of the State Constitution the General Assembly may reduce the funding allocated to the office required by the section for the next state fiscal year in order to balance the state budget So I think here we have, since we're already past March and we're talking about the March revenue economic forecast, and the forecast next year is saying that we're going to be somehow magically in the black. Yay. I mean, that trend was reduced in 2025, so the downward slope of the 22.5% of inflation under biodynamics is apparently expected to turn around. So I don't know what happened in 2025 that might turn our economy in the other direction, but I'm encouraged that we are. So anyway, so how does this work for the citizens of Colorado? Okay, the kiddos are gone, so I can't explain it to them. I got in trouble for talking in their direction last time. So if there is an income tax and it's going to be above the taxpayer bill of rights limit, let's say there's a delta right here, this amount of money would normally have to be returned to the citizens of Colorado because it's an overtaxation. So the emo bait here for this proposal, this why it is a tax increase, is to say that any time there's going to be more revenue than the limits imposed by the citizens of Colorado in 1992, any time that we are going to have more revenue than that, the General Assembly is going to take it for a pet project. And we'll call it affordable housing. It doesn't really matter. The whole point is just to take it. Why? The point is to take it so that you don't get any refunds under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. So that way people will think it's all about refunds, and then they'll say, hey, go ahead and cancel that Taxpayer Bill of Rights. It's the thing that stands in the way, not realizing that the only reason that they have a say in tax policy is the taxpayer bill of rights. The only reason that anybody puts together a blue book to ask the citizens of Colorado whether they think they should be taxed more is because of the taxpayer bill of rights. now since most citizens in Colorado say no I don't need to be taxed more I don't want to be taxed more then we come up with five pages of fine print in order to circumvent the intellect of the citizens of Colorado with a bunch of legalistic garbledygook so how does this work what is this program the program anytime that we're going to have more revenue than the Tabor cap the General Assembly will take it. And then we have the fine print over here. If the Legislative Council staff's merchant economic revenue forecast in any given year projects the revenue from the next state fiscal year will fall below the revenue. So now it's going to fall below. Well, then it would start impacting other pet projects. Maybe education. And so then the fine print is you're only going to give away this money it's a tax increase anytime the General Assembly happens to take more money than is allowed than the citizens allowed in 1992 So the citizens said stop here And so the General Assembly said well we just going to take 1 of 1 of your income tax an already existing tax and we just going to divert it into this fund And I'm going to guess that most people didn't read that and say, okay, we're diverting that income tax. So yes, it is a diversion of that income tax, but no, it is a tax increase because any time the state exceeds, revenue exceeds the taxpayer bill of rights, the limit that the taxpayers put on their spending, it is an automatic tax increase. So what the citizens of Colorado voted in place, what the taxpaying widgets of Colorado put in place with this title, with this very duplicitous ballot initiative, is they said we would like to have our taxes increased any time the state revenue exceeds the limits that we placed on it in 1992. Because the entire idea since 1992 has been to eliminate the citizen input in the taxation of the citizens of Colorado. There's nothing, citizens of Colorado, the tax paying widgets of Colorado, there's nothing that drives this General Assembly more batty than the fact that they don't have enough of your money. The tax policy in this room is to get more of your money. It's not to spend it wisely. It's to get more. The purpose of promising everything is to take it. That is socialism. So this whole thing, it is a diversion. Yes, my colleague is correct. It is a tax increase. Yes, it was in the blue book. Anything in the blue book, pretty much, is a significant change in tax policy. And if it comes out of this room, it is a tax increase. That is the only solution that this room has to overspending. Because it doesn't have a spending problem, this room thinks it has a not enough of your money problem. So this whole thing, the affordable housing, gaslighting, more gaslighting about affordable housing, is basically a ruse that they need to keep up despite record numbers of vacancies. They need to keep up the ruse of needing affordable housing in order to continue to take more money. And so here they're taking money. Anytime that there is going to be money, buy this, buy this. Again, what it says it is, it ain't. Saying that we're just going to divert it. The diversion is anything above the limits that were imposed by the citizens in 1992 to protect themselves and their progeny from the insatiable appetite, the insatiable addiction that this body has to more taxation. And now it just comes down to that it fallen below that level and so they want to make sure that their pet projects are funded Because they don have access of your money to take they want to make sure that nothing is taken from their pet projects Because affordable housing is not their priority, taking your money is. Just flat out, taking your money is. If they want to make housing more affordable, get rid of the one-third of the cost on a home that's caused by excess of regulation. Get rid of the increase in asbestos regulation that just amped it up to more than a bundle of shingles, that creates more than a bundle of shingles or more than one sheet of drywall. turns that into a hazmat incident, turns a remodel job into a Superfund site, literally. So if this body wants to decrease the cost of housing, this body only needs to look as far as this body because this body is responsible for the cost of housing. This body is not interested in affordable housing. It's interested in taking your money. It's interested in taking your money. Anything that's over the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, this says the General Assembly will take because affordable housing for the children, whatever. Whatever buzzword gets you to bite onto the hook and say yes to the Blue Book Initiative, So citizens of Colorado, whether you're paying attention or not, some of you are, I know, and I appreciate that. If it's in the blue book, it's a tax increase. This is a significant tax increase. With an escape hatch to make sure that the other priorities that they actually have are funded. So it's not a diversion of your income tax. It's not a 1% of 1% diversion of your income tax. it is a tax increase. It is always a tax increase. Whenever this program is funded, it is a tax increase. Whenever it's not funded, this program just makes it go away because it's not actually a priority and it's not actually needed. There is so much wrong with the way this General Assembly does business and does it and gives the business to the citizens of Colorado every single day. It is really rather nauseating.
Seeing no further discussion, the question before us is the adoption of House Bill 1360. All those in favor say aye.
Aye. All those opposed, no.
The bill is adopted. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1361.
House Bill 1361 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the repeal of the Pay for Success Contracts Program.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1361. To the bill. So this is a repeal of the Pay for Success Contracts Fund and the dollars that are remaining in this cash fund of $1.6 million will move over. to the general fund. This program was put in place between ourselves and private investors clear back in 2015. And over that 10 plus years, there were three contracts. That's it. And the last of which ended in 23-24. So we are taking the remaining balance and bringing it over into the general fund. And I ask for a yes vote.
Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1361, the question before us is the adoption of House Bill 1361.
All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no.
House Bill 1361 is adopted.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1362. House Bill 1362 by Representatives Therode and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the repeal of the decarbonization tax credits administration cash fund.
Representative Serrata Thank you Mr. Chair I move House Bill 1362 To the bill Thank you Mr. Chair This bill repeals the decarbonization tax credit administration cash fund and it sweeps the unencumbered and unexpended balance to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year the decarb tax credits are still operational There is just a different financing mechanism, so it will be a straight general fund appropriation each year instead of this complex mechanism.
Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1362, the question before us is the adoption of House Bill 1362. All those in favor say aye.
Aye. All those opposed, no.
1362 is adopted.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1363. 1363. House Bill 1363 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Mobley and Bridges, concerning a temporary reduction in the general fund reserve.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1363. To the bill. This bill temporarily lowers our statutory requirement to have from a 15% reserve to a 13% reserve. in order so that we may balance our budget for the coming fiscal year. And I'd ask for an aye vote.
Further discussion on House Bill 1363? I've got Representative Marshall and then Representative DeGraff. Representative Marshall.
Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. I move Amendment L-002 to House Bill 1363.
That's a proper motion. One moment. We'll get it displayed. Please proceed.
Members, this is the first part of a two-part piece where we are planning on rating $45 million from the unclaimed property trust fund. It's actually $72 million, but $45 million of it is coming out of the corpus, from the principal. The other $27 million is for interest. The $45 million is coming straight out of the trust fund principal and the corpus. We're not even pretending anymore. This is not a 20 interest no loan which anyone who been in business knows if you told the IRS that and looked them in the eye they say turn around and let us handcuff you. That is not a loan. But we're not even trying to pretend anymore. We're swiping $45 million out of the corpus, which is not our money. It's in a trust fund, the unclaimed property trust fund, held in trust, private property. We are already in a lawsuit. The Treasury of the State of Colorado is already being sued for swiping money out of the trust fund, a Fifth Amendment violation, according to the plaintiffs, of private property shall not be taken without just compensation. We have no statute on the books that I know of, because we've talked about it multiple times, no statute on the books that at some point unclaimed property will escape to the state and default to the state. If we had that policy in place, it would be appropriate. it. We don't know what property is coming out of there. It's all fungible, and I understand that. A lot of it's not fungible, though. A lot of it's actual physical items that would need to be sold at auction if we had a proper esquete statute that we could use, but we don't. We're just swiping $45 million that does not belong to the state and saying it belongs to us now. I think that's totally inappropriate. So this first amendment just gives a little bit more out of the reserve so that we can have an honest budget with honor and can look at the taxpayers of the state and say we're taking this hit. We're not just swiping private property to balance our budget. So I ask for an aye vote.
Further discussion on L2? Rep Bottoms or Rep Sirota? Rep Sirota.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I ask for a no vote on this amendment. Understanding that we are talking essentially about two different bills, but we will get to the unclaimed property trust fund transfer bill. But members should know that within that bill, we are stopping the transfer that has been occurring year after year to pay for the adult dental fund within Medicaid. That transfer will stop going forward. Yes, we are taking some money from the UPTF this year, but that's essentially in exchange for stopping a transfer that has been ongoing for several years now that is in the $60 million range. also though we did not move the reserve from 15% to 13% lightly we did it trying to balance our budget and trying to ensure a softer landing for the cuts the ongoing cuts that we are having to make to programs across state government but in particular in Medicaid because that is the part of the budget that is growing at a pace that is unsustainable. But those additional cuts to keep a 15 reserve would have meant significant harm I think to the people of Colorado So instead we are moving the reserve to 13 However members should know that the Joint Budget Committee for the last two years has been given an overview of our general fund balance forecast and doing what has been referred to as a stress test on the reserve to show what would happen if the General Assembly moved into any sort of a recessionary situation. So just so folks are clear, if we were to head into a moderate recession, that would require us to move to immediate emergency cuts because we would have exhausted our entire reserve. We wouldn't be able to fund what we are funding now if we hit a moderate recession. And I read the paper yesterday, and folks' anxiety is significantly up in terms of their anxiety about the direction of our economy, war in Iran, gas prices sky high. We are in a very precarious position. And lowering the reserve below 13% is highly inadvisable, It isn't necessary. We can balance the budget at a 13% reserve. I ask for a no vote on this amendment.
Representative Bottoms. I thank you, Speaker Pro Tem. I do think my colleague from Douglas County did get, he conflated two things here, but I understand what he's saying because he's right. the unclaimed property tax fund by the way the unclaimed property trust fund I asked during appropriations and I was told that we are not taking any from the excess percentage income it's all coming from the body of it I was told that in approves and the statement was by the assistant chair of approves that we used up all of that interest a long time ago. So you're right, but you can even be more right on the next one. So when we get to that, we are actually just taking money. Every single penny we're using right now from that, and I'll come back up on that bill when we get there, that we're using from the unclaimed property trust fund actually has people's names attached to it. Every single penny of it, not any of its interest now. We're using people's money that belongs to the people of Colorado. But on this amendment, I don't think we should go down to 13%. I think 15% is what we need to be at. The reason they're doing stress tests and all of this for this is because this is the reserve that is set into statute that we have to have and that going below this is extremely ill-advised and so I'm not okay with going from 15 down to 13, much less any other changes along the way. This is a very bad idea. We continue to make very, very bad decisions in this room and now we're wanting to bail ourselves out with the reserve that we have which should not be touched. The reason it's called reserve is because it is there when a real recession happens. We're trying as hard as we can in this room to get us into recession but we're not in full-blown recession yet. When that happens that reserve has to be there. This is a very bad idea to do any changes to this. We need to stay at the 15 percent. We cannot go down to the 13 because the taxpayers the rest of some of the article that was just mentioned too is saying that the um that the people across the state of colorado are not okay with what the leadership of our state is doing in this arena the leadership of our state which is all democrat um governor this room democrat senate democrat they are saying that they are not okay with what the democrat leadership is doing and that's why the numbers are falling so quickly um for the democrat party is because of budget issues, because of crime issues, because of all these different things that are decided in this room. Going from 15 down to 13 will put us in jeopardy because we know that the bad decisions that are being made in this room will continue to be made. And so we cannot lower the reserve. The reserve and Tabor are the only hope that we have to combat the left in this room. And we've got to stay strong on this. It should not go to 15 to 13. It should not go any lower. where it should not be pulling money from anywhere to prop this up. Just stay at 15 and try to figure out how to deal with the money like anybody else in the state of Colorado has to do when things get tight. And the reason things are tight, this side of the room. We've got to stop it.
Representative Luck. Thank you, Mr. Chair Pro Tem. So this is an interesting conversation because it does put us into the shoes of the JVC, frankly, in the sense of trying to balance different priorities. We need to find money to pay for certain things. And the JVC is presenting in the underlying bill being discussed here the idea of tapping into our savings. tapping into our household state savings. And that is concerning. It's concerning in light of what was pointed to with all of the geopolitical dynamics going on as well as the different drought dynamics going on in our state, whether that's for fire or agriculture. We are on the precipice of some potentially very hard times where having some savings in the bank will be important for us. reducing those savings in order to cover other programs is not something that I'm comfortable with, recognizing we will probably have to draw into those savings more and more. It's one thing when you're cutting all of the programs you can cut, and then you need to get into your savings. It's another thing when we're looking right now at House Appropriation Committee bills pending, that total nearly 230 million more dollars. We're continuing to spend. We're continuing to create new programs and make new promises, all while saying, well, we'll just dip into our savings, savings we very well may need in the not-too-distant future. And so my general stance on the underlying bill is that we shouldn't go that direction. We should fine the dollars from other places.
But this particular amendment creates even more challenge because what is being done here is connected to another bill. That other bill is saying we're going to pull money from the unclaimed property trust fund. In essence, the bank account that belongs to individuals and companies and what have you in our state. actually belong to the state of Colorado, we hold it in trust. We're the fiduciary over it until such time as people claim their money. These are dollars that come from when you move and the utility company has a refund for you and can't get to you. And so they send those dollars after a period of time to the state with your name tied to it so that you can claim that and get those dollars back. And the other bill that this amendment is pointing to says that we should be able to tap into those dollars, not the interest that is made on those dollars, but the actual dollars themselves, the people's money themselves, the principal, in order to cover our shortfall. And so what this amendment says is, no, no, no, no, no, we can't take out of somebody else's bank account. If we don't have the money, we need to take out of our own savings. and that creates this tension for those of us who don't want to be taking out of the savings at all. And yet, it's even worse, I think, I agree with the amendment sponsor, to be taking out of someone else's bank account in order to pay for the things we refuse to cut, especially since, as I mentioned, currently sitting on the docket of the Appropriations Committee is an additional $230 million worth of sending. So I think I ask for an aye vote on this amendment. Representative DeGraff.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Rainy Day Fund. To the families of Colorado, that usually means a recommendation of three to six months. You should be able to cover your expenses for three to six months. That's 25% to 50%. And here we are, not because we have a revenue problem again, but because we have a spending problem. Instead of coming into this session with all the tools on the table, taking apart all of the budget, not just the part of the budget that the JBC is allowed to see, but all of the budget, line by line, where we would vote on priorities of the General Assembly and rebuild that budget, bolt by bolt, nut by nut. Piece by piece. Nope. What we're going to do is we're going to dip into the Rainy Day Fund. We're going to dip into the Rainy Day Fund because, and then we do this stress test that it's only going to be 15, well, we don't really need 15%. We only need 13%. Possibly because the idea is to always go into the citizens' pockets of Colorado. But if the state of Colorado, of course, the state of Colorado, Colorado has really no regard for the status of the state of Coloradans. Just a general idea that the citizens of Colorado are keeping far too much money in their pockets The tax paying widgets of Colorado have no need for their own money according to the General Assembly We have things like talking about Medicaid Is it an unsustainable growth Why? Well, programs like funding medical care for illegals, a $14.7 million program now capped at $95. We should feel good about that. We've capped a $14.7 million program at $95 million. And we wonder why it's unsustainable. Unsustainable growing at 8% per year means it doubles every eight years. Normal fiat currency of 2%, 2.5% means everything doubles in 20 years, roughly, 20 years. 8% growth means it doubles every 8 years so that means it would go from 1 to 2 to 4 to 8 to 16 to 32 so exactly like the JBC said that is unsustainable because population is not growing at that rate yet our Medicaid is we're not doubling our population every 8 years it's not doubling ever It would take like a 2.5% to actually double, which would make sense, 2.5% in order to be sustainable over time. And we're at a fraction of one. And yet we have our programs on a structurally unsustainable growth pattern. And are we dealing with that? No, what we're doing is we're trimming at the edges, and we're saying we're going to take 15% down to 13% and lower our margin for error. We're going to lower our margin for hardship. I mean, it's not much. It's only 2%, but we're also operating at 15% instead of 25% to 50%, which is where we should be if we were looking at a true rainy day fund. So this is not moving in the direction of fiscal responsibility because the General Assembly has no intention of moving in the direction of fiscal responsibility. The General Assembly has the intention of extracting, tax-stracting more money from the taxpaying widgets of Colorado, which is why they will next year after the election, then they will go after the Taxpayer Bill of Rights even harder. It will be next year, I'm pretty sure. pretty sure it'll be next year because they don't want to take it on during an election year because they know that taxpayer bill of rights is very popular let's get back to the reserves please but I think the reserves are something that the taxpayers of Colorado the taxpaying widgets of Colorado should actually have a concern about because that gives them a buffer with the taxpayer bill of rights So we're looking at pulling $72 million out of the Rainy Day Fund. And to speak to the concerns around where the economy is going, because it was discussed by the sponsors, Denver area metro around $356 to $378 per gallon in recent weeks, months. Prices have fluctuated. Denver peak has reached approximately $478 to $492 per gallon in June of 2022. I not sure who was president then in Denver in the Denver area So this aligns with national peak 493 to 503 Colorado statewide followed a similar pattern 470 to 480. So we haven't even reached the Biden era gas prices. Now versus the 2022 peak, $3.56 to $3.78, roughly $1 to $1.36, then the Biden era summer high. So why is there anxiety? There's anxiety because it's manufactured anxiety. Suddenly there's a concern about gas prices when there was no concern about gas prices. There's a concern about the direction of the economy. There's manufactured concern about the direction of the economy, not when the economy was growing at a record rate of inflation of 22.5% over four years. Unprecedented. Unprecedented in history. Devaluing your wages by 25% in four years. Yeah, people have, people are concerned about the direction of the economy, but we've already stated that the economy has turned around and we're expected to be back in the black next year, so I find that very interesting. Stats don't lie. Liars do stats. So we're talking about gutting or tapping into the rainy day fund. It's only 15%, but we're talking about taking 2% out. We're talking about taking, like, what is that, about 12%, 1, 2-15ths. About 12%, I think. Somebody can do that math for me. That we are taking this down. And we are not only overspending, because again, we don't have a spending problem. We have a spending problem. We don't have a revenue problem. We have enough money from the citizens of Colorado to actually fund a functional government. But what we have is a dysfunctional government, and this budget does not fix it. and taking 2% more, taking 12% out of the general, taking 12% out. I'm being Garcia-ed by Taggart. 13.33%. I appreciate that. I think 12% was close, 12.5%. I mean, it sounds like a stat. It sounds like a stat, yes. Well, that stat doesn't lie. Just acknowledging. It would depend on what I did with that stat. Sure. But I appreciate that. So I appreciate the amendment sponsor's effort to get us back into some semblance of fiscal responsibility. And I realize this is not a dig on the JBC. The JBC has done the yeoman's work in trying to work inside the confines that are allowed to it. It would be nice if the JBC had resolution and had transparency on the entirety of the budget. It does not. It would be nice if we put some forensic analysis into this budget. We have not. In fact, it's been resisted at all levels. So, yeah, I support this amendment trying to get some fiscal responsibility. We should be moving this rainy day fund into a higher level And then we could possibly tap into the interest on that And then we could live on that interest and have that comfortable nest egg in case we ever reach that point But instead, this General Assembly continues to throw the stick in the front spokes and then say, well, it's Donald Trump's fault. It's not. It's the General Assembly's fault. You need to get your spending under control. You need to stop asking for the money of citizens of Colorado. you need to stop tapping into the rainy day fund. And we need to have an actual serious talk about our budget.
Further discussion on House Bill 1363? Oh, sorry. Thank you, Rep. Block.
The amendment held to Representative Marshall. Appreciate you having my back. Thank you, Mr. Peter. I just had a couple last little points because of the discussion that happened earlier. The $45 million, again, it's just my understanding, that is what's coming out of the corpus per the Treasury and per our JBC members, and that's the part that is very, very concerning. So as our colleague from far, far away pointed out, if we are going to take money out of someone's savings account, it should be our own and not taking property that belongs to other people. But I will defend the JBC vigorously on this reserve requirement. Historically, Colorado only carried a 5% reserve, and we got hammered in the last recession. So it has been a very fiscally responsible JBC that has been protecting a 15% reserve for the next recession for several years. But again, when the choice is coming down between us rating our own savings account or rating the savings accounts or the property of other people, we really need to go to our own. And if I could have found $45 million in the hour I had to put the amendment together somewhere else in the budget, I would have gone there. But this is the right thing to do. So I ask for a yes. Thank you.
Further discussion on L2? Seeing none, the question before us is the adoption of Amendment L2 to House Bill 1363. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. All those opposed, no. The amendment is lost. We are back to the bill. Representative Rutanel.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move L001 to HB 1363 and ask for it to be properly displayed. That's a proper motion.
One moment. Okay, the amendment is displayed. Representative Routnow. Thank you, Madam Chair.
I rise to offer this amendment because I believe that we can do better for our health care system. And I believe this is a way to do it while keeping this budget balanced. I want to be clear about something first. A billion-dollar shortfall caused in part by the decisions of our federal government does not leave anyone with easy choices. I respect the work of our JBC and what they've done so far, and I know every member is approaching this budget in good faith. I'm not here to condemn this process. I'm here to fight for a different outcome within it. This amendment is my attempt to protect programs that are facing deep reductions, programs that serve people who have no fallback, no savings account, no family wealth to absorb what comes next. I want to name those programs because regardless of How this vote goes today, I want this chamber to know exactly what we should all be fighting for. Rural communities in Colorado are facing a behavioral health crisis that has been building for years. Our farmers and ranchers die by suicide at nearly one and a half times the state average. Most rural counties meet less than 40% of the demand for behavioral health services. The programs at risk in this budget are not redundant. In many of these communities, they are the only thing there is. We must fight to restore them. Kinship families are facing the loss of financial support many of them depend on to make life work. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, neighbors who said yes when a child needed someone. The USDA estimates it costs over $1,000 a month to raise a child. These families were receiving a few hundred dollars. We must keep fighting to keep this support in place. Children who have already experienced trauma deserve continuity in their adoption assistance, in their guardianship arrangements, in the stability that those programs are designed to provide. We must fight to protect that. Medicaid providers are being asked to absorb rate reductions that, stacked on what has already been rescinded this year, push some of them to the edge of what is financially survivable. When a practice closes, it does not close quietly. It closes on the lives of families who have nowhere to go. We must fight to hold those rates. The developmental disabilities waiver wait list is already years long. Nearly 2,800 Coloradans with developmental disabilities are waiting right now for services that allow them to live with dignity outside of institutional care. The reductions in this budget would dramatically cut new enrollments and push the wait lists to 14 years. Community-based care costs a fraction of institutional care. This does not ultimately save us money. It defers costs to a more expensive system. We must fight to hold those slots. We must fight for family caregivers being asked to do more with less, for people with developmental disabilities facing new cost-sharing requirements, for children whose community services face new caps for local public health agencies, for the community behavioral health disaster program, for the law enforcement officers whose mental health support is on the chopping block. This amendment offers a specific workable path. This bill already reduces the general fund reserve requirement from 15% to 13%, freeing over $300 million to balance this budget. My amendments reduced that floor by a bit more than a percentage point, freeing up the resources to cover all of these health care programs that I just mentioned before. And the budget remains balanced. The people who rely on these programs cannot afford these cuts. We must fight to find every available avenue to restore what our budget constraints are compelling us to cut. This fight does not end today. But I hope this amendment helps shine a light on how we can help save some of our most critical programs.
And with that I withdraw L from HB 1363 Thank you Representative Routenel Amendment L will be withdrawn We are now back to the bill Representative Luck.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I come back up to just reiterate my concern related to taking money from the emergency reserves. The more that we take from this fund, obviously the less that we will have in it, and it concerns me as we approach potentially greater economic turmoil. If we're not bringing money in because of a variety of factors, whether that's over-regulation as a result of decisions made in this building or factors in the Strait of Hormuz or anything in between, we will be in a bad way if we continue to pull from a fund while at the same time increasing spending in other places. I am concerned about whether we are fully prepared for the potential fires this year for the drought ramifications on our farmers, on our crops on our food supply and I'm also concerned because last year we came and talked budget twice and basically had to reduce the budget by a billion, one billion dollars in each discussion. Once around this time last year and once in August of last year. And during those conversations, this body raided all of the couch cushions they could find within the state budget. Those are gone. This year we're rating additional layers of couch cushion. What happens next year when the forecasts say we have to cut a billion dollars again? All of the conversations we're having about cutting services and what the impact that will have will be even more pronounced. There will be even greater levels of suffering because there won't be that cushion. I think from my standpoint, we should continue to look into more and more cuts of programs, especially programs that are being requested for creation this year, than to take it out of these reserves when we don't know whether we're going to need to draw down from them because of a true emergency in the very near future.
Representative Bradley. Thank you, Assistant Majority Leader. I agree with the representative from Penrose. You know, I see this in everyday life with friends who live outside their means and then they live on credit cards and the interest on credit cards piles up and before you know it, they're trying to pay back the interest on their credit cards. They have no money for a rainy day fund, and they are just paying interest after interest, and they're not prepared for a disaster or a medical emergency or any of those things, and this is what this will do. This is the fund reserve is a rainy day fund meant to cover unexpected revenue shortfalls or emergencies economic downturns disasters and unexpected costs Previously it was 15 percent of the general fund providing a solid cushion There were proposed reduction to 13 percent decreases that cushion by roughly 320 to 350 million dollars for fiscal year 2026. And I believe that it's going to be less financial safety for Coloradans. and we're already seeing huge wait lists for the IDD community. We have 2,800 people on that wait list. The wait list is an average of seven years, and we already talked about the fiscal impact of that could create these wait lists going up to 14 years. The state is intentionally leaving itself less prepared for emergencies, which could force drastic cuts to Medicaid, K-12, or IDD services if revenue drops. And what about the fire emergencies? I've had two fires in my district already. one on Santa Fe and one in a campground in Roxborough. We are not prepared for the fire disasters that are going to hit this summer. Encourages short-term fixes over long-term stability, reducing the reserve can justify rating dedicated funds, just like we saw with Prop 123 or unclaimed trust funds to balance the budget. And I believe it sets a dangerous precedent. I think just like it sets a dangerous precedent to keep piling up credit card debt and keep paying the interest only and not carving down the actual debt that you're accruing, it prioritizes immediate budget balancing over statutory and voter-mandated protections. I think it magnifies risk of administrative bloat. With administrative costs growing 14% over five years, we're expanding bureaucracy while weakening the financial shield meant to protect Coloradans. It's an upside-down priority. And we're not closing down the wait list gaps. We're not making Colorado more affordable. We're just finding different ways to rob Peter to pay Paul. Coloradans expect a stable budget. Reducing the reserves sends a signal that financial safeguards are negotiable, even in the face of voter-approved measures like Prop 123. In Prop 123, I saw that in a Tabor surplus, you don't take it, but in a Tabor, when we don't have one, you can. But when we have a Tabor surplus, that is because we're not creating new enterprises and new fees on the people of Colorado. So we're taking, we are taking from the people that have governed that money or asked that money to be spent specifically. The General Fund Reserve is designed to cover unexpected revenue shortfalls or emergencies like economic downturns. Dropping it from 15% to 13% means there's less money on hand, making the state more vulnerable if the economy dips or revenues fall short. We're already slashing programs. We have been talking about it for two days now, to K-12 education, Medicaid, the IDD communities. We had arguments about it yesterday, veteran services. We are picking winners and losers, and now we're going to dip into our reserve. And I think that should scare every Coloradan. I am in strong opposition to this. There is another way. it's not this way. Thank you. Representative DeGraff.
Thank you, Madam Chair. So looking at the budget of the last since like 2019 direct comparison to billion up to to billion 32 to 53 percent increase, depending on the exact baseline used for 2019, the higher figure yields more moderate. So let's just use 30 percent, 32 percent. 32% increase in budget. Then we've also gone, blown through about what? Four billion dollars in excess. We've got another four billion dollars in participation trophies, certificates of participation. And the solution, and the solution is to dip into the rainy day fund that is only 15%, not 25% to 50% like a typical family would have a rainy day fund, but only 15%, and we're going to lower it by 13.33%. And I should have had that in my head, but I didn't. I apologize. So I appreciate the correction. I appreciate the phone a friend. But again, this is the running out of other people's money. This is the end result of the politics of plunder, legalized plunder. Eventually, you run out of other people's money. We have $14.7 million programs capped at $95 million program. And we're dipping in. So why are we not with basically our one constitutional obligation to achieve inside of the 120-day maximum? Why are we this far in before we're actually digging into the actual budget and the solutions are to tap into the future, to tap into the reserves? I think this is a good indication that we need to go back to the drawing board, that we need all hands on deck, that we need to stop passing spending bills with miraculously zero dollar fiscal notes that we know are not true. something to put in a line item to come out later on in the future. Programs like we just talked about with affordable housing that are only designed, not a serious effort to actually lower the cost of housing, but only to lower the returns that would otherwise become from the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. so while I appreciate the work of the JBC inside of the framework that they are allowed to operate I don't think we have an actual I don't think we have an actual serious I don't think we have an actual serious consideration for the financial state of the state So I asked for a no vote on tapping into what is basically the protection of the state. And then even though it was, I think, more of a campaign speech to lower it down to another 2%, that because we can see where the precedent of this takes us. Yes. Once you tap it and go from, because if 15% is as good as 25%, then 11 or 13% is as good as 15%, then who's to say that 11% is not as good as 15%? Or 11% is not as good as 13%? So I ask for a no vote on this. I think we need to go back. I think we need to shake the fraud out of the couch cushions rather than going out and trying to pick more money out of the pockets of Coloradans. Or I think the most serious effort to deal with the budget of Colorado was the pick-a-patting amendment from last year. Because I don't think this is it. Representative Sirota.
Thank you, Madam Chair. No one's pockets are being picked. This is a reserve. This is what it's for. We're trying to make a 2% reduction from 15% to 13%. I have yet to hear from folks where you think we should take an additional $300-some million a year. On that last bill, I just heard you didn't want to take the Prop 123 dollars. We'll get back to the long bill at some point, but most of the amendments that I saw running, you didn't want us to make those cuts to Medicaid. Where is it you think we should cut 300-some million dollars? Should we return to a budget stabilization factor? Is that the preferred path? I don't know. I didn't hear it. We did the best we could. this is a reasonable path forward. And I think when we get back to the long bill, I'm going to ask the same questions. When you say don't make these cuts, we put in a 2% across the board provider rate reduction in Medicaid. That's about every 1% of that provider rate reduction is about $48 million, including a 13% reserve on that expenditure. Do you want a 10% provider rate reduction? Tell me where you want the hundreds of millions of dollars to come from. Which Coloradans do you want to devastate by keeping a 15% reserve and making those cuts elsewhere in the budget? Tell me where you want the money to come from. AML Winter.
Thank you, AML Bacon. Colleagues, the quandary that we're in today is something that I talk about and rural legislators talk about all the time. The unfunded mandates that we have come out of this building as a small and rural counties cause my county commissioners to have to do this every year. They have to dip into their reserves to keep up with the unfunded mandates that drop in on their head out of the building. And I just ask you all, as we talk about this today and we see the struggles that we're having trying to come up with a balanced budget, imagine this happens in House District 47 every year because of legislation that is passed out of this building. So please, as we have these discussions and your rural legislators come up and try to explain what their commissioners go through, as more and more unfunded mandates are piled on top of their heads every year The stress that everybody going through the watching the cutting of programs that everybody is seeing happen the hard decisions that are happening to be made picking winners and losers it very uncomfortable And now you all know how my county commissioners feel every single year. So please, as we battle through this, realize that this hard week is what they go through every single year. Thank you.
Representative Richardson. Thank you, Madam Chair. I know there's many parts of yesterday that some of us might want to forget, but there were several of us that came to this microphone and offered reductions in spending. Maybe not $350 million, but we haven't gotten all the way through. But to my recollection, every amendment that was brought
that would have reduced spending was rejected. And I think we need to start taking some of those thoughts that are being brought by other members of this chamber seriously. We might not get to 350, but we could get very close if everything that we were looking at suggesting should be cut is cut. And I would ask that that be recognized, not ignored. Thank you. Representative DeGraff.
Thank you, Madam Minority Leader. this is not a rainy day. This is self-inflicted pain. This is overspending. This is kicking the can down the road. This is self-inflicted. We have offered time and time again, and then you say, which Coloradans do you want to devastate? Which Coloradans do you want to devastate? Well, of course we don't want to devastate any Coloradans. We'd also like to not have them be completely dependent on the government after the government takes all their money, after you take all their money. We fight that the Coloradans will have some reserves, will have some resiliency in their own families. Instead of being forced into a corner with energy prices based on your superstitions, I brought a bill that would have easily had a $1.5 billion impact on the state of Colorado. Kept it in the majority party said no. Transparency in medical prices. A proven track record. information that allows self-paid plans to save $1,500 per employee. The projections are in the billions. I brought years ago, I brought amendments, I brought bills to not send 4 million ballots into the system at a cost of roughly $8 apiece, and if they happened in the best case, if they got returned, another $2. But let's just say they don't get returned and they're used for fraudulent purposes. Doesn't matter. that's $32 million every election cycle that could have been saved that was rejected by the majority party that money I presuming million over 10 election cycles that would be your million So you can come back and say that we have not offered any cuts We have systematically rejected the increase in spending, the spending that puts people in this dependency cycle. And when you created this dependency cycle, it's going to create an issue when you yank the rug out from underneath people. We're not advocating for more spending. We did not advocate for the Prop 123 spending. What we know about that Prop 123, it was just pure duplicity to tap into and eliminate the refunds that would have otherwise come out of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Under the pretense of it being a diversion. So no, we don't put people in these positions. We don't put them in a position where they're dependent, where they have this fealty to government spending because we don't believe in the enslavement of the individual. These government programs that have been created create an enslavement of the individual. And it also creates hardship. And so we're not advocating for more spending. We're advocating for wise spending. We're advocating for wise cuts. We have audits on single departments where hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud are known to have occurred, and yet we have the state defending that fraud and fighting to make sure that it continues. Not the JBC, the state, the governor, the AG, fighting to make sure that that fraud stays in the system. money that could cover quite a lot of this. And that's one department. We don't know what else is out there. What we know is that what has grown is the 15,000 state employees that have offset the 15,000 that have been lost to the actual economy. So we've lost actual economy, 15,000 workers, and we've created more parasite economy with government workers, and then we've said, oh, look, we're growing. That's not the JBC's fault. That's your fault.
Representative DeGraff, I have provided a lot of latitude. I do know there was a question asked, but I would like us now to talk about the bill in regards to the reduction in general fund.
Yes, ma'am. Thank you. I appreciate that. We are talking about spending future money. We have this money. we have this money to protect future Colorado from hardship. The hardship that we have right now is hardship that is created by the General Assembly. And that hardship is only going to be made worse when there's no buffer there to deal with it. We should be growing this reserve, demonstrating for our children what proper fiscal responsibility looks like, but instead the General Assembly is spending more. It's spending future money. And now it's spending emergency money. The tax junkies need to get a hold of their addiction. I just going to pause for a moment Representative Brooks Chair thank you I was just going to pick right up from that No go ahead Yeah Just from the Go ahead Sorry
I have to admit, I just had a bit of an odd flashback. I have a little sweat on my brows still. It was an uncomfortable flashback. The discussion that we had here. And yes, please, my esteemed member from JBC. Hold on one second.
Representative Taggart.
And thanks, Representative Brooks. Later this afternoon, we're going to roll in hospital beds, if that's okay with you. Thank you.
And to the bill, Representative Brooks. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. What people can probably not see is that some pediatric kind of units here were just rolled over here. I think, to be fair, the Joint Budget Committee has been riding the pine to use baseball parlance for quite a long time. And I'm sure that their sitting units are becoming a little sore. So they got some new chairs wheeled in here that look to be much more comfortable. So that's what the reference was about having some beds rolled in here. Just trying to make sure the Joint Budget Committee is comfortable. as comfortable as they can be through a very uncomfortable process. It's a segue back to the bill. And as comfortable as they can be listening to my flashback. The flashback that occurred for me was I can't necessarily pinpoint the time in my life, but I know that I had an uncomfortable conversation around my family budget that was in essence what just happened here. The question was, well, what do you expect us to do? Where do you think this money is going to come from? How do you think we are going to pay this bill if we don't pay for it on a credit card? not going to go into my family financials here but yeah i'm not i'm not a trust fund kid so there have been several conversations difficult conversations i'm not saying anybody is by the way um several difficult conversations that i've i've had to deal with when it comes to family budgeting and family planning and arguments over where do you think this is going to come from? When perhaps I was arguing that we can't go further into debt, we can't go further into the hole, we can't dig ourselves down any further, but yet the argument was, well, where do you think this is going to come from? That right there is to signal an oncoming disaster, rapidly oncoming disaster. And at the time, there was no answer. And at the time now that we're facing, there is no easy answer. And so while I am not in favor and I will vote no against dipping into the reserve, it is not because I expect the Joint Budget Committee to come up here and pull out from page 798 of their books that are on their laps a magical solution. Because I know they've been working very, very difficult. There's not a solution that you can come up with right now that is going to answer where is it going to come from. I understand that. What point that I feel is imperative to drive home is that we need to recognize the situation that we are in right now. Last year we had very difficult budget discussions. and if we think we're going to roll up in here come next year and it'll be puppy dogs and roses and we'll be able to get back to just having our great ideas funded, I mean, I don't know what world you're all living in. And I really don't think that anybody believes that that's going to be our reality next session. If that's not our reality next session, if we're going to be dealing with this again next session, then at what point do we realize that even more has to be done? More will have to be done next budget season because we cannot continue to deplete our savings account to the tune of $700-some million to be able to pay for what we have perhaps not so wisely committed to paying for. We've got to find a way out of the situation that we're in, not by raiding the general fund. This is a signal at a very basic financial literacy level that there is a problem. There is a freight train coming at us. we're dipping into our savings because we have no other option we're dipping into the reserve because we have no other option there is not an answer right now I understand that my point is simply folks collectively we've got to start doing a lot more work to help our joint budget committee figure out how we're going to solve this because hoping that it's going to go away hoping that the joint budget committee is going to find a magical solution for us so we can continue to promote our programs and get our big ideas funded and have all of our great policy ideas just magically just happen? Come on! How many of you know on this?
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1363? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor, please
say aye. Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1363 is passed.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1364. House Bill 1364 by Representatives Sirota and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the calculation of the Consumer Price Index for the 2025 calendar year.
Representative Taggart. There's a committee report. Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1364 and the committee report. To the committee report. The committee report just further clarifies from a technical standpoint the particular consumer price index that we're going to be using from this point forward, and not only in our revenue projections but also on the expense on the appropriation side Is there any further discussion on the committee report Seeing none the question before us is its passage All those in favor please say aye Aye All those opposed please
say no. The committee report is passed to the bill. Representative Taggart. Thank you,
Madam Chair. This bill is all about consistency, and what we call out in this bill is first and foremost for CPI purposes, we're using the 2024 Denver Aurora Lakewood consumer price increase. And it as well averages two, normally it would take the full year, but in this particular case we're doing two six-month periods in averaging. And you may ask why, and that is because of the fact that CPIs, we weren't able to calculate those in the month of October because of the federal shutdown. So differing from normal years, we're taking the two six-month periods and averaging them. Takes it a step further to make sure we use that same percentage, which I believe is 2.4% for the purposes of revenue, for the purpose of the CCAP, the Tabor CCAP, school finance obligations, and other appropriations. And for me, it's just being consistent on an ongoing basis.
Discussion?
And I would ask for an aye vote. Thank you.
Representative Luck. Thank you, Madam Chair.
This is an interesting bill. I will confess I have not read the actual bill language. I'm just focusing on the fiscal note here. My expectation is that this is the first time that we have, as a legislature, messed with the CPI for obvious reasons. But if that's not the case, if there are other examples of when we have messed with the CPI and determining what inflation is equivalent to, I would be very grateful in knowing that. I think it's important, again, for the folks in the gallery and the folks that listen at home to recognize the power of inflation on the state's budget. It's a major contributing factor into the conversation because under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, the amount of money that the state can keep every year is determined by a formula that includes population and inflation. So if inflation is going down or staying the same, then the amount of money that the state can keep will go down or stay the same. If inflation is going up, then correspondingly the state gets to keep more dollars. And so when we look at a CPI, we are actually having a conversation about that piece of the formula, that part of the equation, and what that number should be. And in a budget crisis, for those who want to close that gap, obviously having a higher inflation number can assist with that because of the fact it can. It can. I'm not saying it does. I'm just saying it can. It can assist with that insofar as if the inflation goes up then the amounts could also go up What curious about this as I reading through the fiscal note is that it is fluctuating in terms of its impact on the state budget There are certain instances where having this higher inflation rate will actually cost the state more money. There are other instances where it will cause the state not to have to transfer dollars from one fund to another, which in some ways preserves and protects the general fund in those instances. But what most sticks out to me is the fact that because of this change, Tabor refunds or the refunds back to the people will be decreased by $19 million for this current fiscal year. again when we consider trying to balance our state budget and monitor and mediate all of those different pieces it makes sense in this instance to raise that inflationary rate in this way but I'm concerned because at the end of the day it allows the state again to spend more at the expense of the taxpayer. And we will disagree on this because our philosophies about the role of government are different. My philosophy on the role of government in terms of answering a prior question would be to cut the vast majority of the things the state funds because I don't believe, and many of my constituents don't believe, that that is the role of government to do. Not that it shouldn't be done in society, just that it's not the role of the government to take on those things. And so when I consider this bill, I do find it interesting. I question whether there were other equations that were used to reach a CPI, Like, was there a quarterly, you know, average as opposed to a half-year average? I even question whether it is ultimately necessary, what the significance is, and this is something that your subject matter expertise could speak into as to why there is even a problem with just having 11 months as opposed to 12, and if that's a legal standard, if that is, you know, what that goes. Because I think my constituents, understanding the larger conversation that they see as an assault on the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, would put this bill in that category of an assault. A nice trick in order to raise the inflation, in order to then reduce the TABOR refunds, in order to then allow for the state budget to garner additional funds. funds, right? If I'm looking at this table correctly, we're looking at roughly $9 million that the state is now gaining instead of the people directly to them back in their refunds. And so I just make those comments. Again, I am happy in the event that I'm misunderstanding this for you all to explain because you are in this day in and day out as to those points. but I did want to put on the record those concerns that I have and the general thoughts about adjusting this calculation in order to then possibly garner more dollars and divide that spread.
Representative Sirota.
Thank you Madam Chair We did get a presentation from our nonpartisan staff our chief economist and what we were presented with is that this is a more accurate representation of CPI it's not a typical situation that you would just not have a month where this was calculated. And if we did not do it this way, it is more heavily weighting the beginning of the year than it is the end of the year. And so the analysis that we received is that this is actually just a more accurate way of representing CPI over the course of one year. And so, yes, it does have a consequence that you described. It makes some numbers go up, some numbers go down, but we are applying it consistently across all of the parts of statute that use CPI as a lever to set a formula for a number. It is a matter of consistency.
Okay. Seeing no further discussion, The question before us is the passage of House Bill 1364. All of those in favor, please say aye.
All of those opposed, please say no.
House Bill 1364 is passed.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1366. House Bill 1366 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Maubelaine Kirkmeyer, concerning enhancing state-directed payments for physician services rendered by medical professionals at Denver Health and Hospital Authority in connection therewith making an appropriation.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair.
It is my pleasure to move House Bill 1366. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is an important bill for us to ensure that Denver Health is, we are using state-directed payments through the Chase Enterprise to bring in more federal dollars at no additional cost to the general fund to support the incredibly important work that Denver Health does.
Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just want to say that we all know the value that Denver Health brings to the state and how they really serve as a safety net hospital to the entire state. They serve people from really all counties across the state of Colorado. And this is a really smart way for us to be able to increase our support for Denver Health. So we would ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion? Representative Luck.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am going to ask for three sentences worth of grace from you. Go ahead.
Thank you.
I just want to give a shout-out to Denver Health. I worked on a bill earlier this year, and they have a beautiful model as relates to their maternal health care, and I just want to thank them for the good work that they do and for the way that they honor the professionals across the board in that space. Thank you.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1366? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1366 is passed. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1367. House Bill 1367 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning federal money payable as reimbursement of a public expenditure when the federal money exceeds 50% of the expenditure amount.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1367. To the bill. This bill, again, is a straightforward bill that was brought to us by our leadership in HICFA that just strictly addresses the fact that we did not take advantage of the increase in federal matching funds for Medicaid during the point of coronavirus as a part of the Corona Response Act, and this just makes an adjustment for that particular purpose.
Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1367. All those in favor, please say aye.
All those opposed, please say no.
House Bill 1367 is passed.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1368. House Bill 1368 by Representative Sirota and Taggart, also Senators Maveline Bridges, concerning eliminating a transfer from the Limited Gaming Fund to the Innovative Higher Education Research Fund.
Representative Sirota.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1368. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill eliminates an annual transfer from the Limited Gaming Fund to the Innovative Higher Education Research Fund, which will result instead in $2.1 million being diverted to the general fund. These are matching dollars that institutions of higher education utilized to draw. They utilized for a match for various research grants, and I think it was a good and valuable use of money, but it is simply something we decided we cannot afford. I ask for an aye vote.
Okay. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1368? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor, please say aye. All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1368 is passed. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1369.
House Bill 1369 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Mabalai and Kirkmire, concerning the repeal of a requirement to contract for use of an online platform for higher education institutions for public benefits.
Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1369. To the bill. This bill repeals the need for this online platform for public benefits for higher education students that was created by Senate Bill 22182. Under current law, the DHE is required to contract for this, and the bill eliminates this requirement.
it helps to reduce state general fund expenditures by $45,000 annually. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1369. All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1369 is passed.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1370. House Bill 1370 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the transfer of money from the limited gaming fund to other cash funds.
Representative Sirota.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1370. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill, under current law, the state treasurer transfers $15 million from the limited gaming fund to the Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund at the end of each fiscal year. And starting in the current fiscal year and continuing annually that will become a million transfer and million is transferred to the Museum and Preservation Operations Account of the State Historical Fund due to the decreased allocations that History Colorado has been receiving to do the work of preserving all of our state historical documents and records. So this will be utilized for them to be able to maintain their operations. I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1370? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor, please say aye. All those in favor, please say aye. All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1370 passes.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1371. House Bill 1371 by Representatives Brown and Tugger, also Senators Immobile and Bridges, concerning adding repeal dates for certain higher education programs with limited purpose fee-for-service contracts.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1371.
Can you – I'm sorry. Hold on one second. I'm sorry. Excuse me. Representative Taggart, please proceed.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1371. To the bill. This bill repeals three limited purpose fee-for-service contracts with some of our institutions of higher education. I'll read them to you. One of them is the improved health care access for older Coloradans. One is the career technical education and apprenticeship alignment project. and one is the creation of career pathways for students created by another bill. It results in a savings of not in this year's fiscal year or in next year's fiscal year. We're giving people, giving our institutions two years of forewarning on this program, but in 28-29, it reduces obligations by just over a million dollars.
Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just want to appreciate my good colleague from Grand Junction and his work on this bill as well as on the JBC. I think it's a really important thing to take a moment to recognize that cuts like this in this particular bill are really difficult. These are obviously programs that do a lot of good. As my good colleague mentioned, the program Improved Healthcare Access for Older Coloradans was created by Senate Bill 2331. And this program does a lot of good to make sure that health care is more accessible for some of our older Coloradans. We also have an important career and technical education program that was created by Senate Bill 24-104.
and this bill unfortunately will need to cut $55,000 out of that program. And then finally the program that my good colleague mentioned, the Career Pathways for Students, this program takes we having to cut about from that These are in the current fiscal year but the savings will grow to million per year by 2028 I will just add that we are doing our part to try to maintain the core funding for our institutions of higher education. And part of knowing how to live within your means is knowing where we can cut money, even if it is painful, without affecting the core programs. So this bill is part of our mission at the JBC to protect that core funding, especially for folks who need it the most. Okay. Okay. And so for that, we'll ask for an aye vote. Madam Majority Leader.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to move House Bill 1371 until after House Bill 1372.
House Bill 1371 will be laid over until after House Bill 1372. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1372.
House Bill 1372 by Representatives Brown and Tigard, also Senators Moblin Bridges, concerning requirements for spending appropriations for the Auraria Higher Education Center.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. This is, I move House Bill.
Representative Taggart, sorry to interrupt.
Can you move the bill? Yes, thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1372. To the bill. This bill is a bill that we actually did last year as well for the Auraria Higher Education Center. Last year, we determined that it was better that we, through the general fund, pay for these services with the Auraria Center and then reduce our fee-for-service contracts with the three institutions institutions that do receive the benefits of this administration. Because we had a situation, because I think everybody knows that these are three distinct enterprises, and when they were paying back into the Auraria Education Center, it became a Tabor issue. So instead of having that complication, we pay it directly out of the general fund, and in fact it gets then we reduce the fee for service with those three institutions. It nets out zero, but it reduces the TABOR impact of coming from an enterprise back into the general fund and having it part of the TABOR cap. It is a better way to do it.
Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1372. All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1372 is passed. Madam. Okay. Hold on Mr Schiebel please read the title to House Bill 1371
House Bill 1371 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators of Mobley and Bridges, concerning adding repeal dates for certain higher education programs with limited purpose fee-for-service contracts.
Okay, Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1371.
To the bill.
Thank you. Madam Chair, we have an amendment. I move L002 to House Bill 1371.
Amendment L2 is displayed to the amendment.
Thank you, Madam Chair. This amendment is based on conversations with institutions of higher education. They move up some of the repeal dates at the request of those institutions of higher education, and we ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of L2. All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. L2 is passed to the bill. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1371. All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1371 is passed. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1373.
House Bill 1373 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Mabalain Kirkmeyer, concerning reducing monthly subsidy reimbursement percentages for child welfare services provider contracts in connection therewith reducing an appropriation.
Representative Sirota.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1373.
To the bill.
Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a difficult bill. We had difficult discussions around this bill. 1373.
There's no committee report for it. Sorry.
I don't see a committee report for 1373.
Okay, great.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. So this bill adjusts the monthly subsidy payment rates for the Adoption Assistance Program and the Relative Guardian Assistance Program for contracts that take effect starting July 1, 2026 or later. It also removes case services such as child care, tutoring and therapies that are not Medicaid eligible as eligible program expenditures. We didn't come to this bill lightly. this came after significant conversations about the growth in expenditures that are occurring in this program. General fund spending has increased 112% since fiscal year 23 in this particular program. And as we are working to make adjustments to our budget in every department, this is one of those places where we are seeing challenging growth that we would anticipate continuing each year going forward. These reductions were made in deep conversation with our County Human Service administrators and advocates and our nonpartisan staff to come up with what we felt was the best worst option. And we don't ask for a yes vote lightly, but do request one regardless, because it is one of many painful steps we need to take to balance this budget.
Is there any further discussion on 1373? Okay.
Representative Luck. Sorry. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you. the bill sponsors. The adoption assistance program and the relative guardianship assistance program, I'm not wholly sure what. I see here it says that there are monthly subsidy payments for the adoption assistance program of 50% of foster care rates for youth under nine, 55% of foster care rates for youth nine years old or older but under 14 years old, and 60% of foster care rates for youth 14 years old or older, and then there is a similar breakdown for the Relative Guardianship Assistance Program. I guess my question is, when discussing this particular endeavor, was there any concern that if these were reduced, these payments were reduced, that these kids would end up back in the foster care system or end up in a situation where the state is now 100% responsible for them and also obviously the trauma of being moved out of those spaces. And so, you know, I'm just wondering if that was part of the conversation and if you all felt comfortable that that is likely not to happen in the event of reducing these particular rates.
Representative Brown.
Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you to my good colleague from Penrose. Obviously, that is not the hope of the JBC. We worked very closely with counties to try to figure out what was a more sustainable rate that would hopefully continue to allow for access to these two particular programs, but also control the cost both for the state as well as the counties. As you know, the counties pay a portion of the share of the care for these kids, so there was mutual interest in making sure that we could not only maintain access for parents but also bring the costs of the program to a more sustainable level. It's a really hard situation because this is really important support that we provide to families, but this is the nature of the budget that we have to pass today.
Is there any further discussion?
Representative Luck. I appreciate that. And if there is someone with greater knowledge as to whether there will be more kids put back into the foster system as a result of any of these dollars diminishing I would be open to hearing that particular information I do have a dear friend who adopted a young man after he had already been adopted and then turned back into the foster care system as, you know, just horrendous story. And I know firsthand some of the dynamics that take place there. And so to the degree that anybody knows whether there is a concern of these kids ending up back in the system. I would, again, be open to hearing any of that either on or off the mic.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I share some anxiety about the removal of case services because I know that this has been a real issue, particularly for some of the older children and their ability to remain adopted and not end up returned to the foster care system. And, you know, there is the ability to utilize programming within the excess Title IV-E funds for some programming and contracts with other organizations that do do some of this case service work, that there are supposed to be some services that are Medicaid eligible that the counties have said folks are not utilizing first. And so, yes, I have anxiety. I think it's something that we will have to continue to monitor and watch. but this is our best effort at trying to find a path forward.
Seeing no further discussion, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1373. All those in favor, please say aye. All those opposed, please say no. House Bill 1373 is passed. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1374.
House Bill 1374 by Representatives Sirota and Tigard, also Senators and Mabalain Bridges concerning kinship care funding provisions.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1374.
To the bill.
The bill eliminates state funding and reimbursements for non-certified kinship care homes. And as I say that, we also encourage those homes that are not certified at present to get certified. and before you think it's a significant hurdle, this really focuses on two things to protect these children. One, to have the individuals which are kin to go through a background check and two, to have home safety checks. Both of these are to the benefit of the children. When you look at the savings on this, initially there is a savings of $9.4 million having to do from the general fund for non-certified kinship care. but in all of our discussions we brought that down to 5 million dollars because we want to do everything we can in our counties that administer this program to encourage all of these kinship homes that are presently not certified to become certified And thus, we are not taking that full $9.4 million, rather $5.5 million. And I ask for an aye vote.
Representative Sirota.
Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just want to add this actually does represent one of those bills that one present and one former member of the JBC did run and now recognize our challenge in funding that bill. When that bill was passed a couple of years ago, it was passed utilizing TANF reserve dollars to fund the first two years of it. And now, as my colleague shared, we would be projected to have to absorb that $9.4 million of general fund in the coming fiscal year. If we don't address this bill, another funding source, I don't know, when they passed it, they said, we hope to find another funding source for this program. another funding source was not found. And so, um, thus the, the need for the bill. And so I just, um, I wanted to share that. I also, um, appreciate we have a colleague, uh, from Denver who has worked closely. If you were in appropriations and you heard some testimony from a couple of our independent agencies talking about some additional clarifications that might be helpful to ease the path forward for this bill for counties and for families and for those who are advocating for children and we very much appreciate the collaborative work that has gone in to that and so would consider that a friendly amendment when it comes next.
Representative Gilchrist.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move Amendment L-001 to House Bill 1374 and ask that it be properly displayed.
The amendment is displayed.
Representative Gilchrist. Okay, thank you. So Amendment L001 allows for notice when the uncertified kin are interacting with a caseworker that they're told, because this is happening relatively soon, that they will no longer be receiving these reimbursement rates so that they can plan. So it's a simple amendment. As the sponsors mentioned, we worked with counties, the Colorado Department of Human Services, the Office of Child's Representative, the Office of Respondent Parent Council, and advocates to make sure we brought these two amendments today that would make this bill easier on the non-certified kin folks. So I will talk more about that after we move this amendment, but ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on L1? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. L1 passes.
Representative Gilchrist Thank you Madam Chair I move L002 to House Bill 1374 and ask that it be properly displayed
L2 is displayed to the amendment.
Thank you, Madam Chair. So this second amendment allows for continued data collection. Counties already collect data on non-certified kin, but we just want to make sure as we take away these reimbursement rates that we're continuing to collect data because hopefully we will be in a different place at some point and we can find ways to better support these families. And so we want to make sure that that data is collected and that we understand where kids are and what families need support and how much support. So I would ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on L2? Seeing none, the question before is its passage. All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, please say no. L2 is passed.
Representative Gilchrist. Thank you, Madam Chair. Oh, I also just wanted to mention, too, on these amendments, in addition to being a collaborative effort with the agencies and advocates involved in this, neither of these drive any fiscal note. So maintain the budget that the state will get from removing these reimbursement rates. I just want to say that this will be by far the hardest vote, one of the hardest votes I take on the budget this year. I, as many of you know, am a foster and adoptive parent and know many kinship families in the state, and they work so hard. These are grandmas and aunts and uncles who take on kids at a moment's notice and kids that have really significant needs and need our support in the state. And this is a really hard one. But I do think, given our budget situation and given the ability for these families to get support if they get certified, that this is a necessary cut. I do think, I will say, I hope that more kinship families do get certified because it comes with support. It comes with financial support and it also comes with training. And it comes with a caseworker that can help you navigate your life now with your five grandchildren and the different systems that go into that in kinship care. but in drafting these amendments and in the hard conversations with the JBC on both this bill and the last bill I have had many stories come to me about kinship families and adoptive families and foster families that are very sad about this but understand that given our budget situation this is necessary but I just want to say to those families that I am committed to making sure that we support those families and we are in an impossible situation in our budget and we will fix it and we will support you and we will get there and I hope that these amendments make this easier and with that I do ask for an aye vote on this bill.
Representative Bradley. Thank you Madam Chair and thank you to the previous representative for bringing those amendments forward and speaking about them. I know that this is going to be a hard vote for you. I, too, am a little frustrated. I think that a lot of these people take on kinship, non-kinship care at a moment's notice. And I worry about the background checks. I worry about the home safety checks. I worry that they're going to be in a timely fashion and that the non-kidship care won't lose custody of these kids because they have to jump through additional hoops put on by the state. And again, I appreciate the amendments that were brought forward because this is going to be a hard vote. And I think anyone that's on health and human services is going to have a hard vote. I was talking to the representative from Grand Junction. I just want to ask on the record. And under state expenditures, it says payments for non-certified kinship care are expected to total at least $9.4 million general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027, assuming no change in caseload. However, some families are expected to pursue certification, which is what you guys want, and receive larger payments as a result of elimination of non-certified payments. So I guess my question is, if you have 1,000 non-kinship families that then go towards certification and go to become kinship, they will receive larger payments.
So if you have 1,000 that then become certified, what are we going to do as far as paying for those larger payments?
Representative Taggart. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. And the answer to that question is because we've already had these discussions with counties and we pay 90% of these costs. If for any reason it exceeds what we have put here, the department will come back to us with a supplemental to make sure our counties are whole. We have to make certain of that.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1374? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. 1374 passes. Mr. Shee will please read the title to House Bill 1375.
House Bill 1375 by Representatives Sorota and Tigard, also Senators Mabalain Kirkmeyer, concerning repealing the County Administration of Assistance Programs funding model and a connection there with reducing an appropriation.
Representative Sorota.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1375.
To the bill.
Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill is repealing the requirement that the Department of Human Services annually contract for a county administration of public and medical assistance programs funding model, saving the general fund $600,000 per year. essentially this study was this model was set up to help inform the JVC's decision making regarding funding for county administration but the counties have determined that they don't think it is a useful model given that it's sort of this point in time analysis that isn't actually necessarily reflecting their true workload and we have never been able to use it because we can't implement what it would cost. And so it's working for no one. We are also working through right now some legislation to come, making some significant changes to how we are managing between the state and the counties the administration of our safety net programs. programs. And so for that reason, we are repealing the requirement to conduct this study with the funding model each year going forward. I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1375 Seeing none the question before us is its passage All those in favor say aye Aye All those opposed no The ayes have it 1375 passes Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1376.
House Bill 1376 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning updating permissible uses of money in the excess federal title for e-reimbursements cash fund.
Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1376.
To the bill.
This bill updates the allowable uses of the excess Title IV-E reimbursement cash fund to align with federal law. The Title IV-E funds are a primary source of federal funds for child welfare. The Adoption Assistance Program expands Title IV-E eligibility, and the calculated savings from this expansion are deposited into the cash fund. Revenues can only support adoption or other permanency services under federal law, and the funds must supplement but not supplant the adoption assistance program and cannot be used for Title IV-E. So in passing this bill, the cash fund had to be used to support the administration of county human services, but this is no longer an accurate description of the source of the revenue or the allowable use of revenues under federal law. So we ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1376? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. 1376 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1377.
House Bill 1377 by Representatives Sirota and Tigard, also Senators Immobile and Kirkmeyer, concerning the clarification regarding the treatment of funds that are transferred from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing through the Colorado Department of Human Services that passed through a regional accountability entity.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1377.
To the bill.
Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a very narrow-scoped bill. As all of us in this room know, we get a match from the federal government when it comes to our Medicaid expenses, the vast majority of our Medicaid expenses. In this particular case, we have an unusual situation where our federal funds flow from us as a state entity into what the bill refers to as managed care entities, which many of us refer to as RAIS, which are regional accountable entities. And then those funds, state funds and federal funds, flow back into human services for the purposes of our mental health hospitals and several mental health transitional living homes. As soon as they flow back, those federal funds now are no longer exempt from TABOR. They are part of the TABOR calculation. And we're just asking you on these very specific funds, very narrow, because they started as federal funds exempt, that they remain exempt through this. It be almost easier to show there a very simple diagram that illustrates this very well But you have to trust me in this particular case that these started as federal funds and were exempt and they flow through the raise and then come back and we just asking you to continue to leave them exempt. Only these funds, no other funds. And I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1377? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. Ayes have it. 1377 passes. Mr. Sheewell, please read the title
to House Bill 1378. House Bill 1378 by Representative Sirota and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the repeal of certain behavioral health resources administered by the Behavioral Health Administration and in connection therewith, reducing an appropriation.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill
1378. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill
repeal certain services and programs that are currently offered by the Behavioral Health
Administration, ultimately including a reduction in appropriations of $5.2 million of general fund to the BHA. It repeals the safety net provider application support services. It repeals the behavioral health voucher program. It repeals the capacity building grant program and the high risk Families Cash Fund, as well as the recovery support services grant program required in Senate Bill 21-173. There are a number of these things that were funded either back in 2019 and continued in 2021, or begun altogether in 2021 when we had a much different fiscal environment and we invested heavily with the COVID recovery dollars that we received in behavioral health supports. And we are now at a point where not all of these programs can be continued. We do not have the revenue sources to continue these programs that had been established with one-time funding.
Representative Johnson.
Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you so much, JBC sponsors, for all of your work on this. Last year, we overwhelmingly decided to keep the funding for the Rural Behavioral Health Services vouchers, which is why I am going to move I move L002 to House Bill 1378 and ask that it be properly displayed That is a proper motion, give us one moment
And the amendment is before us, please proceed Thank you Madam Chair
What this amendment does is move it from a shall to a may so we are not forcing the JBC to fund It will not mess with their budget this year. It will freeze the program because we don't have the funds this year. But I will continue to work with this with our agricultural groups, our rural communities, because this voucher program is crucial to the mental health of our areas that there is a huge stigma in mental health. And it is, you know, in small areas, they don't show up in their pickups to the front of a clinic because everyone knows what they drive. These hotlines, when they're in crisis, are what keep them here with us so we can further give them resources because the prices that we're losing in agricultural production are hard. We're seeing more fires. We're seeing people losing property. We see a lot of strain in rural areas. We need this program and so I asking colleagues to freeze the program It does not affect the budget It keeps the work that the JBC is doing And I will continue to look for ways to keep this program alive next year to make sure we have the funds But I'm asking that we freeze it this year so we can continue working on it for our rural and ag communities, and I urge a yes vote.
Amo Winter.
Thank you, Madam Chair, and I appreciate my colleague for bringing this amendment. I think it's ultra important to make sure that this program at least stays on the books, that we're able to do something with it. She was 100% correct when we look at the stressors that we're facing in rural Colorado right now. You all did. You voted with us last year. It was a pretty amazing night for the both of us to be able to get that done, and we just want basically a placeholder that this program, if the money does show up, which we think we have a source next year to try to pull from, that we're able to put these funds back in this program. this is a great opportunity to bridge the rural urban divide so i urge a yes vote
is there any further discussion on amendment l002 the question seeing none the question before us is the passage of amendment l002 to house bill 1378 all those in favor say aye all those opposed no the ayes have it l2 passes to the bill is there any further discussion on house bill 1378 seeing none the question before us is its passage all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1378 passes. Mr.
Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1379. House Bill 1379 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning a correction to a citation for bond forfeiture money deposited in the Judicial Stabilization Cash Fund.
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1379. To the bill. Madam Chair, this is a very simple bill that just corrects its statutory reference, and I ask for an aye vote.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members, this is the bill you've been waiting for all day. It's the most consequential bill we will pass all day. It fixes an important citation in statute, and I ask for an aye vote. Is there
any further discussion on House Bill 1379? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1379 passes. Mr. Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1380.
House Bill 1380 by Representatives Brown and Tigard, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the repeal of the Office of the Judicial Discipline Ombudsman.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1380. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill repeals the office of the Judicial Discipline Ombudsman, which unfortunately has not yet been set up. House Bill 23-1205 created a five-person selection board made up of two Republican lawmakers, two Democrats, and a judge. And while the board was supposed to begin meeting sometime in January of 2024, unfortunately there haven't been any meetings that have been held. and the ombudsman position remains unfilled. We haven't funded this in the past fiscal year, and the long bill does not include this funding. So given the status of this office, we are requesting to repeal it, and we ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion?
AML Bacon. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move L1 and ask that it be displayed.
That is a proper motion. Give us one moment. Okay. And the amendment is before us. Please proceed.
Thank you. And members, I'd like to first thank JBC and also apologize to them for the condition of this program. However, the purpose of this program was well fought for on behalf of particular stakeholders, those who feel like they needed a place outside of judicial to be able to bring concerns. This program came as a result, if many of us followed a couple of years ago, some serious questions brought forward by whistleblowers in the Judicial Department regarding the management of money as well as the management of personnel. And so while after the passage of this bill, it is true that we have not been able to stand up the office, what this amendment does is actually add a repeal to the program rather than today, but to July 1st, 2027. In the interim, we are aware of what it is that we have to do. We are also aware of the budget concerns, and so we're asking for the opportunity to do what the bill has fully required in partnership, again, with the same stakeholders who brought it forward in the beginning. In the event that we are unable to either fund it or stand up the program, the program will repeal instead of today, but in July of 2027. With that, I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion?
Representative Luck. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for this amendment and the conversation.
Can anyone give further insight into why this has not actually taken place? AML Bacon. Thank you. The issue that we had in our experience is, first, there were shifts in the people who were on the commission. Then there was a particular person who was the lead legislator on this. And second, apparently we wrote the bill to not actually instruct any nonpartisan staff to help us set this up. So the work does come down to the actual legislators. The conversation we had in the interim, though, was to revisit a few things. Judicial's budget, to revisit the job description in and of itself to see what we can do, and to look at, revisit some of the changes that were made to judicial discipline. A big part of the bill also requires for us to look at data, anonymous reporting, and if judicial has set up systems to do that and share information with the Judicial Discipline Commission. And now that that has been stood up, we feel like we're in a better place. But ultimately, it came down to not having a sense of how to initiate the process.
Is there any further discussion on the amendment? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of L-001 to House Bill 1380. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. L-001 passes. To the bill, is there any further discussion on House Bill 1380? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor, I'm sorry, House Bill 1380 as amended. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1380 as amended passes. Mr. Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1381.
House Bill 1381 by Representatives Brown and Sroda, also Senators Amabalain-Bridges, concerning eliminating the requirement that the Commission on Judicial Discipline Special Cash Fund begin each state fiscal year with a balance of at least $400,000.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1381. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill eliminates the requirement that the Judicial Discipline Special Cash Fund begin each state fiscal year with a balance of at least It also transfers from the Special Cash Fund to the General Fund on June 30th of 2026 The Special Cash Fund is continuously appropriated, and we're leaving about $62,000 in the fund, which can be accessed to begin an investigation. If more funding is required, we expect the Office of Judicial Discipline to request funding via emergency supplemental, and we ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1381? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1381 passes. Mr. Sheewell, please read the title to House Bill 1382.
House Bill 1382 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Mabalain-Bridges, concerning the support of Coloradans with disabilities and a connection therewith, creating the Colorado Disability Funding Authority and making and reducing appropriations.
Representative Brown.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1382. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This actually is a great bill that I think people can be excited to vote for in the midst of all this sadness. We are in this bill creating a special purpose authority to assume the duties that are currently performed by the Colorado Disability Funding Committee. While the work is wrapped up by the committee and modifies the revenue and the uses of the Disability Support Fund. The Disability Support Fund is currently receiving funds from the sale of the historic license plates. And this money is sitting in this fund. It is to be utilized to grant out to community organizations that are providing assistance for people with disabilities, especially to be able to work through benefit applications for Social Security and for Medicaid. These applications can be really difficult, really onerous, and it can take years actually to complete them. And there is a huge wait list for these services. What is also happening is that we continue, we over the years now, since the new license plates have been selling so well, we have been sweeping some of these funds each year into the general fund. and the movement of this program into a special purpose authority will ensure that the revenue coming in will remain dedicated to serving people with disabilities, and they will be able to access the supports that these organizations are able to provide them to better access the benefits that they are eligible for at the federal level. And in the meantime, we are also making a last sweep of some of the funds to the general fund for balancing purposes. But once the special purpose authority is created, those funds will remain protected within that committee. as we set up this special purpose authority, we have put important guardrails and transparency measures in there for auditing and oversight to ensure proper usage of the funds. And I ask for an aye vote.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. And just real briefly I just want to say that I really appreciate being able to work with my colleagues on the JBC to get this bill done This is an incredibly important program that we are setting up to give the disability community even more control over the funds that have always been intended to support the services that folks with intellectual and developmental disabilities need. The license plates and the sale of those have been an incredibly successful program, and this bill will allow us to make sure that that investment remains within the disability community. So I'd ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1382? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1382 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of the House Bill 1383.
House Bill 1383 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Amabile and Bridges, concerning repealing the Employment Support and Job Retention Services Program and a connection there with reducing an appropriation.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1383. To the bill. This bill repeals the Employment Support and Job Retention Services Program and its supporting cash fund on July 1st. The program was scheduled to repeal on September 1st, so we are ending the program early. The program funds wraparound employment services to unemployed or underemployed individuals who can't access other employment resources. We're statutorily required to annually appropriate $250,000 in general fund, and the program was created in a bill in 2019. but like many of these programs we unfortunately can no longer afford this even though it is a very important and meritorious program. So we ask
for an aye vote on this. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1383? Seeing now the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1383 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1384.
House Bill 1384 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the classification of School to Work Alliance Program cost payments to the Department of Labor and Employment from the Department of Education.
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1384. To the bill. This bill specifies that revenue that is transferred directly from the state public school fund, and this is different from the state education fund, which takes a while to realize. And the source of the state public school fund comes from two primary sources. One, our marijuana tax cash fund, and two, from revenues for leasing school lands for mineral and oil and gas exploration. These funds then that become the state public school fund are with this bill or take place today, then are transferred to the Department of Labor and Employment for the School to Work Alliance Program. And the School to Work Alliance Program, which I'm sure you all are familiar with, is a partnership between our school districts and the Colorado Division of Vocational Rehabilitation within CDLE. The only thing this bill asks is that these funds that start with the state public school fund onto the Department of Labor be TABOR And I ask for an aye vote Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1384 Seeing none the question before us is its passage All those in favor say aye Aye All those opposed, no.
The ayes have it. House Bill 1384 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1385.
House Bill 1385 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Maubelain-Bridges, concerning directing 100% of the funding for the Public Defender and Prosecutor Behavioral Health Support Program for State Fiscal Year 2026-27 to the Office of the State Public Defender.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1385. To the bill. This bill changes the allocation of funds between the Office of State Public Defenders and the Colorado District Attorneys Council for 2627. The bill specifies that the program previously previously has received about $500,000 of general fund annually since 2022-2023. And statute specifies that the funds are split 50-50 between the two entities. The State Public Defender's Office has been utilizing their $250,000, but the District Attorney's Council has not, and there are some extra funds there. So this bill will make sure that we are only allocating money for the state public defenders and we are spending down the balance that is in the fund for the District Attorneys Council, and we ask for an aye vote.
Seeing no further discussion, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1385. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1385 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of the House Bill 1386.
House Bill 1386. House Bill 1386 by Representatives Brown and Tigard, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning changing the funding mechanism for the Colorado National Guard tuition waiver program.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1386. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. Under current law, the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs administers a tuition waiver program. This bill comes out of some confusion from a bill that was passed last year about who is funding these tuition waivers. And this bill specifies that essentially the costs will be split half between a reimbursement from DMVA to the institutions of higher education, and 50% will be covered by the institutions of higher education themselves. And we ask for an aye vote.
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to go on the record of thanking our institutions of higher education. By helping us from a state standpoint, by funding 50% of this, this adds another $800,000 to this program. Because last year it was at $1.8 million, and this year it takes it over $2.5 million. So many more of our National Guard members will get the opportunity to have tuition-free enrollment in our institutions of higher education. So I really want to say thank you to all of our institutions of higher education because in a year where we're basically flat in terms of what their funding is to be, they are working with these National Guard members, and I sincerely appreciate that.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1386? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1386 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1387.
House Bill 1387 by Representatives Brown and Tigard, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the expenditure of money from the severance tax trust fund and in connection therewith, allowing the state treasurer to transfer money from the severance tax perpetual base fund to the species conservation trust fund, establishing an annual transfer from the severance tax operation fund to the general fund.
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1387 as amended.
Can you move the bill and the committee report? And the committee report. Not as amended. If you can restate the motion.
Moving the bill and the committee report. Oh, no, no. I move House Bill 1387, and I move the committee report for House Bill 1387.
Excellent. To the Appropriations Committee Report.
The committee report just had very minor technical changes to the bill, nothing substantial at all.
Is there any further discussion on the Appropriations Committee Report? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The aye has it. The committee report passes. To the bill, Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. There's going to be a quiz on transfers right after I take you through this. This has to do with severance taxes, and it has to do with the severance taxes strictly in our Department of Natural Resources, which for those of you that know this or don't know this, 50% of the severance tax revenue goes to DOLA, 50% goes to the Department of Natural Resources. This only applies to the Department of Natural Resources. So the first transfer takes place from, oh, and within, to make it even more confusing, there are two funds within DNR. One is a perpetual fund and one is the operations fund. So the first transfer is for species conservation trust fund from the perpetual fund for $3 million. The second group are for these very specific programs from the operational fund. Energy and Carbon Management Commission, Colorado Geological Survey, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Species Conservation Trust Fund, the Aquatic Nuisance Species Fund, Conservation District Grant Fund, and Wildfire Mitigation Capacity Development Fund. When all of those are funded by the Operation Fund, having to do with severance, $14.2 million comes over into the general fund. And I ask for an aye vote. And there is a quiz right after this for you folks to tell me where all these are funded from.
I would not pass that test Is there any further discussion AML Winter Thank you Madam Chair I just want to get on the record saying thank the Lord for severance taxes in this state Once again, you all have been able to balance the budget off of the production of oil and gas. Thank you.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1387? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. As amended. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1387 as amended passes. Mr. Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1388.
House Bill 1388 by Representative Sroda and Taggart, also Senators Mobley and Bridges, concerning the repeal of the bond assistance program administered by the Department of Personnel and Connection Therewith, transferring the balance of the bond assistance program cash fund to the general fund.
Representative Sroda. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1388. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill transfers the unexpended and unencumbered balance of the bond assistance program cash fund in the Department of Personnel and Administration at the end of this fiscal year, and then repeals the bond assistance program at the end of 2027 calendar year. This program was established in a Senate bill from 2022, and it was supposed to help reduce disparities between the availability of historically underused businesses and the use of such businesses in state procurement. However, it has not been well utilized and so we are repealing it and taking the money with it. I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1388?
Madam Chair, just to put some numbers around this. Since the inception of this, there were $2 million put forward by the general fund to this cash fund. And at this date, there's $1.75 million left. So that's an indication of a program that is not being utilized.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1388? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1388 passes. Mr. Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1389.
House Bill 1389 by Representatives Brown and Sorota, also Senators Moblin and Kirkmeyer, concerning eliminating the annual appropriation requirement for the Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education Grant Program.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1389.
And the committee report? And the committee report.
To the Appropriations Committee Report. In the Appropriations Committee Report, we made some minor changes to the appropriations, and we asked for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on the Appropriations Committee Report? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of the Appropriations Community Report to House Bill 1389. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The Appropriations Community Report passes.
To the bill, Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill eliminates the requirement that the General Assembly annually appropriate money to the Department of Public Health and Environment for the Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education Program. Some of you may remember the passage of the original bill that contained this particular grant program. Unfortunately, based on information that the department has presented with us and the way that this grant program was set up, it is not functioning as well as it could. And while I certainly support comprehensive sex ed this program not only can we not afford it but it is not functioning at the highest level that it could So the JBC has recommended that we repeal this grant program Sorry, what? Sorry, we're eliminating the appropriation. So we're eliminating the appropriation. And we ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1389?
Representative Richardson. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you for bringing this bill. I'd like to take it one step further and move L003 to 1389 and ask that be properly displayed.
That is a proper motion. Give us one moment. And that amendment is before us. Please proceed.
Thank you very much. I got briefly excited when I heard that JBC wanted to repeal this, and then there was some other discussion, but I'd like to follow up on that. So there's been a lot of great work done over the last couple of years in getting rid of continuous appropriations and putting some authority back into this body to determine year by year whether something should be appropriated or not. and that kind of zombie appropriation where they exist kind of just keeps some money flowing and takes away flexibility to address priorities as they change appropriation-wise. So this amendment kind of extends that same thought process to programs that remain on the books, even when we can't afford to fund them. Essentially, this amendment states that if this program receives no appropriations for two consecutive years, then the program itself is repealed. If it's important, we should fund it. If it's not funded, it probably isn't important. If it's unimportant, we should repeal it and then clean up the statute and end these kind of zombie magnets. And in this case, the original authorization was to appropriate a million dollars a year for creation and, what was the term? It was to create and implement. This was from 2019. If things haven't been created and implemented by now, they probably aren't ever going to be. But to have that line on the books where we have to appropriate or make that decision not to every year of a million dollars is frankly just extra work for everybody. So if it's not working the way it should and it can't be cleaned up and it doesn't deserve appropriations in the next two years, this amendment would repeal that grant program. And I would appreciate a yes vote.
Representative Luck. Thank you, Madam Chair. I will gladly give my yes vote to this amendment. In fact, I would love to see this amendment added
to all sorts of appropriation-connected bills. I think that is an excellent idea, especially in light of some of the conversations we've had today about different programs that have not been set up or not been used since they've been set up. I do think this is a good consideration for not spending these dollars if we are not prioritizing this space to remove that program entirely clean up our books by virtue of this triggering mechanism without having to come back and revisit in this way I think that's just a great idea, generally speaking, and so I say yes. Representative Sroda. Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to ask my colleague from Albert, while we're paging through the statute book, does your amendment repeal just the grant program, or does it repeal all of the requirements beyond the grant program? Representative Richardson. This simply repeals the grant program itself, if not the portion within CDPHE, not the portion under the school statute. Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair, and I appreciate my good colleague for that clarification. I was running back there to get my statute book and thumbed through it anyway. We still ask for a no vote. The JBC has decided that we'd like to keep this in statute, even if we are not funding it just now, and hopefully at some point we can get back to a place where we are funding these kinds of programs. Representative Richardson. I appreciate the JBC's desire and decision, but I would take it as a recommendation to this body, and my recommendation would be that we actually pass this amendment. There is no reason to have the JBC staff have to go through all of statute, start with a budget that places a million dollars in this because it requires a million dollars each year and then have to go through the drill of removing a million dollars each year. Let's just let it go. If it becomes important in the future, we can pass a bill. We do plenty of that. Thank you. Is there any further discussion on the amendment? Seeing none, the question before us is Amendment L-003. All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, no.
No.
The no's have it. L-003 is lost. to the bill. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1389? Representative Luck. Thank you, Madam Chair. So before I came to the House, there was quite a ruckus that was created around the underlying bill, the 2019 bill 191032 that modified the Comprehensive Human sexuality education program generally. I think you might recall there was even a recall of our governor and in part this was one of the reasons for that recall petition was this particular human sexuality program and I remember going to the state fair which just a plug for the state fair always awesome always should go and there were folks there getting signatures for that recall petition and they had their case made out on the table of just different issues that they had and and one of the supporting documents that they were using to to encourage folks to sign that petition to recall our governor was information related to books that were being used for this books that were in my mind, X-rated. I wouldn't share the details about what was being taught to elementary school students through these books. And so So I'm actually very glad that this particular grant program is being defunded because if indeed those are the kinds of materials that are being purchased by our school districts, then I do not want our students exposed to that information. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1389? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1389, as amended, passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1390.
House Bill 1390 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Moblin-Kirkmaier, concerning the evaluation agent for the Health Disparities and Community Grant Program.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1390. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill requires that the Department of Public Health and Environment evaluate the health disparities and community grant program rather than hiring an external evaluator. This will help save us $500,000 of general fund. And this is important additionally because in the long bill we are reducing appropriations to this grant program. And so this will ensure that we are preserving the remaining funds for this grant program for actual grants to go out and not on administrative work. I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1390? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1390 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1391.
House Bill 1391 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Maubel and Kirkmeyer, concerning clean drinking water in places where children are present and in connection therewith, extending the School and Child Care Clean Drinking Water Fund through the 2028-29 state fiscal year, adding high schools to the scope of potential recipients of grants from the School and Child Care Clean Drinking Water Fund, prohibiting the Department of Public Health and Environment from issuing a license to a child care center unless the child care center is in compliance with laws concerning the testing of drinking water and making an appropriation.
Representative Sorota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1391. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is another feel-good bill, I think, that you can vote on. This is the Safe Drinking Water and Child Care Centers and Schools Bill that I know I have an amendment to, if I could find it. I'll get there in a moment. This bill essentially extends the provisions from a bill passed in 2022 to ensure that our kids' schools and child care centers are free of lead by creating this test and fix program. The cash fund is going to just provide the, we will be providing the authority for funds in this cash fund to roll forward and continue to serve our high schools who weren't originally included in the program because we did not have enough funds. So this will extend it to our high schools as well as child care centers that have come online since the program was initiated. It also though within the long bill this program represents a reduction of some FTE and million of general fund and also within the transfer bill we are transferring I believe million out of this cash fund to the general fund and also within the transfer bill we are transferring I believe five million dollars out of this cash fund to the general fund So we are creating savings in our budget and we are working to make sure that we are keeping our kids schools free of lead and I will let my sponsor share his thoughts on this bill while I find my amendment. Representative Brown. Thank you Madam Madam Chair, I think we all agree that our children's schools and child care centers should be safe with their drinking water, that we should not be subjecting kids to lead. I have certainly run legislation in this building to try to eliminate or limit lead exposure. And this is one of the core functions of public health. And so that's why this bill is particularly critically important. because not only are we meeting the budget challenges of our state, but we are continuing to test child care centers and schools, and so we will ask for an aye vote. Representative Sroda. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move L002 and ask that it be displayed. That is a proper motion.
And the amendment is before us. Please proceed.
Thank you, Madam Chair. In working with providers, the Department of Public Health and Environment and the Department of Early Childhood, We are slightly amending the language around how child care centers will comply with this bill and giving CDEC rulemaking authority to ensure that this is workable for providers. I ask for an aye vote.
Is there any further discussion on the amendment? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of Amendment L-002 to House Bill 1391.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. L2 passes. To the bill, is there any further discussion? Representative Luck. Thank you, Madam Chair. So I note that the original bill transferred $21 million and that there's roll-forward accountability. So the $8.7 million, if I'm understanding correctly, is what's remaining from that original $21 million. Yes or no? It's less than what's remaining because we're transferring it. Got it. So of that, let's say $11 million roughly that has been expended with respect to the transfer as well, do we have any data as to how successful this has been? Do we have a serious problem with lead in our drinking water in these child care centers and in these schools?
Representative Srona. Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, we do have data. I don't have it in front of me, but would be happy to provide you with it. There was a reporting requirement within it, so I actually, when my kids' schools got tested and some of the drinking water sources were replaced in their school, I felt really good to know that that information, that that was done, and then that information was actually shared with parents. There a dashboard that CDPHE created to show the results and yes it has been it has been an important mechanism for large districts and small but especially for our rural districts across the state that wouldn have the funds to actually be able to do this testing and fixing themselves and this bill is providing for that. So it is serving all different kinds of districts and child care centers. And so, yes, there have been instances where we are discovering high lead levels and we are able to replace these drinking sources. Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. If I could just add to it, what surprised me in what was reported to us, I think we're always worried about the infrastructure, the pipes. and in fact the problems for the most part that have been found are in the fixtures, faucets in particular, and that's where they have been really focused in on. I was worried, quite honestly, in the older facilities that it might be pipes, but the department came back and said, no, Rick, it's primarily fixtures. AML Winter. Thank you, Madam Chair, and I rise in support of this. I'm on Colorado Rural Water Association Day. There was actually a woman that was here from Pueblo County Health Department, and she was talking about the success that they've had in Pueblo County. She handed out a handout, and she was advocating to make sure and keep this program, and we had probably about a 30 to 45-minute discussion that morning about it, and she really stressed to me what it's done for her area in Pueblo County. So on her behalf, I am her representative. I found out, and I appreciate you doing this. She is supposed to meet with me this summer and show me some data, but she really was up here advocating hard for it. So I know there's at least success in the district I represent, so thank you. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1391? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1391 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1392.
House Bill 1392 by Representative Sir Rodan Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the transfer of money from the Public Safety Communications Revolving Fund to the Public Safety Communications Trust Fund to support the digital trunk radio system.
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1392. To the bill. This is my favorite subject. is it something like a bad penny that just keeps coming back over and over and over this is about digital trunk radio system support and it is strictly a transfer within the department of public safety from the public safety communications revolving fund to the public Safety Communications Trust Fund for $2 million. And I ask for an aye. Aye vote. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1392?
Seeing none, the question before us is its passage.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1392 passes. Mr. Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1393.
House Bill 1393 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Moblin and Kirkmeyer, concerning subjecting specified cash funds to a three-year maximum reserve limitation instead of the annual maximum reserve limitation and a connection therewith, subjecting the public school construction and inspection cash fund and the health facility construction inspection cash fund to the three-year limitation. Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1393. To the bill. Thank you Madam Chair This bill adjusts the public school construction and inspection Cash Fund and the Health Facility Construction and Inspection Cash Fund and it allows them to hold a balance beyond the maximum reserve limitation for three years before decreasing their fees And there are some reasons, some technical reasons about the way and the reasons why we do this. It's because of the way that construction projects work, that fees get paid up front, and then they get used to inspect later, maybe years later. And so we wouldn't want to reduce fees and have certain projects paying for other ones. So this makes sure that the same projects are paying for their own inspections, and we ask for an aye vote. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1393? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1393 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1394.
House Bill 1394 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the conversion of the Motorcycle Operator Safety Training Fund to a cash fund subject to annual appropriation by the General Assembly and a connection therewith making appropriation.
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1394. To the bill. One of my colleagues just talked about this subject, and I appreciate his comments. this is to change the motorcycle operator fund to an annual appropriation as compared to be continuously appropriated and we have been doing more and more of this so this legislature can weigh in on important budgetary decisions and I ask for an aye vote Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1394? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage All those in favor say aye All those opposed, no The ayes have it. House Bill 1394 passes Mr. Shee will please do the title to House Bill 1395
House Bill 1395 by Representative Sirota and Taggart also Senators Maublin Bridges concerning the repeal of the Wildfire Resilient Homes Grant Program administered by the Department of Public Safety and in connection therewith transferring the balance of the Wildfire Resilient Homes Grant Program cash fund to the general fund
Representative Sirota Thank you Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1395 To the bill Thank you Madam Chair. This bill repeals the Wildfire Resilient Homes Grant Program and transfers the balance of the program's cash fund to the general fund. This was established in a bill in 2023 with a one-time general fund transfer of $100,000, which at the time we were assured we were going to be due some federal grant dollars to actually support this program. those federal grant dollars never came through. And so we were left with a cash fund balance and a program to be run with $100,000, which they have spent less than half of. I don't doubt that we do need to do some home hardening work around the state, but this is not a grant program that has been successful, one, because we don't have the funds for it, and two, because of the way in which it was set up and the way in which property owners had to receive a reimbursement for work. It is challenged in many ways. So I ask an aye vote for the sweep and repeal.
Is there any further discussion? Representative Brooks. Chair, thank you. So we've had some discussions over the past couple of days about different amounts of money that we might be able to move from here to there. I can remember one that occurred yesterday where I had asked about, it was a couple hundred thousand dollars. And I understand that any upsetting the apple cart is not particularly helpful after pretty much joint budget committee has got things in line. but my discussion that I had yesterday about a couple hundred thousand dollars to fund the intellectually and developmentally disabled community wasn't dismissed based on the amount of money, but during the discussion about the amount of money, it was mentioned that it was just really a very insignificant amount. And against the health care policy and financing budget, I have a hard time saying that it's not an insignificant amount. However, I also have a hard time looking at $53,790 and considering that to be a monumental amount for what we're trying to achieve here. I sit in the Transportation Housing Local Government Committee. I enjoy that committee, despite some of the committee members. I'm just kidding. I love everybody on the committee. And we have had several discussions around wildfire mitigation, about hardening wildfire areas. And we've had discussions about the situation that we're in right now with a terrible drought coming in upon us. And this Wildfire Resiliency Home Grant Program, I understand that there was only $45,000 in grants awarded, but at the same time, I don't know exactly how many homes, that $45,000 when you start to section out, what you can do with a grant and how many homes you're able to harden, or how many homes that by hardening with those grants that you're able to then help save other homes because you're not perpetuating the spread of embers, you're not perpetuating the spread of the fire. I find this to be for what we're up against, and everything that I keep hearing about water shortages and droughts and extreme wildfire risks, I find this to be a relatively insignificant area that we ought to be pulling from, given what we're getting back, but the risk that's associated with it. I don't have an amendment or anything to this, but I just wanted to get up, and I know how this works, but I just wanted to get up and say that I don't really appreciate it. There's another bill right behind it that has $200 million. Still $53,000. It's not much. So I wanted to get up and just express concern about that. happy to speak about the next one as well. So thank you. Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1395, the question before us is its passage.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1395 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1396.
House Bill 1396 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Moblin-Kirkmaier, concerning modifications to the Disaster Emergency Fund.
Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1396. To the bill. This bill sets the maximum annual unencumbered balance of the disaster emergency fund at million with any excess then transferring over to the general fund I would just say this fund has been growing over the years The DEF fund has been growing. And obviously, given the nature of our topography, having substantial funds set away for disaster, both for wildfire and floods is critical, but all we are doing here is setting a maximum level of $200 million, and if it should ever go over that, it would be transferred. The incremental amount only would be transferred into the general fund. It is not in this budget year whatsoever. So you're not seeing it show up either in 26, 27, and or 27, 28 at this point in time. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1396? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1396 passes. Mr. Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1397.
House Bill 1397 by Representative Sirota and Taggart, also Senators Maublin, Bridges, concerning the use of general fund money to support benefits provided to certain public safety personnel through a multiple employer health trust and a connection there with reducing appropriation.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1397. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill removes required appropriations for firefighter and peace officer benefit programs, and it keeps funding levels at the 25-26 levels. You know, these are good programs. I am very, very grateful for the work that our firefighters do in our communities and recognize the health challenges that they have due to the dangerous work that they have and the exposures that they have. So I understand why the original legislation was set up to create these funds. However, this is another example of a bill that had very small upfront costs, but those costs were set to grow greatly in the out years. For example, we are eliminating a required transfer of $2.5 million to the Firefighter Benefits Cash Fund that would occur July 1st of 2028, looking into that out year and recognizing the state of our budget, but also, again, maintaining current appropriation levels going forward. So that would see a reduction in appropriations of $250,000 this year, $750,000 next year, and then $2,750,000 in the following year. So, you know, it brings me no pleasure to have to carry this bill, but it is yet again one more example, I think, of a program that we cannot fully afford. And again, we are not eliminating it. We are reducing the required appropriations this year and going forward And I ask for an aye vote Representative Velasco Thank you so much Madam Chair I move L-001 to House Bill 1397 and ask that it be properly displayed. That is a proper motion.
And And it is before us. Please proceed. Thank you so much, Madam Chair. We know that the Colorado General Assembly has made a meaningful bipartisan investment to protect the health and safety of those who protect their communities. Through landmark legislation, the state created dedicated trusts to ensure firefighters have access to behavioral health, cancer coverage, and cardiac benefits, recognizing the significant and long-term risk of the profession. Senate Bill 22002 established a statewide behavioral health program for firefighters and their families. And Senate Bill 2489 and House Bill 24119 strengthened and expanded heart and cancer benefits through a more stable statewide trust system. These efforts have improved access to services at reduced cost and ensure more equitable coverage, including benefits for part-time and volunteer firefighters. Colorado has also invested in cardiovascular screening for peace officers, prioritizing early detection and prevention of life-threatening conditions. Minority Leader Caldwell. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members, we understand the predicament that the state is in, and we appreciate all the work that the JBC has done on this. I think the important thing here is that for this year, We understand that there was supposed to be a certain increase in this allocation for our firefighters and police officers. However, due to the budget issues, we are leaving that at previous levels. I think what the concern is going forward and looking forward, we're making certain cuts to appropriations down the road. That's kind of where the concern is and is what kind of spurned this amendment here is that we understand that in future years we may need to address those. However, we don't want to proactively do that now. But, again, we're not changing the actual appropriation for right now. We understand that we're going to have to leave it at the current levels. The concern is looking forward down the road to not make decisions, future decisions right now. We can make those decisions when we get there. So we certainly ask and request an aye vote. And again, thank you to the JBC for all the work they've had to do on all of this. Representative Velasco. Thank you so much, Madam Chair. An aye vote preserves stability, protects critical health programs for firefighters and peace officers, and honors the state's commitment to those who serve our communities without ignoring current budget realities. It ensures that future funding decisions are made transparently and with the benefit of up-to-date data. And I also want to thank our JVC colleagues for all their work. Is there any further discussion on Amendment L-001? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. L1 passes. To the bill, is there any further discussion on House Bill 1397? Seeing none the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1397 as amended All those in favor say aye All those opposed no The ayes have it House Bill 1397 as amended passes Mr Schiebel please read the title to House Bill 1398 House Bill 1398 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Maubelang-Kirkmaier, concerning the allocation of retail delivery fee revenue credited to the Multimodal Transportation and Medication Options Fund. Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1398. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. The Multimodal Transportation and Mitigation Options Fund consists of money transferred from the general fund, retail delivery fee revenue, and interest. Under current law, 85% of the money expended in the fund must be used for local multimodal transportation projects, with the remaining 15% spent on the state. The bill modifies this requirement so that the MMOF, beginning in July of 2026, the fund must be expended 70% on local projects and 30% on state projects. And this will help us meet some of the requirements of the transportation funding that we need to as a state while still maintaining some support of local projects. This is another difficult decision. I know that our local communities rely upon this fund. I know my community in particular appreciates multimodal transportation projects, but the reality of our budget situation requires us to change some of the allocation of funding so that we can meet our needs at a state level. Representative Sroda. Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just want to draw attention to part of the reason for this shift in allocation, and I don't know why we're doing it in two separate bills, but you will see the next bill that we are considering is eliminating the annual transfer of $10.5 million of general fund to the MMOF. And so because of that transfer, lack of transfer, we would not have enough funds to be able to continue some of the really crucial services that we are currently providing, including, for example, the very, very successful bus staying program that has been operating now in different parts of the state and providing a terrific transportation option, especially in our mountain corridors. And so these are separate bills but related, and that is the reason that we are making this shift in allocation. Is there any further discussion? Representative Luck. Thank you Madam Chair. This is one of those bills that I received outside input into and the concern is as relates obviously to the local governments that have already started into programs in this space and the funding will be reduced. and I'm just wondering because I didn't get a clear picture yesterday how many programs do we know with the local governments that may be paused or stymied by this particular reallocation if we know that. Representative Brown. Representative Brown. Thank you, Madam Chair. And I don't have a specific number. I know that it will impact local governments and their budgets. I know that, you know, the Budget Committee made different decisions last year that probably were even more impactful. And this is a better, a better step for our local governments. So, again, challenging times, and there will be impacts, but this is the nature of our budget this year. Seeing no further discussion, the question before us, Representative Richardson. Thank you, Madam Chair. I've looked through this and I honestly don't understand why CDOT, which I know they've got different pots of money, but they are funded in the billions each year. And this bill strips $1.7 million that was intended initially to be used for local projects to improve foot traffic around Main Street, shopping areas and retail strips in our small and rural communities. you know, connections to our fairgrounds, projects that have been incredibly valuable in areas that are underfunded and local governments that have continued to have funding stripped. It was referenced the adjustment made last year was the taking of $70 million out of this program, that this year we're looking at rebalancing an allocation to take 1.7 out of a very small amount that is dedicated to local projects and add that $1.7 million in the coming year to CDOT. If CDOT can't find $1.7 million, we need somebody else running that department, but that's a different discussion. I move L-001 to... Let me get myself... Yeah, L001 to 1398 and ask that it be properly displayed. That is a proper motion. And it is now displayed. Please proceed. Thank you. So for eight years prior to joining the legislature, I was a member of the Eastern Transportation Planning Region. I chaired or co-chaired that body for six years prior to coming up here. When this program started, there was admittedly a lot of effort and head scratching at the Transportation Planning Region level because up until that point, we had always been recommenders, prioritizers, inputers of desires to CDOT. But this program was the first one that actually gave transportation planning regions, those that serve our rural communities. The eastern TPR covered nine counties, essentially my district and the district north of me. We finally had some money of our own that we could grant to our own people. And there was some struggle in that because we weren really designed to be grant bodies So it took a little bit of time to work through that and make sure that monies were flowing out that the local communities receiving them knew how to use them. The year before I left, there was a tremendous breakthrough with the staff at CDOT in allowing and rewriting rules to allow that local projects would use local standards. in prior years we'd allocated money for sidewalks and then been told by CDOT that they had to be 8 inches thick and support a semi-truck when that was absolutely not a local standard and wasn't needed and we'd worked through all of that and we finally got money flowing out to actually take care of issues with local matches to these monies for projects that had lingered for decades and I absolutely believe that the impact on our citizens by allowing these monies to stay and the amounts that they were given to be used by our local communities to address local problems and we're talking transit, foot traffic, bike traffic, things that take people to local places not necessarily big highway moves but yes I understand Mustang can use it too but our local governments have learned how to do more with less. This isn't a lot of money. Leave it the way it is. Put this formula back the way it was. This is what that amendment does and let our local governments take care of our local citizens. CDOT has more than enough money. They're not using it well. Giving them more and expecting more has not worked out for us for decades. So I would recommend that this amendment be approved. Let's retain the status quo, and let's get some projects done locally where they will get done. Thank you. Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. Regarding the rest of the funds that CDOT has, most of those funds are not actually eligible for transit funding. So if it were, that ultimately, though, would mean cutting road projects and things across the state, which I don't think is what you want. More so than cutting road projects, though, it would mean cutting maintenance and operations projects like potholes. CDOT is planning to use, allocate the state funds this year to keep busting hole for another year in the face of these broader budget deficit cuts. But this would create another $1.7 million hole for CDOT to fill. And so I respectfully ask for a no vote. And I would say also, Bustang does serve the whole state, including our rural communities. I think it's an important priority to maintain. Representative Richardson. Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't know if there's anybody in this chamber that has sympathy for CDOT, but creating a $1.7 million hole in a multi-billion dollar department is a lot less impactful than creating a $1.7 million hole in our local level. Please, please vote yes on this amendment. Representative Brooks. Chair, thank you. I believe the part here that I know nothing about eastern regional planning region What I enjoyed about just listening to what my colleague offered there is understanding the local context, the local narrative behind the impact, the downstream impact. I understand that as we work through areas in order to try to find spots within the budget where we're trying to cut, we're trying to trim, we're trying to reallocate money, you know, it's very black and white, or in some cases pink. But there are numbers, and the numbers do not contain necessarily, outside of a footnote here or there, they don't contain really the narrative. They don't contain the entire story behind it. And what's concerning to me is that that's what gets lost. We just heard the context. We just heard what the downstream impact is, that the amount of time that it took to build out the program, to be able to get everything going, to be able to get it functional, and the growing pains that they went through in order to get to the point to use the money efficiently. and now looking at a change in that formula. I would ask that we pause a little bit and consider the real world kind of consequence of what that means at that level. I have found my colleague to be always very thoughtful, deliberate, to be very reasonable and be able to bring home kind of that connection and understanding what that connection is and understanding what that impact is to somebody who has served in that role, I think, is important to note, and I would ask for support on this amendment. Representative Souka. Thank you, Madam Chair. I come up here in support of the amendment. Representative from Ebert knows what he's talking about. This is $1.7 million out of a $2 billion fund. So let's keep it local. This is a very good amendment. We're going to get more things done if you keep this intact. Thank you. Representative Richardson. Thank you, Madam Chair. and I really don't want to kind of, oh, I'll just feel that spoiler alert. The next bill takes $10 million out of this fund next year. So you can't stand here and tell me that CDOT absolutely needs this because they need 1.7 and then turn around and take $10 million away from the program. That's what's coming next. So let's keep the funding the way it is now and then we'll talk about $13.99 in a moment. Thank you. Is there any further discussion on the amendment? Seeing none, the question before us is the adoption of amendment L-001 to House Bill 1398. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, no. The no's have it. House Bill 13, or no, the L-001 fails. To the bill, is there any further discussion on House Bill 1398? Seeing reptograph. Wow. Wow. I feel the love Okay Yeah this multimodal stuff I think we going in the wrong direction I don know why we giving CDOT more money I mean, we look at the amount of money that they have and you look at the results. Ninety-eight percent of the commuters rely on personal vehicles, not mass transit. but we need to look at real-world usage. Most, as I understand it, the fuel taxes and vehicle fees should be used exclusively for highways, and yet they're going to multimodal projects. We rank 43rd in road conditions, and now I see that the governor's realigned his, and now we're seed-outting the PUC with the same people. That took us down to 43 nationally. and now the solution is to give them more money. It doesn't seem like it's a, and then what we're doing with that, we're taking that money from local projects that are handled locally that have the accountability of local control and then we're giving it to a state agency that is taking us down to 43rd nationally in the road conditions. 7% of the rural interstates are in poor condition. Drivers lose 36 hours per year in traffic, but we don't have a revenue problem. we have a priority problem. So overall, I'm opposed in general of giving more money to CDOT until CDOT can show some level of priorities. So we have $6.5 billion in rail extension, but that only takes 44 to 5% of the commuters. The ridership has declined by 37%, while budgets have increased 184%. So why are we sending more money of the citizens of the Colorado taxpayers to programs that they don't want to use. And now do they not want to use them or are they just not run well, just not administered well? Because they obviously said, well we want these programs if we put these in place, or I would hope so, but now we've got costs up by 184% and ridership has declined. So we're kind of going the opposite direction. So why do we put more money into a program that fewer people want to use. Over 90% of the SIT residents don't use transit yet they subsidize it. Low-income workers especially, 76%. They need their vehicles. They need their vehicles. They can't just take the train and as one of our colleagues mentioned yesterday, a four-mile trip by bus takes an hour. Lumbering slowly, bumping along in the wrong direction. We have better solutions, yet we continue to force in this direction. Transit is often less practical and more expensive. We have lots of broken promises. So again, I'm opposed in general to giving an agency more money when they've taken us in the wrong direction because obviously what we need is a change of leadership. We need to move away. We need to move into a selection criteria that is based more on competence rather than cronyism. And so I recommend a no vote and we keep this money with the locality. Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1398? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. No. The aye has it. Houseville 1398 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to Houseville 1399. Houseville 1399 by Representatives Brown and Tigard, also Senators of Mabla and Kirkmeyer, concerning the elimination of the annual transfer from the general fund to the Multimodal Transportation and Mitigation Options Fund and in connection there with reducing and appropriation. Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1399. To the bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill eliminates the annual transfer of $10.5 million from the general fund to Multimodal Transportation and Mitigation options fund effective July 1 of this year. And it will eliminate all future transfers starting this year and then through the year 2031, I believe, when 2031-32, when it was scheduled to end. And please keep in mind that when this bill went into effect, beginning in Senate Bill 18-001 and then expanded upon at Senate Bill 21-260, the retail delivery fee did not exist. And today there is a significant retail delivery fee that supplements this fund. So differing from what I heard, we are not taking away money from this. We're not appropriating money, and there's a very real difference between taking money out of a fund versus appropriating money into the fund. And I ask for an aye vote. Representative Velasco. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move L002 to House Bill 1399 and ask that it be properly displayed. That is a proper motion. Give us one moment. Representative Velasco, please proceed. Thank you so much. Madam Chair, so as introduced, this orbital permanently eliminates funding for the statewide multimodal options fund, and this goes beyond the one-time transfer of funds in 26-27 to manage the budget crisis. In application, it will eliminate the $63 million the fund would have received over the next six years. This is on top of the $70 million that were swiped from the fund last year. And the Velasco-Richardson amendment creates a temporary pause in the funding transfer rather than a permanent elimination of funds. And this allows legislators the ability to evaluate the status of need versus an assumption that the MMOF will be needed for budget balancing. And we urge a yes vote. Representative Richardson. Thank you. I really don't like the bill at all, but this program has been of value. I understand the need to take money to make some balancing moves for the budget that we're actually working on this year. I don't see a reason to look out and decide it's unimportant for future years. I THINK WE NEED TO LEAVE THAT IN THE HANDS OF THOSE OF US THAT ARE SITTING IN THE CHAMBER IN THOSE YEARS TO DETERMINE WHAT THE PRIORITIES OF THIS STATE SHOULD BE SO I ACCEPT THE 10 MILLION REDUCTION for the coming year but we made a commitment to the people of the state under Senate Bill 260 to try to do something about our roads. We don't need to end that commitment this year. Let's just worry about the budget we're trying to put together and we'll worry about future years and future years. Thank you. Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. Just for clarification purposes, the MMORP is not about roads. It is about transit, just so we're clear on that. And I appreciate people wanting to keep to an agreement that was made in Senate Bill 260 some years ago. I will just remind you all that we worked very hard to balance this budget. There are several one-time reductions being made. This is one that would have counted as an ongoing reduction to our general fund, because if you don't like these ongoing cuts that we are making, we're going to have to continue to come back with a long bill package that has 64 orbitals in it, because we have to keep making these statutory changes. So I recognize the desire of folks to keep this funding. I don't like having to make this reduction. We just had to make choices about how to balance the budget and what kind of ongoing reductions we could live with. And since there is still the retail delivery fee that is coming into this fund, we just made a choice to keep this as an ongoing reduction. So I ask for a no vote. Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to remind us that CDOT, through their fees and structures, is supposed to be self-sustaining. It is not supposed to be supported by the general fund. That's the way it has been, and this was put in place to help. But since that period of time, the retail delivery fee has come about. And the retail delivery fee is now upwards of $20 million a year. I remind you, $20 million a year. At a certain point, the taxpayers of this state are entitled to keep the $10 million of the general fund when it's been more than offset by the retail delivery fee. We're not taking away from any fund whatsoever. We're just not making either this year or in the future a $10 million allocation from a general fund that is not supposed to be going into CDOT. Representative Richardson. Thank you, Madam Chair. and I absolutely respect that position, but this money is supposed to be going into CDOT because we passed a law to put it into CDOT. That's how this is supposed to be working. Now, we aren't trying to balance the budget for 27 and 28 or 29 and 30 or 30 and 31. We are working on 26 and 7, so I accept the cut there. I think it's appropriate. but we can address future cuts in future years Let do that Let move on accept this amendment, and move into the 1400 series orbitals. Representative Espinoza. Thank you, Madam Chair. I rise in opposition to this amendment, and partly because the good representative articulated that the basis of this amendment is that we shouldn't be binding, we shouldn't be bound by future, as future legislators, or bind future legislators by terminating this appropriation right now. However, that argument fully fails to recognize that the appropriation that they're asking us to maintain is based on the fact that a prior legislature bound us to that appropriation in the legislation. So fundamentally what we're doing now is taking back control of the legislature by adopting the JBC's amendment, JBC's approach, to say we should make this decision on an annual basis. Much of our discussion on this budget has been whether we are leaving control for future years on the different line items as priorities or not. That's what the arguments I've been hearing for the last two days are about. I would suggest this is an area where accepting the bill as written allows us as a legislature to let every future legislature decide whether this one line item needs more money or less money because that's all it's doing. If we're going to start, one of the complaints has been that we start with a budget that is already predisposed because there are certain numbers pre-populated based on statutory requirements. That seems to be something that becomes a question of where our priorities should be. This bill specifically is saying in this context, because there's other funding that already exists, we will look on an annual basis at where the extra money is to decide whether we have it to add to this fund. I would suggest that in this circumstance, we should stand with JBC's determination that given our current climate and what it looks like it'll be for next year, we should make this decision as we have the money available in future years and not bind future legislators to the determination of the prior appropriation which was mandated. I'd encourage a no vote on the amendment. Representative Richardson. Thank you, Madam Chair. I would submit that we're not tightly bound to past legislators. We're making a decision this year to cancel those monies. Let's make that decision for this year and let future legislators make their decisions. Is there any further discussion on the amendment? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of Amendment L-002 to House Bill 1399. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Amendment L-002 passes. To the bill, is there any further discussion on House Bill 1399? Seeing none, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1399 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1400. House Bill 1400 by Representative Sirota and Tigard, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning adjustments to the Public Employees Retirement Association's allocation of money to trust funds. Representative Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1400. To the bill. Thank you Madam Chair This is an important bill to modify the way the state annual direct distribution and health care trust fund contributions are credited to the divisional trusts in PARA There is no current fiscal impact but it may reduce future state expenditure obligations by avoiding the triggering of the AAP which would increase employer contributions, and it would also, in a mirroring way, increase employee contributions as well if a trigger was met. And so what we are doing is giving PARA the ability to allocate the direct distribution among the school, the state, school, and judicial division trusts in a way that will maximize the blended total contribution rate in order to avoid this automatic adjustment provision to the extent possible. I ask for an aye vote. Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1400, the question before us is its passage. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1400 passes. Mr. Sheebel, please read the title to House Bill 1401. House Bill 1401 by Representatives Roda and Taggart also centers Bridges and Kirkmeyer concerning transfers of money from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund and in connection therewith, transferring money from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to the Housing Development Grant Fund and the General Fund in State Fiscal Year 2025-2026, terminating future transfers from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to the Housing Development Grant Fund and the Adult Dental Fund and making reducing appropriations. Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1401. To the bill. This bill transfers in years 25-20, has transfers in years 25-26, and as well 26-27, or modifications. I should say, in transfers. So in this particular current year, if you're looking at the numbers, it transfers $75 million to the general fund in 25-26. But there is an offset of that of $30 million, a $30 million transfer that would have gone to the Housing Development Grant Fund, but leaves $2.2 million in terms of a transfer there. Now, let me pause for a second and talk about the housing transfer portion of this. Going back to House Bill 19-13-22 and then House Bill 20-13-70, these two bills created a mechanism to transfer up to $30 million from the UPTF to the Housing Development Fund in the Division of Housing each year. But it was based on a forecast in June of each year, and that transfer only was to take place if we were below the TABOR cap. So the years previous, there has never been a $30 million transfer. Never. Because we were above the Tabor C-cap. This would be the first year that this program would qualify. This bill removes that qualification. Moving on to year 2627, for me, Many years, the adult senior dental fund has been funded by the unclaimed property trust fund. This bill also touches on that and stops that and instead funds that through the general fund. So it will no longer be taken from the unclaimed property trust fund. And I realize that's a lot of moving parts all at once. Again, there's a quiz on this if you guys want to participate. But I move to, or I already moved, I would ask for an aye vote on this set of transfers. Is there any further discussion? Representative Marshall. Thank you, Madam Chair. It's an honor to serve with you. An honor to serve with you. I'd like to, I move Amendment L-002 to House Bill 1401. That is a proper motion. Give us one moment. That amendment is before us. Please proceed. Colleagues, this is the second part of that two-parter that I had told earlier with the Reserve. we can still do the right thing and not raid the unclaimed property trust fund for $45 million of the corpus. And again, my understanding is it's $45 million, both from the Treasury and one of our JPC colleagues, the $27 million is coming out of the interest part, but $45 million is coming directly out of the principal. We have never done that before. We have taken money out before by borrowing it, 20-year, interest-free, no-payment loan. That way that doesn't count against the Tabor cap. Because if we did just take the money out and we were above the Tabor cap, we'd just have to turn around and give that money back to the taxpayers. We're below the Tabor cap now. That's our first opportunity to just flat-out raid the UBTEF. Many states have a statute. We should have one. I've discussed with a few colleagues the necessity to have one. But we don't. So this is just a naked grab of money that does not belong to the state. And just because we whip it in a budget, remember, unclaimed property trust fund. We want people to trust us in this building, and yet we can't even handle a trust fund. So I ask that we support this and do the right thing. Again, even taking it out of our own back pocket of the reserves is far better than taking it from somebody else when it's not money that belongs to us. Thank you. Is there any further discussion? Rep Bottoms? Rep Bottoms. Thank you, Chair. I don't like taking money out of the reserve, but I agree with Representative Marshall. Well, that was difficult to say. I'm just kidding. I actually agree with him on this because the reserve is state money. not one penny of this unclaimed property belongs to the state not one penny We already used up the interest That was discussed in appropriations This is not our money. Every single penny in the unclaimed property trust fund has a citizen of Colorado. Actually, it has citizens of other states, too. But it has citizens' names attached to every single penny. we do not have the ethical right and i don't actually believe we have the legal right to go and take people's money without permission you didn't ask them you didn't go there's there's probably money in there for uh representative from el paso county you didn't ask his permission there's money in there for the um for the guy that works down at the gas station in denver here you didn't ask his permission it has his name attached to it It has their names attached to it. Every single penny belongs to somebody, and there is not one penny in that unclaimed property trust fund that has State of Colorado on it. Not one penny. But all of it has somebody's name, and we're stealing their money. You say, well, we're going to pay it back. Yeah, we've done a real good job of that in the state of Colorado over the last 20 years. This is people's money that we are taking unethically, and again, I believe illegally. And so even though I don't like taking from the reserve, at least we're taking our own money instead of taking the citizens' money. And even that, where did we get our own money? All of our money comes from the taxpayers. But these are directly tied to people's names, and I think we need to keep our hands off of this. And I think there needs to come a time, actually, when we get lawsuits and legal process involved in this, because this is not the state of Colorado's money, and it is not at our discretion to be able to use this right here. It belongs to them. Keep your hands off. If you're going to take it, take it from your own back pocket. Rep. Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will just point out, I think my colleagues mentioned this, but this bill actually ends many of the ongoing transfers from the unclaimed property trust fund that had already been going on for the adult dental program as well as the HDGF. So while we are taking a transfer in this year, we are ending the ongoing transfers. And so in the out years, this is actually a benefit to the trust fund and leaving more money where it is. And I will just say that I am also committed to making sure that Coloradans can get back the money that is theirs. I have recently discovered that I have unclaimed property in the unclaimed property trust fund. And I have been working diligently with the treasurer's office to try to get that. It is not that easy. And I hope that this treasurer and others will continue to try to make that easier for folks and something that we as a legislature can work on as well because I hope that we can get folks their money back. But in the meantime, this is a benefit to the overall trust fund, and so we ask for an aye vote. Rep to graph. I ask for a no vote on the amendment and an aye vote on the bill. That's what I meant. We knew what you meant. Rep DeGraff. Seeing no further discussion the motion before us is the adoption of L2 Reb Kelty To the amendment Reb Kelty Thank you, Mr. Chair. To this amendment, you know, I'm not really happy with the amendment, to be honest with you. but I'm happier with the amendment. The money in this trust fund, it says it's an unclaimed property trust fund. Really what it should say is not claimed yet property trust fund. By taking such a huge amount of money, what happens if everyone claims their money? And then that money's not there for them to claim. It doesn't belong to the state to even touch to begin with. So the amendment at least changes the amount to where it's not such a great harm to the people. We shouldn't even, this shouldn't even be a topic that we shouldn't even be talking about. This shouldn't even be on the table to be done. But if you're going to do this to the people, if you're going to outright steal from them, make it a little less. Support the amendment. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L2. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. No. The amendment fails. To the bill. Reptograph. Maybe we should just rename it and call it the unclaimed property slush fund, and then we would at least have some accuracy. So I agree with my previous colleague that the reserve and the citizen, the reserve and this are both citizen money, and we should be looking at, and we should just be considering those as untouchable. They're not there. But the continually looking over there going, wow, if we could just have that money somehow, then we would be able to get the budget under control. And that's obviously not true. because it's, I know we looked it up a few years in previous, because I was very surprised that we had actually dipped into it. But we keep dipping into it, and we keep not repaying it. We, you, keep not repaying it. And so I don't know why the citizens would trust when their money is being used as a slush fund and not a trust fund. And I understand on the JBC side, you know, looking at all of the options, looking at all the options, or at least all the options you're allowed to look at. So, and then previous things about only if it's below the Tabor cap. So setting something up in motion that, oh, we'll only tap it if it goes below the Tabor cap. Going below the Tabor cap doesn't make it right. It just kind of deferred it for a little while, like, oh, if we all of a sudden have not enough money because the economy is going in the direction of all micromanaged economies. Because, again, the crisis that we have here is not a matter of H.R.1. It is a matter of self-inflicted failure. So I move L003 to House Bill 1401 To the amendment, Reptograph. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I think I actually have some money in that account, But as was said, it's not as easy. It's like, well, this is your money, but now you have to, there's all kinds of stuff that you have to go through, which makes sense because it's my money and I have to prove my identity. Now, the state, however, doesn't have to prove its identity and doesn't have to prove it's my identity. The state is just going to, because we passed a law that we could dip into a trust fund, That's a little scary in and of itself, that the state has made laws and said we can dip into trust funds. I think that should be, that's worthy of striking fear into your heart. So because this is all allocated and pretty much identified to who owns it, so on or after July 1, this is just to say you need to notify these people. If you're going to dip into their trust fund, if you're going to dip into the money, then you need to tell them that you're dipping into their money. And you need to tell them, identify the nature except for the property that does not have a fixed value, the value of the property that is subject to the notice. Look it up. say what property is going to be borrowed from, borrowed against, and describe the process of an owner that seeks to return the property and how to file a claim with the administrator. So instead of just saying, well, nobody's coming forward for it, but we have a name that's attached to it, then we do our best guess and send it to them and say, look, we think you would definitely be a better steward of this money than the state, and so we think you should have it. because anybody would be a better steward of that money than the state. So I ask for an aye vote. Rep. Serrata. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the representative from El Paso's desire to ensure that those property owners receive notice of their property. I think these statutory requirements are not – I don't think that we should put in statute at this time these requirements, which the Treasurer's Office already has a program in place and requirements that they follow to try and get people their unclaimed property. they actually are asking for more resources to do that. So you'll have the opportunity to consider that later, I believe. But we also had a number of discussions at the committee and recommendations from our analysts about how to put into place a better system and process for maintaining the fund and how to handle any future transfers or the idea of abandoned property, if you will, for those who have deceased and for property that will remain unclaimed in perpetuity for such reasons. So respectfully, I would ask... for a no vote, appreciating the intent with the amendment, but that we are not ready to put such things in statute at this time. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L3. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed say no. The amendment fails. Rep. Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the sponsors and all the good discussion, because I know in this building we're very interested in other people's money. And I don't generally speak directly to the camera, but people of Colorado, claim your property. We're holding it. We're earning interest that we're using. We're not earning interest for you. Just go online, find it, and then maybe if everybody claims it, we won't have these discussions anymore. I move Amendment L-001 to 14-01 and ask that it be properly displayed. To the amendment, Rep. Richardson. Thank you. This amendment does two things. There's two parts. the first really acknowledges and I appreciate that we're not going to take we've kind of put a sunset on taking any money for specific programs but for the next fiscal year the 26-27 to bar taking anything below interest and not dipping into principle but the second part I'm hoping you do find appealing because though the last amendment might not be fully fleshed out and not ready to be put in statute. I do think there would be great value in having the Joint Budget Committee and staff look at how other states deal with their unclaimed property and come back and report to us as a whole with some recommendations on how to better manage this fund going forward in a way that protects the property of the citizens that it rightfully is, but put some guardrails on so we're not just looking at this every year as perhaps a slightly easier take than our own reserve. So I would ask for an aye vote on this. Or a yes. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L1. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. No. The amendment fails. Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1401, the motion before us is the adoption of House Bill 1401. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed to say no. The bill passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1402. House Bill 1402 by Representatives Sirota and Tigard, also Senators of Abilene Bridges, concerning the transfer of money to the Capital Construction Fund. Rep. Sirota. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1402. To the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is the transfer bill to fund capital construction and information technology projects. As everyone is very well aware, we faced a very difficult budget to balance this year. We were able to fund most of controlled maintenance and a couple of the projects recommended by the CDC and similarly the JTC So this bill will transfer the funds necessary to take care of those projects I do have one technical amendment, though. I move L-003 and ask that it be displayed. To the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This just adds the word dollars after 55 on page 2, line 20, and I ask for an aye vote. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L3. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The amendment passes. To the bill. Seeing no further discussion, rep winner, AML winner. Thank you, Mr. Chair. and members we work on this cdc budget we work on it very hard and there's two things i'm really excited to see in there first and foremost it's the 4.14 million for the campus utility infrastructure at the mental health hospital in pueblo we all know with right now the issue we're violating people's constitutional rights and what the state's paying to be able to do that which in my opinion is just crazy but i think the thing that i'm really excited to see here is the 13.78 million dollars for the Colorado School of Deaf and Blind. This has been something that we've... AML winner. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of 1402. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed to saying no. The bill passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1403. House Bill 1403 by Representatives Brown and Sroda, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the prevention of the transfer of unexpended information technology annual depreciation lease equivalent payments to the general fund. Brett Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1403. To the bill. This bill, thank you, Mr. Chair. This bill, beginning in 2026-27, prohibits the annual transfer of IT ADLE payments from the IT capital account in the capital construction fund to the general fund. However, no ADLE payments are expected to be credited to the fund in 2026-27 as no IT capital projects have received funding. Current law requires appropriations for information technology capital projects to include an amount sufficient to cover the estimated annual depreciation lease equivalents, or ADLE, as I mentioned, which are credited to the capital account. This bill exempts IT ADLE payments from these annual transfer requirements, and we ask for an aye vote. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of House Bill 1403. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The bill passes. Mr. Sheba, please read the title of House Bill 1404. House Bill 1404 by Representatives Therode and Taggart, also Senators Mobley and Bridges, concerning transferring money from the Tobacco Education Programs Fund to the Preschool Programs Cash Fund and in connection therewith making and reducing appropriations. Rep. Taggart. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I always get the complicated transfers, which I'm happy to do. for fiscal year 26 this bill transfers 10 million dollars from the Program Fund Rep Taggart can you move the bill Can you please move the bill Did you move the bill? Oh, I'm sorry, I did not. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1404. Okay, to the bill. So in 2627, this bill transfers $10 million from the Tobacco Education Program Fund, which originates from the Tobacco Holding Fund to the Preschool Programs Cash Fund on June 30, 2027. with a requirement and stipulation that the transfer be of the money that originated, going back to, the 2020 tax holding fund. Additionally, the bill reduces the general fund appropriation for the universal preschool program by $10 million. And it correspondingly increases the appropriation from this preschool program's cash fund that got $10 million before to the same amount for the universal preschool program. And if you followed all of that, it's amazing. And I move for an aye vote. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of House Bill 1404. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The bill passes. Mr. Shiba, please read the Title to House Bill 1405. House Bill 1405 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Mablan-Kirkmaier, concerning transfers of money from certain cash funds to the general fund. Rep Sirota. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1405. To the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is a big one. This is a bill to make many cash fund transfers to the general fund for balancing. In the current fiscal year, that would represent just about $100.5 million, and in the next budget year, $86 million. dollars. So you can see within your fiscal note and within the long bill narrative, all of the transfers that are coming from most state departments as we are moving funds from various cash funds within the budget to the general fund for balancing. And I ask for an aye vote. Rep. Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that. And I appreciate my colleagues on the JBC for working with me on this bill. I will say that this particular bill is extremely important to our overall budget package, and it is these transfers of money that are allowing us to, for lack of better words, soften the blow and ensure that we are able to make a few fewer cuts this year than would otherwise be necessary. It's a challenging situation and certainly while we are trying to control our spending, we are also trying to make sure that the people of Colorado don't get disproportionately hurt. And this bill allows us to do that. Rep to graph. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I like the it true trying to control spending failing to control spending but trying So trying is the operative Trying and failing So let's look at some of these things. Local Governance Severance Fund. So why do we have $27,300,000 in there? OIT revolving fund, $10 million severance tax operational fund, $11,150,000 school and child care drinking water fund $5,300,000 community impact cash fund so we have programs, some of those, I have to go back and look at I think there was some security funds, something about the child care drinking water fund earlier. I'd have to go back and find that bill. Maybe I'll do that when I'm back on the bench. But Mobile Home Park Water Quality Fund, $3 million. So all these funds that were created and we said, hey, we really need this money. We need this money from the citizens of Colorado because these are critical programs. Not so much. Not so much. Because they're not so much critical as some of the other things like a $14.7 million cap program capped at $95 million. Those are priorities. Mobile home, controlled maintenance trust fund, $1.9 million, scale-up grant fund, supplemental state contribution fund, identification unit cash fund, public safety and correct cost fund, unused state-owned real property fund, qualified apprenticeship immediate fund, intermediary fund, records and reports, uninsured employer fund, tobacco settlement defense fund. So it's just very, I mean, the whole thing is a shell game. We make cash funds. We fill up the cash funds. We say it's for a program, kind of a trust fund in a sense, because the citizens of Colorado trusted that the money that they're raising would be used for those programs. So the citizens of Colorado, the gallery. So we accumulate these funds. We put them in cash funds. And then we transfer $186.7 million from various cash funds into the general fund. So it turns out that those programs that we said were for specific things end up being for, so it looks like fixed and rotary, I didn't even notice there was a whole other page here, but that makes sense to get to $186 million. Fixed and Rotary Wing Ambulances Fund, $215,000 Workers' Compensation Immediate Payment Fund, $200,000 Electric Recording Technology Fund, $200,000 Local Government Backfill Cash Fund, $16.7,000 So some of these programs we actually need to go back and we need to go and say, Look, if these are not essential programs, if these are not essential services that are provided by the government, then we should be out of them. We shouldn't have gotten into them in the first place. That's why we're trying but failing to sustain, to rein in spending with this self-inflicted pain. Because eventually, as Margaret Thatcher said, socialism runs out of other people's money. So I move L-004 to House Bill 1405 and ask that it be displayed. To the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So if we're going to transfer money, we should probably make sure it's going into, if we're going to put something in a bucket, we should probably make sure that bucket is not full of leaks. So prior to any transfer of money from a fund created in the state treasury to the general fund, the state auditor and the Joint Budget Committee shall certify to the state treasurer the unexpended and unencumbered balance of the fund. notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the State Treasurer shall not initiate any transfer of money from the State Treasurer, excuse me, from a fund created in the State Treasurer to the General Fund until the State Treasurer has received the certified balance of the fund as required by subsection 1 of this section. So this is just an accounting process to make sure that the money, we know where the money is coming from, that we know where the money is going to. We have, especially if there's any thought that someday we're going to repay it. Fortunately, in 2025, the economy seems to be turning around somewhat, but it's still facing very great headwinds of the General Assembly tying the shoes of the economy together, of our economy together, and basically hobbling it. So there's a lot of funds here. I'm not saying they should have been collected by our government in the first place, but this is, again, where we made a contract. We made a contract with the citizens of Colorado, and now we've just turned them into general taxes. So whatever these funds were collected of for some specific purpose, they're now just general funds, general funds for the General Assembly to do whatever it generally wants to do with them. And I don't think that is a great marker of trust for the citizens of Colorado. I ask for an aye vote. Red Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I ask for a no vote on this amendment. Quite frankly, it's unnecessary. Our Joint Budget Committee staff get regular reports from the Comptroller's Office about the status and the fund balances, and they make recommendations to the Joint Budget Committee based on what the balances of those funds are. This would be a redundant process and I'm sure it would overwhelm the state auditor. We ask for a no vote. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L4. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. No. The amendment fails. Rep Kelty. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I have some good news today. I move L006 and ask for it to be properly displayed. To the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chair. and I have to say tiptoe through the tulips today. So what I have been able to find, yesterday we found some money. And what we did as you know Colorado is in this current financial crisis and we found money yesterday in the governor I call it the gardening fund but anyways, in his mansion maintenance fund and in the cash fund that we freed up yesterday with our vote. It was over $74,000. We freed that money up, And then we also freed up money for the veterans to be able to use, you know, for the veterans trust fund that Colorado has, for them to be able to utilize out of the fund. We have to legislate that. And we did that yesterday. So good for them. We've got that done. My goal was to then put this money also into the veterans trust fund. But because of the previous amendment that I had, there was a title challenge. Money could go in, but it couldn't come out. So I understand that. So we still freed up this money, and so we need to put the $74,000 somewhere. Somewhere for maybe your rating day. As we know, every nickel counts. In this case, every tulip. So we need to be creative. So what this amendment does is it actually takes that $74,654 from this fund, from the Governor's Mansion Maintenance Fund, and puts it back into the general fund for a rainy day. This way, everyone's included in having to make cuts across the state, and that includes the governor. So even though it may seem like a little bit, that little bit can go a lot. but because of the title of 1405, we weren't able to put it out and put that additional into the Veterans Fund, but that's okay. We took care of them yesterday. These freed funds, if you think about it, we can leave it there for any day, which is a good thing to do. Why spend it? Just because we have it. I advise we don't, but if we did, we could put it towards the IDD community, homeschool initiatives, senior dental care, agricultural grants, even possible adoption services. Either way, we did good yesterday. Let's do good today, and I'm asking for a yes vote on this amendment. Thank you. Rep Bottoms. Thank you, Chair. I do want to rise in support of this, and the reason is because I want to be consistent with all things Governor. Anytime we can limit the powers of the governor or take some of the money away from that, I want to make sure that we do that. I think the governor has too much power and too much money. I might change my mind next year. But right now, that's the way I believe on this. And we want to make sure that we can do this. And this money just goes into the ether. So it just makes it something that you've got extra money sitting there. You guys have got to like that. You're just going to have the extra money sitting there, and then you can do horrible things with it. But I believe strongly in this amendment. Brett Brown. Thank you, Matt. Mr. Chair, I ask for a no vote on this amendment. I will say that this amendment by itself does nothing but just take money from the mansion fund and put it into the general fund. And I will say that the mansion fund is funded predominantly by fees that people pay to utilize the mansion. and then those fees are there to pay for the maintenance of the fees. So there is certainly a fee aspect to the mansion and to the services that it provides to folks This obviously takes those fees that people have paid for the use of the mansion and just dumps them into the general fund We ask for a no vote. We don't think this is a very good way of accounting in the state of Colorado. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L6. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say no. No. The amendment passes. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of House Bill 1405 as amended. All those in favor, say yes. Rep Brown. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much. I have one technical amendment related to the severance tax. I move L-001 to House Bill 1405 and ask that it be displayed. To the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I apologize. This moves the date of the transfer of the local government severance tax fund, and it's based on cash flow issues. So instead of doing it this September, we would move that date into June of the following year. We ask for an aye vote. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L1. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed to say no. The amendment passes. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of House Bill 1405. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed to say no. The bill passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of the House Bill 1406. House Bill 1406 by Representatives Roda and Taggart, also Senators Amaboli and Kirkmeyer, concerning the repeal of certain provisions regarding the funding of capital construction and connection therewith reducing an appropriation. Rep. Taggart. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1406. To the bill. You're getting another complicated one. Yeah. Mr. Chair, 1406 is repealing capital construction funding requirements. Under current law, our state agencies and our institutions of higher education that receive an appropriation from us through the general fund for capital construction are required to set aside an amount of money each year equal to the recorded depreciation of the capital asset that was approved for the purposes of long-term maintenance costs. These depreciations are referred to as ADLE payments and are appropriated to those corresponding agencies. And what's been happening recently is then they are credited to the capital complex for the renovation of this complex in the Department of Personnel. This bill repeals that and saves our institutions, in particular, a significant amount of money. Furthermore the bill requires the state treasurer in this particular situation to transfer million from dollars from the Capital Complex Renovation Fund for this year on June 20th and then requires the state treasurer to transfer the remaining balance I believe on June 30th, 2027. Yes. And then it repeals the capital complex master plan in total in the DPA and its fund. And it yields as I said $15.3 million for our current fiscal year of 2526 and nearly $28 million in fiscal year 26-27. And I ask for an aye vote. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of House Bill 1406. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The bill passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of the House Bill 1407. House Bill 1407 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Amablan Kirkmeyer, concerning state money that was used to refinance money received from the Federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund in connection therewith, transferring unspent state money to the general fund, extending a deadline for the use of state money and reducing appropriations. Brett Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1407. To the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, Colorado received about $3.8 billion in federal coronavirus state fiscal recovery funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA. This was deposited into a 2021 cash fund and then transferred to various other cash funds. This bill transfers state money totaling $35.7 million to the general fund from several funds that were used to hold the federal coronavirus recovery money. And it also makes adjustments to various appropriations related to these transfers. And it gives the Department of Human Services spending authority through the end of the next fiscal year for capital construction costs related to the youth neuropsych facility at the Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan, or what some people call SIMHIFL. We ask for an aye vote. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of hospital. Oh, Rep Taggart. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to add to this so everybody knows these are totally unencumbered funds. So they are not being taken away from any projects. So please do understand that these are totally unencumbered funds. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of House Bill 1407. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The bill passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1408. House Bill 1408 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Modeling Bridges, concerning the establishment of processes for the determination of budget requests for the upcoming state fiscal year. Rep. Taggart. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1408. To the bill. This bill helps us a great deal in the JBC when it comes to budgeting. It requires all state agencies from all three branches of government on September 1st to give us a budget, the beginnings of a budget, That includes their base budget, as well as the annualizations of any prior year legislation, plus any adjustments that have been made during the course of that preceding fiscal year, so that we have a good base. In addition to that, it requires on the November 1st budget that all agencies are required to provide information related to OSB's calculations for common policies. Compensation being one of those, IT being one of those, legal being one of those. and that is the two in combination are what are presented to us on November 1st. And you might ask the question, why are we going to the details of this bill? The answer to that was, in fact, we didn't have a complete picture of, in particular, one branch of how the effect of common policies and what effect to prior year legislation when the governor provided us his balanced budget. And this addresses that so we have all of that information all at once so we don't have surprises the day after. And I ask for an aye vote. Reptograph. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So this, I move L-001 to L-1408. All right. To the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So page three, strike line 18, substitute committee staff, proposed budget that assumes a current services baseline which reflects the appropriations necessary for the continuation of existing programs pursuant to current law, so in accordance with current law, as adjusted for inflation, case load growth, and any other necessary adjustments. A proposed budget that reflects a 5% reduction in the state agency's base budget, and a proposed budget that reflects a zero-based budgeting principles for existing and proposed programs, which must include, so what we need to do is we need to go back and we need to really dig into the actual budget. And I know JBC has, but this is just to get us to zero-based budgeting. A statement listing any other state, federal, local agencies that administer a similar or cooperating program, outlining the interaction among the agencies, a statement of the statutory authority and for the history and quantified objectives of the program. You've got to have objectives. Quantification of the need of the program. You need to have metrics. You need to have intent to what it's going to accomplish and what it is accomplishing, not just a nebulous program that's out there that so many seem to be. Indicators of quantified measures of effectiveness If it a serious program you need to have actual metrics You need to know what you measuring against because you need to know if you achieving it Now this is one I have a particular beef with with the Colorado Energy Office the Charlottesville Energy Office is that they have no objectives other than to cut carbon, but they have no idea why. Just that it's going to cost us billions and billions of dollars, and they're willing to spend billions and billions of your dollars and have nothing to show for it. The level of effort required to accomplish each activity. So this would give you a weighted matrix. So this gives each program, and then you would be able to say, all right, where do you get the most bang for your buck? What are the priorities? It might be a higher-level priority might have an easier means of achieving it. A lower priority might be a greater. So now it would be a simple multiplication to say where are you achieving the most with the money of the citizens of Colorado? because we need to take this back and this is how we strip things down to the nuts and bolts of the budget. A statement detailing what could be accomplished by the funding of the activity at any level specified by the Joint Budget Committee. So what this does, introduces zero-based budgeting type ideas into our budget, and it forces the agencies themselves to do a better internal analysis of their processes and not just asking for more money and saying how critical they are like in our smart hearings. So I ask for an aye vote on this amendment. Rep. Black. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the title to this bill is broad, very, very broad, concerning the establishment of processes for the determination of budget requests for the upcoming state fiscal year. and I am grateful to my colleague from El Paso County for bringing forth an idea under that bill title that deals with zero-based budgeting, which I think is different than what is contemplated under this in terms of base budget definition, but still falls within the conversation we are having today. You know, it's interesting. I ran a bill two years ago and then two years, I think, before that on the topic of zero-based budgeting and the importance of bringing that into the General Assembly. I'm grateful for this conversation here today because I think a number of people who pay attention increasingly to what's going on in the legislature may not understand that the way we do our budgets is not the way I think some might contemplate we do them. And many might suspect that we start with zero and that we then build a budget from zero. But in reality, we start really from what we appropriated last year, and then we make adjustments up and down based on a variety of factors and conversations. And so what can happen over time is the accumulation of costs and budget items that are no longer relevant, no longer really desired. we saw that over the last year or two as we've looked at all of these different cash funds and closing out this program that hasn't been around and nobody has used for seven years etc etc and so doing a zero budget analysis helps to to clean that out and the I haven actually got a chance to really digest or even read what the representative from El Paso County is proposing but I will say that the idea of having zero budgeting to clean that out is a good one There are problems, though, when you consider a multibillion-dollar budget and trying to do zero-based budgeting year over year, right? To start from zero every single year is just not tenable. But the idea of a rotating cycle where every 8 to 10 years we're looking at a particular department and requiring that kind of analysis helps to eliminate some of the duplicative programs that we find or some of the programs that aren't actually working and helps us to have access to all of the information we need to really make sense of things. you know Texas undertook this program this type of budgeting I think in the early 2000s late 90s if I remember correctly again this was like two years ago that I ran this bill but they were able to not only balance their budget but find a surplus as a result of doing that kind of work and so I do support the notion of zero-based budgeting and I do support the idea of bringing bringing some of the requests related to reductions and what have you from the agencies themselves so that the JBC doesn't have some of the same work that they have in trying to draw, like blood draw from some of the department's ideas as to where to cut. And so I rise in support of this amendment. Rep DeGraff, we're thrilled to hear you have more to add. Thank you, Mr. Chair. All right. You did. So getting back to my colleagues' points, yes. The point here, proposed budget assumes current service baseline, asking the agencies to do a yearly analysis, to do a yearly analysis of their programs. I suppose that doesn't necessarily mean the JBC needs to review all of them. They could review them on a 10% basis. They could review them on a random basis, but it would be the baseline for an auditing. And if you want to figure out whether something is effective, you need to have measures of effectiveness. These are very basic ideas that used in the military. You need to go back and you need to review what you're trying to achieve. everybody needs to go back and take that time and figure out what it is they're trying to achieve and if you can't figure out what you're trying to achieve and you can't make that case then you probably don't need that money if you can't do an internal scrutiny so this would require all of the agencies to do the internal scrutiny do the internal work that they should be doing otherwise that they should be doing anyways and then how the JBC uses that information to be a little bit more forthcoming, to encourage those agencies to use that fraud. And those agencies that are then found subsequently, we need to also use the technology that we have to go into those line-by-line items, those line-by-line spending items. Not programmatic details, but line-by-line spending details. We need to use that technology, the technology that has found $285 million worth of fraud, up to $500 million worth of fraud in a single program. And the way we do that is you start at zero So this is a way to get back figure out what our priorities are figure out what we trying to achieve Now I think, and then go from there because we need to be good stewards of the money of the citizens of Colorado and not taking the time, not taking the little bit of time that it requires to make sure that you are scrutinizing all of that to actually be good stewards, I don't think that's a big ask. I think the JBC should have all of this information available at its fingertips every year to be able to dig into the programs immediately. and we need to, again, we need to also augment this with the technology of digging into the line-by-line expenditures and root out the fraud so that we can actually prioritize the needs of the citizens of Colorado, start doing government for them and not to them. Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of L1. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed say no. The amendment fails. Rep Luck. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So if my understanding of what has transpired in the JBC over the last year, two years and a half, I guess, or a year, 18 months, in any case, is right, it has been a challenge to get information from departments. And so I'm encouraged to see that there is this attempt to bolster what you're getting initially in that initial budget package. And all I have been able to read, to be honest with you, is the words on the page. I haven't had a chance to pull these sections and kind of see what else is in this area. But what concerns me is an enforcement mechanism. And so I'm just wondering, is there an enforcement mechanism somewhere else in this general section of 2-3, what have you, that in the event the agencies are non-responsive to your requests, there is something that JBC can do about that. Because I do like what you're trying to accomplish here, but if they can just simply say thanks but no thanks, obviously that's not helpful. So I'm just wondering if now would be a good time to possibly consider an enforcement mechanism or add something in if it doesn't already exist. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the question. There's not an enforcement mechanism per se. I guess the enforcement is, and truly this isn't so much about, well, it really is our challenge with the fact that the governor, as the chief executive here, submits a budget proposal for the entire state. But there are also independent agencies that are independent from the governor. We have the entire judicial branch. You know, we have the Department of Law. We have the Treasury, the Secretary of State. And so the governor has to submit a budget proposal that is inclusive of those departments. but it doesn't there has not exactly been great communication they have the ability to submit their own budget requests, they're not bound by the governor's request but we have challenged by budget submissions that don't take into account certain expenses that are going to be required in these independent parts of government. And that leaves us with a budget request when the independents bring in their requests, they don't match up with what was reflected in the governor's budget. and that means somebody gets less money. And so that has been the challenge, and that truly is the consequence of not having a sort of accurate representation of, in particular, certain presumable fixed costs around centrally appropriated costs and the impact of compensation decisions across the state. And so the purpose of this bill is to ensure that everybody is putting in the necessary information to get closer to the right numbers at the right time so that when that budget request is submitted to the General Assembly in November, it is more reflective of actual costs. Preserving the independence of those independent branches of government to submit their own budget requests, but at least a little more reflective of reality. So I guess the enforcement mechanism is somebody's going to get less. Thank you. as compared to what they truly are, that can be a significant delta. And last year also, this body, we approved additional judges and staff across the state. and in that prior year legislation, it had two phases. It had this year's phase, 25-26, and next year's. And again, if that is an estimate or if it's not even there, we start off in the hole. And I would reinforce what Madam Chair says. our biggest enforcement here is if they don't provide it, they're not going to get funded for it. So I don't know that we need to police it because that's just the way it's going to work. Representative Luck.
Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for that answer. And to all of the legislative liaisons from the different departments who are listening in, please take note. You have been told the enforcement mechanism is if you don't abide, you don't get money.
Representative Bottoms.
Thank you, Chair. I know this is not going to be an ongoing issue, but when you're including all those employees, and those are all legitimate things, and I do like this, I do like all of this that we're talking about, I do think the enforcement is important but I also think that there going to be a new governor this year So you got to include that in the mix somewhere That a major thing So the new budget comes in I mean the governor budget comes in on October 1 November 1, I mean. Two days later, you've got a new governor. So that's going to be a whole new budget and a whole new process there, and that's going to spread out through all of the departments and everything else. So somewhere there has to be that ongoing. It's great, but this year, the first year, theoretically, the full year would be going into effect. But somewhere in the next three years, you're going to have the exact same thing happen. But now it's going to be two days after that submission. Does that make sense? So I'm just saying somewhere there has to be some kind of connection or mechanism. this is not the year you got to worry about it, but you're going to have to three years from now. So just throwing that out there.
Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1408. All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All opposed? House Bill 1408 is passed. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1409.
House Bill 1409 by Representatives Brown and Sirota, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning the distribution of money collected from the retail marijuana sales tax.
Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1409. To the bill. Thank you. This bill modifies the distribution of marijuana sales, special sales tax revenue. The current law, 96.5% of the special sales tax revenue is retained by the state and distributed to the marijuana tax cash fund, and 3.5% is distributed to local governments. The bill modifies these distributions by eliminating the local distribution and increasing the marijuana tax cash fund distribution by a similar amount, and slightly adjusting the distributions to the general fund, the state public school fund, and the marijuana cash fund. Again, this is another bill that we are running to make sure that we can balance our budget and meet our state obligations, and we ask for an aye vote.
Representative Sirota.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll just add that this has been a challenging budget for us to manage over these last several years as prices for marijuana have gone down and projections continue to be off. Maybe they're getting a little bit closer, but over the last several years, the projections about what will come into the MTCF have been higher than actuals. And so that has presented challenges for us to balance this budget because for many years, members of the General Assembly came up with all sorts of programs to run out of the marijuana tax cash fund. And so each year we have had to bring this fund into balance because it has essentially been underwater. This time we made this change in distribution but are not cutting programs. And the reason this was the choice that we made not to cut programs but instead to cut out this local distribution is because these local governments have the ability to levy their own tax if they so choose And so if they want the revenue they can levy that tax.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1409? Representative DeGraff.
So once again, the contract with the municipalities, the local governments, is violated again. So the balanced budget, the way we balanced budgets this year is unfunded mandates and taking money that was promised this marijuana cash fund because the General Assembly has overtaxed the marijuana tax cash fund and taken more out of it than it delivers because the revenue is down, projections are off probably because why would why would a cartel not just set up shop in Colorado and compete with the government and evade the taxes because now we have legalized marijuana who knows where it came from there's no point in trying to enforce it so of course the revenue is going to go down because anybody that's not charging tax on the marijuana has an automatic advantage. So the entire program, now you have the municipalities, the local governments that have the expenses of the marijuana program, the increased crime, all of the social issues that go along with the legalization of marijuana. They have those expenses, but now you're going to take the 3.5% from them, undoing the deal that was made initially. So I'm not really sure. So unfunded mandates imposed on the municipalities and reneging on deals made with the municipalities. I don't know why anybody would trust this government. I ask for a no vote.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1409? Seeing none, the question... Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I just do want to address the local side of things, and I hope you'll hear me on this. When the state legalized marijuana back, I believe, in either 2011 and 2012, we opened up the market for retailers in this state. And the municipalities, then many of which, and my hometown is one of them, licensed X number of retail marijuana dispensaries in their communities. And guess what? They put their own sales and excise tax on marijuana sales in their local jurisdictions This was after us starting the process for them. To my knowledge, I don't know of a single municipality in the state that has passed any of their excise revenue back to the state. They have kept those dollars, as they should keep those dollars for those markets. So when we reduce their share, they're now gaining the benefit from their own retail dispensaries. and that's the reason I'm the one that suggested that that no longer be in place because they have their own revenue streams for this particular purpose and I stand by that decision. Thank you.
Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1409? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1409. All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Glad to know you're all awake. All opposed, no. House Bill 1409 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1411.
House Bill 1411 by Representatives Brown and Taggart, also Senators Maubel and Kirkmeyer, concerning changes to health insurance benefits for certain low-income individuals who are not eligible for medical assistance due to their immigration status and a connection therewith, making and reducing appropriation.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move House Bill 1411.
To the bill, Representative Taggart.
House Bill 22-1289 established a Medicaid look-alike program called Cover All Colorado. And it mirrors the benefits of our Medicaid program and our CHIP program. This year in the JBC, we discussed this program at length because I think all of us know in this building that the dollars and cents were significantly higher than we expected. this is the most painful bill I've ever been on it tests your value system and it continues to test my value system on one side the primary users of this program are children but we also have pregnant women involved in this program. The children came to our state because of their parents moving here. They probably had very little part of the decision of coming to Colorado. and yet they have the needs of medical and mental health. And I will only speak for you Myself, it's painful to think that we do have to put some controls on this program because it potentially hurts that population. But at the same time, I'm also cognizant that it's a dollar figure that impacts our overall budget. And I want to say as we were working on a compromise, my two colleagues that are here today were incredible to work with. And so too were the senators. And trust me, there were a lot of emotions and there were a lot of tears. and some stalemates for a period of time while we were trying to figure this out. So I will just tell you where the compromise came to, and then I'd like to turn it over to my colleague, who was the individual that I worked with the most on this particular compromise. There are two components within this compromise. First are the benefits and the changes in those benefits. And I'll read them to you. The first one is eliminating long-term services. Some of you may refer to this as HCBS, Home and Community Services, which supports, we will continue to support anybody that's in the long-term services today, many of these young people being IDD. And we will continue to enroll people until January 1st of next year, and then the program caps. in terms of those individuals, those children that are involved. We're capping the dental services on an annual basis at $750, both for pregnant women as well as the children. That's effective July 2026, so this year. we're eliminating behavioral health capitation services however fee for service will remain and for those of you that don't know the difference capitation services we do quite often in behavioral health and it's a daily capitation rate fee for service is for a particular scheduled appointment and a particular program that we're working with youth or with pregnant women. And then last but not least, eliminating the care coordination services that is available through Medicaid on the Affordable Care Collaborative. So that's the benefit side. Most of them don go into effect until January of next year The other component are the cap components And there are two triggers to that. Right now, on the children's side, we have about 21,000 children in this program. I will repeat that. we have just about just under 21,000 children. We have, through our discussions and compromise, we have forecasted that to go up to 25,000. If we go over that projection of 25,000, we cap the program. the second trigger is a little more complicated because you have two components you have the number of individuals the number of children in this particular case and you have the cost associated with children's utilization so what we have done there is we have a projection of that those 25,000 children would consume in utilization about $98 million of costs. And what we've done is broken those down into quarters or are in the process of breaking those down into quarters. takes a little bit of time because you can't just take $98 million and divide it by four for the quarters of the year. You just can't do that because utilization varies by quarter. Some quarters are much higher than other quarters. And so we're comparing it to the seasonality of years previous based on the $98 million and then putting a 5% buffer on the first quarter and on the second quarter. There's really not a need to do it beyond that because of the fact that the major benefit changes. So those are the two triggers that are part of the concept of a cap. And I will just leave you, before I hand it over to my colleague, Representative Brown, who I can't say enough about in terms of working on this, this is painful. But we also at the same, because we're talking about young humans here that we care deeply about. But at the same time, we have a fiscal obligation and trying to find a balance has not been easy. So I ask you for your support in this and I'll turn it over to my colleague.
Representative Brown.
Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. And I want to start off by saying that I am so appreciative to be able to serve with my good colleague from Grand Junction He is a really excellent legislator and an excellent human being And I am honored to be able to serve with him and to be able to work through difficult problems with him, just like I am honored to serve with my other JBC colleagues and our chair. I joke with my aide and with others that I cry about once a session, usually in the well or in committee. And this year is no exception. And this year, this bill has been a place where I have shed a lot of tears. because like my colleague from Grand Junction, I also care very deeply not only about this program, but I care very deeply about the kids that it serves. And the nature of our budget is horrible, and we are faced to make some of the worst decisions that I have ever had to make, certainly as a person and as a legislator. And the way that my colleague described the agreement that we came to is completely accurate and was what we thought was the way that we could bring the spending on this program put some safeguards in place so that spending doesn't continue to increase while maintaining many of the core services of this program. But I will say that it is a disproportionate cut, and it will reduce the spending on an annualized basis of this program by 25%. This program in many ways is a victim of its own success. It provides essential services for kids and pregnant folks who need health care desperately. And I think one of the most challenging parts of this bill is the idea that we are ending services like long-term services and supports for kids. kids who, as my colleague mentioned, were brought here through no fault of their own. I continue to believe that health care is a right and not a privilege, and that just because someone does not draw a federal match on their health care expenditures does not make them less of a human being, and it does not make them any less worthy of health care that they need. Representative Brown, just a moment. Members, please.
This is a really important conversation that we're having. if you're having conversations on the floor, please take them off the floor. If you're having conversations with your hands, take them off the floor.
All right Representative Brown go ahead Thank you But instead of being able to adhere to that human right we are instead faced with the decision of rationing based on the scarcity of our budget. And so we have come to this agreement, an incredibly difficult and horrible decision, decision one of many that we have to make this year and we ask for your support on this bill
is there any further discussion representative garcia
Thank you, Madam Chair. Okay, this is, I think, first I want to just start with thanking and offering my profound thanks and gratitude to the members of JBC for all of their work. And while we are on an orbital and we're not necessarily talking about the budget, all of this is connected. And having to bring orbitals is another tool in order to help balance the budget. And so my initial comments are really just around the entirety of the situation that has brought us here and just the recognition that all of what we have discussed so far until now and what we will continue discussing after this comes with real heartache and real pain with all of the cuts that we have to make to different groups and different services. And that is not easy. And to be on the JBC and to have to agree to these agreements and to have to make these arrangements and have to say, yes, we will cut A and we will cut B and we will cut C and we will move C to D is not easy. And I don't want to belittle or I don't want to minimize the incredible work and the intense amount of work that these members have had to do for several many months to get to this point. I also want to acknowledge that we are a body of 65 members. And we are a body of 65 members that has an obligation to understand and work to get a balanced budget through because it is our constitutional duty. but that does not make us a rubber stamp body. Any one of us in this chamber can also come up with creative ideas of how to maybe rethink a certain cut that has been presented. Any one of us can evaluate different line items, different buckets that exist in our budget, and offer alternatives to make the pain just a little bit less. Cover All Coloradans covers, as we heard, it covers kids and it covers pregnant people. for every dollar that we spend on children in this state for their health outcomes results in $4 savings for in the future because we are preventing negative health outcomes. We are seeing cost savings from hospitalizations and emergency visits that do not come to pass. Medicaid increases a child's likelihood to attend and complete college, increase their future earnings and future state and federal tax contributions. These are positive outcomes that benefit Colorado as a whole. And if you include not only the cost savings to the government, but the benefits to the child themselves, then each $1 spent generates at least $12.66, sense, including the value of lives saved and the value of children's higher future after-tax income. Cover All Coloradans is a program that saves lives. For Colorado residents who lack documentation, this program is a cost savings. Just a minute, Representative Garcia.
Members, if you were in the corner and you're chatting hard, thank you. Go ahead, Representative Garcia.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Cover All Coloradans does result in a cost savings for Colorado in the future. I know that every single person in this room understands that when you don't have people covered by insurance, it increases the cost of emergency care. That is an undisputable fact. one of the agreements that you heard by the good representative from Mesa was to cap cover all Coloradans the cap itself challenges the intention and the original intention of Cover All Coloradans. And while I understand that the point of this is to be able to better budget in the future by saying once we reach $25,000, then no more can be enrolled, it actually comes with additional administrative burden. What wasn't discussed, questions that weren't asked to HICPF at the time when there were opportunity for these questions was how would you actually implement this? Why should that have been asked? It's because they have said that they don't know how they would implement this. If we cap this program before the need even exists, we are eliminating the fact that this is meant to be a Colorado type of Medicaid. We don't have a cap on Medicaid. We are reducing the benefits that are already coming to this program. But we are not at a position right now where we need to put this cap And so with that Madam Chair I move L001 and ask that it be displayed
That's a proper motion. Give us just a moment to get it displayed.
Go ahead, Representative Garcia. Thank you, Madam Chair. L-001 is an amendment that leads to absolutely zero increase in appropriations. There's no cost to this amendment if passed. And what it does is it makes a simple change to eliminate the cap in 1411. And I ask for an aye vote.
Representative Velasco. Representative Velasco.
Thank you so much, Madam Chair. And I agree with a lot of the points that were shared. And also thank the JVC for all their work that they have been doing since November of last year. and know that these are impossible decisions that they made to present a balanced budget to us. And I want to talk about why safety nets are vital for Colorado, because they help us reduce poverty and we improve children's well-being. These programs support economic stability, assist residents through temporary hardship, and prevent deeper societal issues. They also act as automated stabilizers during economic downturns. Safety nets are also crucial for alleviating poverty and inequality, assisting families to meet basic needs like improved health and welfare. Safety nets also provide essential support during recessions. They protect individuals from personal financial ruin, prevent wider economic hardship during personal crisis, and a strong social safety net promotes societal stability, which can lead to reduced crime rates. So we know that when Colorado has strong safety nets, that's good for everyone that lives here. And I urge, I just vote on this amendment. because the orbital 1411 represents a substantial shift away from our state's commitment to health equity and the intent and design of the Cover All Coloradans program, including an enrollment and spending cap on health care access for kids that will only harm the community without saving the state any money. Two years of investment in outreach and trust building will be undermined. Enrolled children will delay or avoid care, skipping vaccines, deferring treatment for conditions like diabetes until they become emergencies, driving up costs and public health risks. HCPF hasn't determined how a spending cap would function for children already enrolled or how to communicate spending or enrollment limits multilingually to counties providers and enrollees This comes as HCPF is already under intense pressure from federally mandated administrative change adding complexity that increases the risk of errors and unintended costs. So we urge a yes vote on this amendment.
Is there any further discussion? Representative DeGraff.
Actually, Representative Garcia.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
I don't mean to get in your way of speaking against the amendment. You can do that in just a sec. I actually want to make everyone's lives easier, and I withdraw this amendment. Yay.
No?
Okay. And move. And instead, I would like to move L002.
Okay, at the sponsor's request, Amendment L-001 has been withdrawn, and Amendment L-002 has been properly moved. This is a multi-page amendment that was circulated on your desk on April 8th at 4.26 p.m. Representative Garcia.
Thank you, Madam Chair. So I'm just going to go ahead and explain L-002. And, um, initially I was bringing, um, these two amendments separately and I want to acknowledge and recognize that, um, some of you support the amendment to lift the cap and some of you support the amendment that this one also includes, which is to restore the dental benefits. this amendment combines the two, and I want to be clear that this is not an intention of saying, well, if you're supporting one, you have to support two. The reason why I'm bringing this amendment is ultimately because, just to be open and transparent, through the vote count on the floor, we have secured enough votes for both these amendments to pass. If I were to ask our staff to try and sever this amendment into the two separate pieces, we would have to take up time and filibuster, which I imagine my good colleague over here would be fine in helping us out with. But I'd rather us just be able to move forward. So what this amendment is doing, it is restoring the dental benefit as well that we heard was another agreement. initially what Coverall Coloradans had was $1,000 for benefits for children it was reduced to $7.50 that is a 25% cut while not every child needs $1,000 those who do would not actually have it how would we pay for this everyone asks that's a very good question Now listen closely, folks, because I'm going to talk about our prison system. As you know, we have a line item in our budget that has yet to be approved that is allocating million to an increase of 18 to the per diem to private prisons Our private prisons generally get a 2 to 3 increase of per diem when they renew their contracts Not an 18% increase. if we were to take 7 million dollars less than to help cover this cost the private prisons will still benefit from 4 million dollars which is a 5% increase in per diem which is still higher than the traditional amount that they would get which is 2-3% we are still giving these private prisons more than what they get nationally, more than what we give them historically. They will still see a profit. I want to acknowledge and recognize again, and I'm going to go and make rounds while my colleagues come
and share their support for this amendment, but I want to acknowledge that I know that some people in this room only support one half of this amendment. I understand that. But I also want to be clear in saying thank you to all of you that we have been able to generate the support for both of these to pass. I ask for your trust. I ask for your support. Please support this amendment. Representative Zocay.
thank you madam chair and let me just start by saying that i understand that jbc has not been faced with any easy decisions here and that i understand that much of what has been before us is not a reflection of the values of our JBC members, but rather a reflection of the reality of a struggling economy, Tabor, and HR1. And I so appreciate the hard work that has gone into presenting us with a balanced budget. And when I say that we need to do everything in our power to avoid targeted cuts to health care for children and pregnant people, specifically when we're talking about individuals who are excluded from other health care coverage, that I recognize that that is also what our JBC members have been working painstakingly to accomplish. And I want to express gratitude for my good colleague from Adams County for presenting us with another option to consider. I spoke yesterday to advocates who told me about their work history in trying to help kids get access to services and how they would see kids who qualified in every way for essential services but then were unable to have access due to their immigration status. And they told me how they saw firsthand these kids grow up and saw them slip through the cracks and struggle with health needs into adulthood. And as we have finally started to give those kids a chance, we are being faced with having to pull that back. I think my colleagues did an excellent job discussing how we should not have a spending cap. I want to focus in on the dental care portion of this amendment. As a mom with three kids, I know firsthand that dental care is very expensive, and those kids need to brush better. A single cavity can cost hundreds of dollars. And left unchecked, those cavities turn into infections and cost much, much more. Putting aside even the financial implications of that, it causes pain. Kids can't focus in school. They don't get good sleep. and I think it's important for us to be reminded that dental care is essential health care. In fact, lack of dental care is the number one reason for missed school days. We lose 51 million school hours annually due to tooth decay, pain, and related oral health problems in kids. And lack of dental care can also lead to tragic outcomes. So I want to share the story of DeMonte Driver, a 12-year-old boy who was unable to get care for his toothache. What he needed was an $80 tooth extraction, and his mom was uninsured and unable to pay for that. bacteria from the abscess in his tooth spread to his brain and following six weeks in the hospital and multiple surgeries Damonte passed away and I know that all of us want to prevent those outcomes and what we're faced with is a very difficult budget environment But it's not just my values and my moral compass that bring me down here today. It's also the fact that lack of this care leads to higher long-term costs and strain on our systems. Having kids in the emergency room is much more costly than investing in prevention. The cost of an emergency department visit for dental problems is 18 times more than the dental visit. And in 2019 in Colorado, the total cost for emergency department visits for non-treated dental care was $68 million, and that is more than two times the national average. This amendment gives us a path forward. We can shift resources away from private prisons and mass incarceration and towards kids and healthier communities. The DOC budget keeps growing year over year on the backs of our kids despite their record of mismanagement. And shifting resources to investing in kids' health helps reduce future incarceration. There is a strong connection between lack of health care and greater criminal history, and that is compounded by poverty. The shift in resources reflected in this amendment keeps kids in school and leads to better outcomes And so I here to ask for a yes vote on this amendment to make it less likely that kids end up caught up in the criminal justice system I'm asking for a yes vote to allow us to invest in stability and support for our kids. And I'm asking for a yes vote for DeMonte Driver and to make sure that all kids get the essential dental care that they need.
Representative Luck.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. My comments at this present moment are going to be brief, and they are going to be in response to the amendment sponsor, the first one that spoke. There was a mention of filibustering and the idea of assisting with opportunities, you know, things that you were trying to do as a result of filibustering on our side. And I just want to, for the record, note that filibustering, the connotation of that is often time-wasting and that we would much prefer to be considered engaging in principled discourse and actually deliberative processes, not time-wasting. Taking time, not wasting time. Just for the record.
Is there any further discussion on Amendment L2? Seeing none, the question before us is the passage of Amendment L2.
All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say no. No.
The ayes have it. Amendment L2 passes. to the bill. Is there any further discussion on amendment? Is there any further discussion on House Bill 1411? Seeing none. The question before us is do we want to hear Rep Bradley? All those in favor say just kidding. Rep Bradley, your turn. I was going to call you a name but people get in trouble for that.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to say thank you to the JBC as well. I hear your hearts. I hear where you're coming from. I understand that this was a hard one for you, but my question is we already have 21,000 children in this program. why we're allowing another 4,000 to bring the outreach to 25,000. And we do have caps on other things. We have provider rates being cut. We have soft care caps being cut. And I thought I would read a couple stories, too, since we're reading stories. Hi, my son Cody is 5 years old, and he has profound autism. He is nonverbal and requires constant supervision and one-on-one support. He is a joy boy, and he heavily utilizes Medicaid services and waivers in order to learn skills and work on gaining as much independence as possible. I am writing to strongly urge you to protect Medicaid waiver services in Colorado. These services, such as HCBS, CES, SLS, are not just benefits. They are life-sustaining supports that allow seniors and people with disabilities to live in their own homes and engage with their communities rather than being forced into institutions. Any attempt to cut funding, implement restrictive work requirements, or place caps on these waivers will have disastrous consequences for thousands of Coloradans What has impacted us most thus far are the age calculators which strip kids under the age of six of virtually all caregiving hours Many families with children with more severe disabilities are impacted by the 56-hour cap, limiting their ability to care for their children. Yes.
Just to be clear, we are on House Bill 1411. Are your comments concerning that bill?
Yes. Yes, we were talking about, I think, robbing Peter to pay Paul. We were talking about caps, and we're talking about adding in more services, but there are other services being cut. And when we have to add services for others, that means other people can't get the services that they then need. We're talking about a program that was meant to only be $26 to $30 million originally and is now four times bigger. It is now $100 million. and with a service or a program like that that has gone from, it's an original intent from $26 million to $100 million with this bill. With this bill, it's $100 million. So I don't know if we don't cap it where the previous representatives came up and said if we don't cap it, that it's not going to cost the state any more money because it will. The projection was $130 million without this orbital bill. So it would have been another $30 million. And so when we're talking about kids don't deserve this, none of us think kids deserve this. But providers' kids don't deserve it, and prison guards' kids don't deserve it. We're giving them a 1% compensation increase. Employee compensation increases aren't even increasing with the state of inflation. We're one of the fourth highest places to live. So when we come up here compassionately talking about kids, let's talk about all the kids in our state. Let's talk about the kids whose parents have to work three jobs just to live in this state, whose parents can't walk them to school. Let's talk about all the kids. Because there's plenty of kids whose parents are working a ton of jobs to just keep up with inflation and the price of groceries in the state. While we continue to grow programs like this, that were supposed to be only $26 million, and now have grown to, without this bill, $130 million. And with this amendment that just passed, I don't even know if we know how much it's going to cost. I think you guys are going to have to go back to the drawing board. So when we come up here with stories about abscesses. There are other stories of kids in wheelchairs whose parents are at a cap, are going to get capped next July at 56 hours to take care of their children. So I'm asking you guys to think about these policies we're passing in this building because you're talking about dental care when there's not going to be providers accepting Medicaid and cover all Colorado because we can't afford to keep the lights on in our home. I think you think that all PTs and OTs and speech-language pathologists and nurses live in million-dollar homes. We don't. We're paying property taxes. We're treating patients often for free because we have that empathy as well. But you can't keep legislating this on to the providers and then cut our rates and then say why aren you providing for the state of Colorado kids And then you can tell the IDD community not to be upset with you when you capping their caregiving hours So I get the empathy, but you can't tell the people of Colorado this is supposed to be a $30 million program and grow it to $130 million and not expect us to wonder why. We're kicking the can again. Medicare's growing at 8.8%. It's unsustainable. And someone has to bend. And it's the providers, the very people that you want to take care of the people. And we've had enough. We're tired of being the punching bag of the state. Work through COVID. Mask up five different times. Take experimental vaccines. Close down your shops. Close down your clinics. Jump through this hoop. Jump through that hoop. That's still not enough. Jump through another hoop. Oh, you made it through that. Now we're going to cut your rates so that you can barely afford to live in the fourth highest state. It's still not enough. We're going to give to this group of people, and we're still going to cut from you. We're still going to cut from your pool. And if that's not enough, we're going to cut your reimbursement rates too. Because that's what we get to decide in this body. And we still want you to charge less and provide the best care that you can. And that's not going to happen. We're going to quit going into the homes. We're going to start double booking and triple booking. You're going to get worse care. And guess what? The emergency rooms are going to be full because they're going to use them for primary care. And you have solved no problems. You have grown the budget more, and you have solved nothing for the people of Colorado except cutting services to the IDD community and provider rates. And grown a program that you promised would only be $30 million. We take from some. We take from the reserve. We take from providers. and we continue to grow, grow, grow. We take from the unclaimed property trust fund. We take from Proposition 123. The people see past it. They're going to see past this too.
Representative DeGraff.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. All right. So let's start. Filibustering. Wasting time. So the citizens of Colorado who have been talking today, the majority party considers educating you on what's in the budget to be a waste of time. Why? Because it's a foregone conclusion. They're going to spend more money, more taxes, more fees, more debt. Foregone conclusion. They consider that a waste of time to inform you what's in the budget, our primary constitutional duty. So let's talk about this program. Cover All Coloradans is a Colorado state initiative that provides health care coverage modeled after Medicare and child health plans, children typically 18 or 19, and pregnant postpartum females who meet income eligibility but are ineligible for federal Medicaid due to what? Due to immigration status. Due to immigration status. Now, how is that immigration status? Because we're going to look at the numbers, and I always find it interesting that every morning that I come to work, I see one or two Los Limousines from El Paso, Texas. and they get off at exit 210A and they get to the top of the ramp and hang a left. I'm not sure why they don't go to the bus stop, but it looks like they're heading to the stadium. And I guess there must be like spring training or all year long at the stadium because that's the direction the buses go. And the buses are getting nicer and nicer. I've noticed that the buses I've seen lately are definitely an upgrade. not sure maybe there's like a soccer camp going on at the football at the football stadium why two buses every day i don't know but let's look at this when the enabling the legislation house bill 22-1289 passed in 12 2022 nonpartisan fiscal analysis projected modest costs based on expected enrollment of roughly 3,600 to 3,700 people, approximately $14.7 million from the state general fund for fiscal year 25 to 26. Some earlier estimates referenced around $27 million in the general fund. So it was considered wafer thin in a budget of $46 billion, probably $40 billion at that point. Due to much higher than expected enrollment, maybe something to do with those buses, maybe something to do with the world's largest human trafficking enterprise ever, shipping in permanently exploitable and expendable undocumented voters into our system, not compassion. When you import somebody and you take away their documentation and you provide no documentation, what you've created is a permanently exploitable and expendable individual. Representative DeGraff.
Yeah. Let's just clarify. We are on House Bill 1411 related changes to the Cover All Coloradans program. Can you help me understand where you're going with this? Absolutely.
I'm talking about the cover. I'm talking about the program. itself. I'm talking to the citizens of Colorado who don't understand what the coverall Coloradans means because some of them think that it means Coloradans, like people who are in Colorado and with a legal status. And it specifically does not. It is specifically for individuals that lack legal status. Getting Garcia'd again. I'm going to be here a while. So will I. Good. Due to much higher than expected enrollment, now over 24,000 to 30,000 people, mostly children. And let's level set. These children are people. They do have rights. I have no issues with that. They do have rights. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And we're going to talk about that because that was talked about by the sponsor. For the current fiscal year of 26, the state now expects to spend about $104.5 million, with a total program cost around million in one round one reporting period This represents roughly 611 overrun So I not really sure what a cap does because a cap I mean loosely put on there expectation of $14.7 million, was exceeded by 611%. For the upcoming 26-27, projections without changes were around $127.4 million and growing. Funding comes primarily from the state's general fund. with some federal matching prenatal labor delivery service under CHIP authority. The program has no initial enrollment cap and uses state funds to cover populations excluded. So at one time, we only covered legal citizens, and now we're covering those that lack immigration status. Recent budget actions, as of April 2026, Colorado lawmakers are addressing the $1.5 billion budget shortfall. It's a party. Come on up. Broader Medicaid rates. Who's all joining us? Okay, cool. These changes aim to control costs. So as a second-generation American, one of the things is like, why do we have these costs? Because typically what's required of a legal immigrant, somebody that is here legally, is to have a sponsor. You're going to have a sponsor, and you're going to have, and you are not going to become a burden on society. And I noticed that I think there's somewhere around 40 million. So 40 million, I think that's what was imported. I think that's what was trafficked by the Biden administration. And there's roughly, if we split this up, 150 million. so all you need is three of the no one is illegal to sponsor these individuals, and we're covered. So income asset, self-sufficiency, those things are expected. Now, as a second-generation American, I can appreciate that. I appreciate that. Those were the requirements of my grandparents. I don't resent that. So let's level set a little bit. Health care, let's talk about rights. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. These are the certain self-evident, creator, endowed rights. And these are also the rights of the individuals that are here, documented or undocumented. Now, it is their governments, the government of those individuals, who are responsible for securing those rights. Now we have a special affinity for those individuals who were cartelled into the country. Yet we disregard those who were not cartelled into the country. We consider that we have a moral obligation to those that were cartelled into the country, but we don have a moral obligation to those that remained into the country and when a country was liberated recently that was considered a horrific offense even though it really it really an extent of this immigration policy because these are individuals that need to be that need to be saved from their socialist countries look at them they're socialist totalitarians
Representative Graff, I've given you a lot of leeway, but can we get back to the purpose of 1411, which is changes to the Cover Colorado or changes to the Cover All Coloradans program?
Yes, absolutely, Mr. Chair. Because one of the things that was brought up, and these are some things that have to be level set. We are talking about persons, and they do have rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. but before you get all self, those rights also belong to the pre-born who you mechanically dismember by the hundreds of thousands. Health care, here's what health care, notice something about those rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, they cost you nothing. I am responsible to recognize your rights and not violate your rights, not violate your life, not violate your liberty, not violate your pursuit of happiness. The expectation is subsequently that you will not violate my life, my liberty, or my pursuit of happiness. What is the exchange? What is the monetary exchange in that? The monetary exchange is zero. When you say something like health care is a right, you have introduced the right to enslave another person. You have introduced the right to enslave another person. You have introduced the right to compel the labor of another person to provide something that you want. This is the politics of legal plunder. If you want to read some excellent contemporary commentary on socialism, you read Bastiat. It's from 1850. And it's contemporary because nothing has changed. So let's level set. This is not charity. This program is not charity. This program is theft. Charity is voluntary. Taxation is compulsory. Taxation is extracted at the barrel of a gun. If you don't believe it, don't pay it. Eventually somebody comes with a gun to take your taxes. Or your life. So no matter how charitable you feel, that feeling is something you bought with money you took from somebody else's pocket. You took, you stole from somebody else's pocket. That is theft. This program is theft. So no matter how weepy you get over this program, it is theft. I don't care how emotional you get over taking other people's money and giving it to somebody else that you feel is more inclined to it, that you feel good about that and you get weepy, it is theft. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, those are rights. To recognize those rights, to honor those rights in another, do not cost you a cent. Health care, forcing somebody else to provide health care is compelled labor. Compelled labor is slavery. So no, there is no moral compass that goes along with this program. The moral compass is broken The magnet is off it just going wherever you want it to go So no matter how charitable you feel no matter how many tears you weep it is not charity Again, we have 300 million people, 150 million. We could say if we have a split society, you only need three to every one to sponsor and solve this problem. Support those individuals. You brought them into the country. Support them. Don't force them on the taxpayers of Colorado. They can't afford this anymore. And what did we do? This is the program that I've been talking about, that you capped a $14.7 million program at $95 million after blowing past that and going to $127 million. And then you say it's a right because that makes you feel good, because you don't have a clue what rights are. Kids were shipped into this country to feed this program. Over 300,000 children were trafficked into the country under these programs. Colorado Health, facilitated by this Colorado for All. They were shipped off to addresses on the other end that were sharpied onto their arms. Fortunately, only 10%, they estimate, were sent into sexually abusive homes. 30,000.
Don't feel morally superior, you trafficked children. Representative DeGraff.
Yes. Trafficking has nothing to do with House Bill 1411. Please contain your comments to House Bill 1411.
1411 is the Cover All Coloradans program, correct?
It is.
Okay. Okay. The Cover All Coloradans program is about covering those children who were trafficked into Colorado. And I get it. They are innocent actors in this. They are innocent actors. They are exploited. Their families were exploited. They were carteled in and exploited. They are heavily exploited. Permanently exploitable and expendable. Disappearable. I agree that HCPF does not know how, I can't even imagine how they would. How is HCPF going to implement a cap? I think the cap is now gone. We have caps on everything of spending on citizens, but citizens in this General Assembly, the citizens, the tax-paying citizens, are not a priority in this General Assembly. I get it. Hickpuff doesn't know how to implement a cap, because how would they? Especially if there's busloads arriving every day. I don't know. We have citizens that are being denied services. They're capped. How is the cap going to work on this? I have no idea. When this program was implemented and expected and promised to cost only $14.7 million, nobody really saw the governor participate in the largest human trafficking organization in history. And so now we have to make tough decisions, and we've made tough decisions this entire day of cutting off the services that the citizens, the taxpaying widgets of Colorado, and then we get to the end of the day... and then with enough tears and enough feelings of compassion, compassion at the cost of others is not charity. It is still theft. So again, health care is not a right. This program is not a right. Health care is not a right. It is compelled labor of somebody else because it makes you feel good. Compelled labor is slavery. You're imposing compelled labor on Coloradans. It's not surprising. Charity is voluntary. Taxation is not voluntary. This is not charity. So right off the bat, I reject the crocodile tears. I reject the idea that this is part of a moral compass, except that the moral compass is completely broken because it does impose slave labor. It does impose compelled labor. But I will recognize that these individuals are exploited. they have been cartelled in and they are being used and I do not appreciate I abhor the way these individuals have been used cartelled in relegated to the shadows
Representative DeGraff
I'm still talking about the bill
it's unclear to me how you are because we are talking about changes to health care coverage not about criminal activity in other contexts.
We're talking about changes to the health care coverage and capping a program that covers trafficked individuals at $95 million. And I'm saying I don't know how that's going to happen because we don't really know how many are here. And the importation is still ongoing. And that if we're going to talk about this program, yes, I have compassion for these individuals. I think I have legitimate compassion for these individuals. But this program was laid out by the sponsors as a means of compassion, of moral superiority, and I reject. And I'm laying out the case because there are people that are going to vote against this, and so why would you vote against this? I'm not sure how you vote. Because this program, yes, we need to cap it. but this is one of those things in this budget that is a self-imposed injury on the state of Colorado the people that they imported the trafficked individuals, they're good people I don't deny it, probably most of them I mean the ones that are not here committing crimes so we need to limit these programs but I thought it was good we needed to at least talk about what this program was and we need to talk about the mentality that lies behind it because it is not compassion it is not charity
it is not it is not right any further discussion on House Bill 1411 Representative Luck
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Earlier today, an amendment was passed on this bill, as we know, that eliminated the cap on spending vis-a-vis dental and also eliminated the cap on how many children could be enrolled, which leaves me wondering with how this then interfaces with the long bill. We're being told that there is no additional funds that are being requested. But the way that these programs work, as we have seen, is that if you open an entitlement program and you don't cap the enrollees or you don't cap the amount that can be spent, then as more enrollees come than your budget contemplated, you are in a deficit, which is why year over year this program has ballooned in cost. If we harken back to the supplementals that we did, I believe that the legislature in the 2025-2026 long bill allocated something like $31 million to this program, and then during supplementals allocated another $22 million or thereabouts for a total of $53 million, which means that last April this legislature thought that this program was only going to cost half about of what it actually ended up costing as of the supplementals. But if you note, we're additionally adding $68 million to HICPF. now yes from between when we did supplementals and what we expect will need to be available by the end of the fiscal year now i do not have the numbers specifically in front of me as to how much of that 68 million dollars that has been given to hick puff in the 2627 long bill to account for the costs in the 25-26 fiscal year as relates to this program. But even if it's a million or two or three, it shows that there will be a demand on this budget as a result of the changes to this particular bill. We can't say that it won't have a fiscal impact. We can say we intend to spend $95 million and no more than that. But if more kids come in, or if the kids who come in have higher medical costs than we expected, we will be responsible for covering those payments. And so that goes back then to my initial question how does this likely impact on the budget No doubt this bill is a reflection of hard negotiation with JBC members and others stakeholders and so presumably there were forecasts and projections of what this program would cost in the event these caps were not placed. And so what then will those numbers be? It almost requires a new fiscal note to be drawn up to see what is this program now going to cost if it is not capped. Do we have any indication as to that? Prior speakers have noted that to give more to this program means that we will have to take more from other programs. And so what are those programs going to be? We have a constitutional obligation to pass a balanced budget based off of reasonable projections. With this change, does that then require amendments and new looks at the long bill? because to knowingly pass the bill with an expectation that this particular program is going to increase in cost won't put us into compliance. So what can we expect? If this program was only created a couple of years ago and again, it has grown exponentially year over year. What will this next year bring? Those are questions I lay before the JBC and before this body as a result of that amendment that was passed. Thank you for any and all insight.
Any further discussion on House Bill 1411? Representative Brooks.
Chair, thank you. At the beginning of this conversation, I walked over to JBC and told them that sincerely that I appreciated their concerns and the difficulty navigating around this particular orbital. I know that irrespective of political beliefs, political leanings, deep-seated foundational beliefs, that there is a difficulty within this topic that just strikes straight to the core of who we are. You know, just as hopefully loving humans, right? I also said that I would not overly politicize the issue because, honestly, I don't know that it's necessary, that it's helpful. It's easy to overly politicize. For me, I think it really kind of comes down more to the simple math that we've spent a bit of time over the last couple of days here looking for ways of being able to find some efficiencies to trim here or perhaps cut there that I would have felt much more comfortable if over the past two days the conversations that we having revolved around hey can we pull here with the intent of understanding that the hole we filling is to be able to honor the Joint Budget Committee's recommendation for the cap on this program. That there is a figure, and it is an unknown figure, honestly, because we don't, you know, The original intent of this program was much smaller, exponentially smaller than where we're at right now. So to try to project what that cost savings is going to be in the future is really an exercise in futility because we simply do not know. This has been explosive and exponential in expansion. We do not know what this is going to look like in as little as two years, let alone five, ten. but removing that cap in the middle of a very difficult budget time that we can very reasonably expect to continue, I don't honestly know. It feels like we're a little tone deaf, not to the humanity, not to the program, but to the math. Again, there have been several instances over the last couple of days that depending on the level of engagement you've had with this process, there are alarm bells that should be sounding, right? Just blaring in your head that we are dangerously close to the edge of the cliff, teetering financially, whether we're taking money from an unclaimed property tax fund or whether we're taking money from the reserve, that these are indicators that we're at a financial crisis if it wasn't enough already to enter into this budget season about $1.5 billion upside down. Removing the cap, which is an amendment that has passed, is now pulling the lid off of a program that we don't know where it's going to go. We don't know where it's going to go because we didn't know even just a couple of years ago that it would be where it is right now. If we would have spent time over the last couple of days saying let's carve out here, let's trim back there so we have the ability to have a more mathematically sound conversation around this. I still don't know how enthused I would be, but at least I would feel a little bit more fiscally certain that we have addressed issues from a true mathematical standpoint. What we are doing right now is continuing to say it's important for us to fund things that we emotionally feel very tied to. fine, but show me the money, right? Show me where that money is going to come from. If we've got the emotional tie to it, okay. I mean, not okay from my political standpoint, but goodness gracious, how are we going to pay for it? And to say that we're going to pull the lid off of a cap on a program that has already demonstrated to be, have a voracious financial appetite, if not an outright destructive behavior, on our health. The health care budget is irresponsible. It's irresponsible, despite how good it makes us feel. It rises to a level of deep concern for me, not just disappointment in the body and in its lack of engagement on an even basic level when it comes to helping Joint Budget Committee find a way through this mess, because the mess is going to continue. And when we've pulled the lid off of, when we've let this thing out of its cage even more, it's going to exponentially grow. And it's going to exponentially grow beyond a point where we know anything about. It's dangerous. it's reckless it's fiscally irresponsible and I cannot support it I don't believe that we any of us should support it thank you
seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1411 the question before us is the passage of House Bill 1411 as amended, all those in favor say aye All those opposed, say no. House Bill 1411 passes. Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1412.
House Bill 1412 by Representatives Sirota and Taggart, also Senators Bridges and Kirkmeyer, concerning authorizing the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to use statistical sampling and extrapolation to recover overpayments to providers for certain Medicaid services and a connection with reducing appropriation.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1412.
That's proper motion to the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This bill is a bill to allow HICPF to use statistical sampling and extrapolation in order to recover overpayments from claims for services provided since October of...
of, actually I think that date is wrong, based upon dates identified in an OIG audit of the state's ABA therapy program or reimbursements rather. It also allows for audits on non-emergency medical transportation providers as well. And what the bill is doing, we funded a number of people, or we funded within the long bill funding to do individual audits of providers who have been receiving or paid claims for things like pediatric behavioral therapy and also for non-emergency medical transportation services. This claim-by-claim audit will be done, and then with the results of that audit, this bill allows the department to use extrapolation if there is found to be a statistically significant sample of overpayment claims or fraud and abuse, that they are able to use extrapolation to the entirety of the claims for the claim period outlined in the bill We have seen significant abuse of these services by certain providers in this state There has been a tremendous amount of activity going on, in particular within pediatric behavioral therapy. And it's not just unique to Colorado, but instead, actually, this is a national trend. it is a national problem. The OIG has conducted audits in varying states because, as I said again, it's not just local to Colorado, but this is happening across the country. And so what we are doing, and now we have been, we the state have been fined, I believe about $40 million and required to make those, that payment to the federal government. And so So in order to reclaim some of those overpayments, we will be doing the case-by-case auditing and then giving the department the ability to use extrapolation on those audits to recover these overpayments so that the state is not footing the entire bill for these overpayments. And so this is a really important bill to recapture millions and millions of dollars worth of overpayments due to the fraud, waste, and abuse that has occurred within these programs. And so crucially, we ask for an aye vote. And I do have an amendment, but I will allow my co-prime to make some remarks if he wishes. Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think it's important also to note in this particular bill that we put two components in that monitor this extrapolation methodology for the potential of overpayment. First, we put some very strict guidelines of how the extrapolation is to be initiated, so to speak. There are very distinct benchmarks, so to speak, before we just go putting a statistical methodology on this audit. And secondly, we have asked our audit department to audit the process in addition to a third-party audit firm to make absolutely certain that those guidelines are being followed and that we are doing the very best to isolate providers that are abusing and respect the providers that are doing exactly as we have asked. So I would ask your support on this bill.
Representative Sirota. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have one amendment here. I move L-001 to House Bill 1412.
That is a proper motion. Amendment 1 has been displayed. Representative Sroda.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. upon review of some of the language, it's been a bit of a frenzy to get this bill introduced and a lot of back and forth. But I think one word that has been identified is the word alleged And so what we are doing is striking it from the bill because that term does carry some legal implications and there not a thing of an alleged overpayment There either are overpayments or there are not in this program, so I ask for an aye vote on L-001.
Seeing no further discussion on Amendment L-1, the question before us is the passage of Amendment L-1. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The ayes have it. Amendment L1 passes. To the bill. Representative Hartzook.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and many thanks to the sponsors. A couple of questions. I've got one of the facilities in my district that I actually toured, and some questions that were brought up or concerns. A couple things. the OIG report showed 93% deficiencies two they were talking about gaps in state guidance and three with the resignation here at HICPF their position is they don't get guidance but now we want to claw the money back and they're kind of going not our fault how is this and why is this happening so if you could address some of those that would be great thank you
Representative Sirota Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think there were things identified in the audit, and the state will have to address them individually. But the audit did find that there were multiple overpayments that were made. And to be sure, there are some providers who have been doing everything that they are supposed to do, and I believe those providers won't end up subject to these overpayment requirements because they weren't made because they actually did provide the correct documentation. They weren't doing the overbilling for things like billing during nap time and things like that, which is what has gone on. And so we really have to get this under control, and that does mean addressing point by point things that were pointed out in the audit. And I do believe the department is addressing that, but part of it is to address the overpayments. And so we are doing one piece of that in this bill.
Seeing no further discussion on House Bill 1412 The question before us is the passage of House Bill 1412 as amended All those in favor say aye Aye All opposed say no The ayes have it House Bill 1412 passes Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of House Bill 1413
House Bill 1413 by Representatives Sorota and Brown Also Senators and Mobline Bridges Concerning leave time allowed to certain public servants Representative Sorota
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is maybe another one of our few feel-good bills that we have. Representative Sirota, apologies. Could you please move the bill?
Yes. I move House Bill 1413.
To the bill, Representative Sirota. I will just share that it is a simple bill. It is doing two things. It is striking the restriction in statute that allows an employee of the state to earn no more than 10 days of sick leave per fiscal year. It doesn't grant state employees any more sick days per year. That's still up to departments and bargaining agreement, but it does lift that statutory restriction if that is something that folks want to discuss in the future. It also extends the amount of annual military leave that public employees are able to take The federal government changed the allowance to four weeks back in the fall and so we are going to match that in the state and allow public employees. We are striking the equivalent of three weeks in statute and replacing that with four weeks so that folks who are serving either in the Guard or the Reserves, if they are called up, are able to take four weeks of leave a year without being subject to lost pay and the like.
Representative Brown. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I want to thank my colleague, the chair of the JBC, for working on this bill with me. I think this bill is a really important bill in a year when we are not able to do an across-the-board pay increase. This gives us a little bit more flexibility on some of the benefits that we can offer to our employees. And I think it's, I appreciate being able to work with our state workers on this particular provision. And I ask for an aye vote.
See, is there any further discussion on House Bill 1413? Seeing none, the question before us is passive. House Bill 1413. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. The ayes have it. House Bill 1413 passes. Madam Majority Leader.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Pursuant to House Rule 27B, I move to suspend the reading of the bill again in order to lay the bill over to 6.30 p.m. today, April 9th, at which point the reading will begin.
members for your information this is a non-debatable motion the question before us is whether to suspend the reading of house bill 26 14 10 at a length again in order to lay the bill over till 6 30 p.m today april 9th all those in favor say aye aye all those post say no the ayes have it the motion passes Madam Majority Leader
Mr. Chair, move to lay over House Bill 1410 to 630 p.m. today
Seem no objection, House Bill 261410 will be laid over until 630 p.m. today Madam Majority Leader
Thank you, Mr. Chair, move the committee rise and report
You have heard the motion, is there any objection? Seeing none, the committee will rise and report. Thank you. Thank you. . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you.
The House will come back to order. Mr. Schiebel, please read the report of the Committee of the Whole.
Madam Speaker, your Committee of the Whole begs leave to report as under consideration. The following attached bills being the second reen that open makes the following recommendations are on. House Bills 1357 is amended, 1358, 1359, 1360, 1361, 1362, 1363, 1364 is amended, 1366, 1367, 1368, 1369, 1370, 1371 as amended, 1372, 1373, 1374 as amended, 1375, 1376, 1377, 1378 as amended, 1379, 1380 as amended, 1381, 1382, 1383, 1384, 1385, 1386, 1387 as amended, 1388, 1389 as amended, 1390, 1391 as amended, 1392, 1393, 1394, 1395, 1396, 1397 as amended, 1398, 1399 as amended, 1400, 1401, 1402 is amended, 1403, 1404, 1405 is amended, 1406, 1407, 1408, 1409, 1411 is amended, 1412 is amended, 1413. Pass on second reading, order and gross in place on the calendar for third and final passage, House Bill 1410, laid over until later today.
Thank you, Mr. Schiebel.
Representative Camacho.
Members, you have heard the motion. We do have amendments at the desk. Mr. Schiebel, please read the Richardson Amendment to the Committee of the Whole report.
Representative Richardson, move to amend the part of the Committee of the Whole to reverse the action taken by the Committee and not adopting the falling Richardson Amendment, L3 to House Bill 1389. To show that sentiment passed, that House Bill 1389 is amended passed.
Representative Richardson.
Thank you, Madam Speaker and colleagues. I know it's been a long first half of the day. but earlier I brought an amendment to, I guess I have to move this, so I would move the Richardson Amendment to the Committee of the Whole Report.
Thank you. It is displayed. Please proceed.
All right. Thank you very much. This was an amendment to House Bill 1389, which covered the Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education Grant Fund. and the purpose of that fund initially was to support districts that had adopted this to create and implement the required comprehensive human sexuality education program within their schools That was five years ago That bill required annual appropriations of a million dollars to this fund Five years later, most should have already created and implemented the program if they were going to. and the bill itself paused funding to this program in the coming year. So what this amendment essentially said was if it's important, we should fund it. If we're not funding it, it's probably not important. We should just remove it and not have money be put in the program in the creation of the draft bill just to be removed if it's not important. And if we are not to put any money in for the next couple of years, we should repeal that grant program. It does not repeal the underlying requirement for the program in the schools, just this grant program that seems to be just a zombie program that continues, and I would urge a yes vote.
Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Speaker, and I thank my colleague from Elbert County for bringing this amendment. I will ask for a no vote on this amendment. The JBC debated this very question, and we decided that we would take away the money, but we would leave the grant program in statute in hopes that someday that it might be able to be funded again and reworked. So for that reason and because of the agreements that the JBC made, I asked for a no vote.
Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of the Richardson Amendment to the Committee of the Whole Report. Mr. Schiebel, please open the machine and members proceed to vote. Representative Weinberg, how do you vote?
Yes, ma'am.
Representative Weinberg votes yes. Representative English, how do you vote?
No.
Representative English votes no. Soper and Zocay are excused. Please close the machine. With 20 I, 43 no, and 2 excused, the amendment is lost. Mr. Schiebel, please read the Marshall Amendment to the Committee of the Whole report.
Representative Marshall moved to amend the report of the Committee of the Whole to risk the action taken by the committee and not adopting the following Marshall Amendment, L2 to House Bill 1401. To show that said amendment passed, that House Bill 1401 is amended passed.
Representative Marshall.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I move the Marshall Amendment, TAC 001, to the Committee of the Whole report.
Thank you. It is properly displayed. Please proceed.
Colleagues, this was part of a two-parter, but this is the most important part. We talked again about the unclaimed property trust fund and how this body has had a history of abusing that trust. We have taken 20-year, no interest, no payment loans, which I have consistently pointed out any business person who tried to put that before the IRS would ask to be turned around and handcuffed because it's not a loan. There are many states that have Esquite statutes, and I've talked to colleagues about us having an Esquite statute, but we don't have one. So this time we not even pretending There million out of the million coming out of the trust fund That is corpus. That's principal. Not interest. Not interest that you could justify us using because it's an administrative cost for us to carry. The actual corpus of property that's owned by other people. and we're just swiping it. We don't have an Esquite statute. We have a budget amendment, or a budget, that just says take that money, Treasurer, and hand it over to the general fund. I really can't express how inappropriate I think that is, and it's not a road anyone should want to go down, so I ask that this amendment be accepted. I had already shown where we could find the money, and it's far better that we had taken it out of the reserve, which is our own money for the state, rather than swiping the money that belongs to other people. Thank you.
Representative Kelty.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. And I came up earlier on this, and I don't like the amendment, but I agree with it because it's doing less damage. This money, I know some people can't stand to see money sit. It's the same problem that we have with Social Security. They keep taking from it and taking from it and taking from it, and now we are in a bind. This is the same thing. This money does not belong to Colorado. This money 100% is the people's money. Colorado is just being entrusted to hold the money for those who have lost it, per se. They say it's unclaimed, but really it's just not claimed yet money. This money is in an account. Just look at it as individual little bank accounts that were set up for individuals to come get their money. You can't reach in there and take the money out of there and you can borrow from it, but you have to pay it back and you have to pay it back with interest. But that's not what's happening. You're just taking it. And this belongs literally in the pockets of the peoples whose names are on there. Go. Go to unclaimedproperty.colorado.gov and you'll see name after name after name after name. That belongs to those people. This money should be absolutely untouched. It should never have been touched to begin with. You can't see it as your own personal bank account to fund things that you want to fund. It doesn't belong to you. It belongs literally to the people. It's their money waiting for them to claim. And I hope people in Colorado go to unclaimedproperty.colorado.gov and go get your money because they're going to take it from you. But at least this amendment, for the lack of better words, does less harm. It steals less from the people that this money actually belongs to. I'd pass this amendment but I'm telling you when it comes to thirds please don't pass this Thank you.
Representative Slaw.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. That website is unclaimedproperty.colorado.gov. You should all go check it. As we have been listening to all these bills after this came up the first time, I may have searched almost everybody's name in this body. Many of you have money in the unclaimedproperty.colorado.gov locations. Some of you have a lot of money in those locations. That's just us here. This is the people's money. I'll say it again. This is the people's money. I wholeheartedly respect the work that our JBC members have done. I recognize they have a nearly impossible task to do, given the policies that we have given them to work with. Some relatively large policies that we've given them to work with that cover lots of things that maybe shouldn't be covered. This, again, this amendment gives the people some of their money back that we're taking from them. All of the money that we're using and that we're discussing over these days, it's the people's money, and it is our responsibility to use it wisely. This is money that's not even given to us to use. It's money that they just don't know is there because they haven't gone to unclaimedproperty.colorado.gov and claimed that money that is theirs. Some of them have thousands of dollars likely. It gets to a point on the website where it just says over $250. I would suspect that it could even be in the thousands of dollars for individuals even in this room. Again, I support this amendment. I recognize the hard work that our JVC folks have put into giving us the proposals that we have now. I also recognize the policies that we've given them to work with. And I hope that the people of Colorado go to unclaimedproperty.colorado.gov and claim their money and take back what is theirs and that for the rest of the money that we have of theirs, we spend it wisely. Thank you.
Representative Soper.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. And members, I also rise in support of this amendment. it was towards the very beginning of the session the state treasurer's office had a doors open day in which they opened up the vaults to the unclaimed property trust fund and you could go in and see amongst the different things people had in for example safety deposit boxes gold bars, silver dollars elk teeth diamond rings some random things as well. And as I was in there, just talking with our treasurer's staff, they said, Rep Soper, do you have anything on the unclaimed property list? And I said, no, no, I didn't think so. But they went ahead and plugged in my name, Matthew Soper, and guess what came up? Something over $250. And because we happened to be standing in the treasurer office there also the back end where they were able to see exactly how much that was It was I will say several thousand dollars And apparently in 2022 I didn realize that there was a expense check that I decided never to collect, although I don't think it ever came to me. It seemed to have gone to an address on Sherman Street. Well, it only took a matter of a few days before I received a check back from the state treasurer's office and the unclaimed property trust fund. That was simple, straightforward, a good example of where the state held that property in trust until the rightful owner came forth and was able to claim those assets. But I contrast that with another story, which is, as it turned out, there was a close relative of mine who also was on the list, a great aunt. And she had passed away, and in her will, she had left everything to another great aunt. And she passed away and left everything to my mother. My mother passed away intestate, and so that would have gone to my father under our rules of intestacy here in Colorado. Now, going through having to show wills and additional evidence for that connection of how one estate poured over to another state, that poured over to another state, weaving in and out of testacy and intestacy laws, estates that had gone to probate and estates that had not, using the short form. It was very complex. As a matter of fact, I'm still working on that. And I keep asking the treasurer's office, can't you give me a little bit more insight into, is this going to be like $250, or are we talking several thousand dollars, or are we talking perhaps land titles that don't mean anything because the land has already been sold and that was just something that had been held in a safety deposit box for safekeeping. Of course, they don't tell you that. But the reason why I share this story is why it happens to be that it's very difficult for some people to go through and to be able to make their claim with the unclaimed property trust fund. You want to make sure that those assets go to the rightful owner? Absolutely, 110%. But it does take a lot of work for those individuals, and you don't want to create a situation where in the meantime of that individual, like let's say they are silver dollars that have a numismatic value in addition to a silver medal value. You don't want the state selling them off at the metal value to be able to pay for balancing the budget to then be in that awkward situation of, let's say they were worth a whole lot more on the numismatic side. The state works really hard to not at least separate out the physical assets. and when I inquired with the state treasurer's office, are these all liquid assets that we're talking about, or is this the pure principle, they said some are liquid, some are not. The part that's not would be those gold bars, diamond wedding rings silver dollars Those could also be ivory elk teeth that have a value that would need to be auctioned off Other items in which people had left that ended up making their way to the treasurer's office. I say all that because some of these things we really shouldn't immediately be turning to auctioning off or selling. we should be allowing Coloradans to have that opportunity to get their property back. And like I said, it can be very difficult. That's why I'm supporting this amendment. After all, it is called a trust fund. We are holding those assets in trust, and we should respect that. There's other places we can find these resources. Thank you.
Representative Sirota.
Thank you Madam Speaker. I asked for a no vote on this amendment. I want to address a few things. One, there is a more than adequate balance in this fund to be able to continue paying out all of the claims that continue to come in. So we are not at risk of not being able to repay the claims that people are making right now. But I can appreciate the desire to put some sort of guardrails around the unclaimed property trust fund to figure out how we manage this fund going forward. our analysts did bring us a proposal to do just that. Different states address this question of what to do with some amount of the property that remains unclaimed in perpetuity. People pass away. There are any number of reasons for which some amount of that unclaimed property is just going to remain unclaimed ongoing forever. And so we just didn't have time to take that up before the long bill. I'm hoping we get to it after the long bill. Maybe it's a project for next year. But what the bill does, yes, it does in fiscal year 26 sweep $75 million from the unclaimed property trust fund. $45 million of that was sort of, yes, what we are asking to sweep. And $30 million of it is funding that was already a sweep that was put in statute in 2019 by this General Assembly to direct, if we ever fell below the Tabor cap, to direct $30 million from the UPTF into the Affordable Housing Fund. And what we are doing is stopping that. We are repealing that statute so that transfer will no longer take place. And we are instead sweeping most of it to the general fund, though we are sending $2 million to the affordable housing fund to ensure we preserve one more year of emergency housing vouchers to ensure hundreds of people don't all of a sudden become homeless due to loss of federal funding. But I just want to say the bill is also stopping the adult dental transfer that has been happening year after year after year. So yes, we're talking about $75 million in this fiscal year that we are in right now, but going forward in fiscal year 27, we won't be making that transfer of $63 million, and the year after that, that cost of the adult dental fund for Medicaid would have been $70 million. We are stopping that transfer, so it's a little bit of a trade-off, but I would also say, you know, the amount here that the amendment sponsor is suggesting we reduce from the transfer is approximately the amount that it would cost to instead take this from the Medicaid across the board provider rate cut Right now it 2% in the long bill. Would you prefer that we made it 3% instead of taking it from the UPTF? I didn't think that you would. I wouldn't prefer that. I also don't prefer to lower the reserve from 13% to 12.75% or whatever was suggested on another bill. We got a stress test from our budget director that showed that if we hit a moderate recession, that we would deplete completely our reserves in the next fiscal year. That is not a situation that I think any of us want to contemplate. So, sure, perhaps it doesn't feel ideal to take money from the UPTF, but no one is being actually harmed by that. Nobody has lost any claim to property because of any of these transfers. But I do think people would be harmed with the cuts that we would have to make if we didn't have a reserve here in the case of a recession. And I do think more people would be harmed if we had to increase our provider rate cut by 1%. So yes, this budget is full of choices. I think the choices that we made as a budget committee are better than this. I ask for a no vote.
Representative Marshall, this is your second time to speak. You have 8 minutes, 13 seconds remaining.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. So I only took a minute and 45 and that's all I expected to take, but I'm down here because I'm quite disturbed by some of the comments. This is the unclaimed property trust fund. It's not the unclaimed property savings and loan. If you were a bank president and you reached in and took deposit money because it was necessary, because your kid needed dental care, your kid needed medical care, that would still be called theft. And I get it. We're saying, well, we're the government, so it's not theft by law. Again, we don't have an Esquite statue. We just were told. We thought about doing that, but we didn't. So we're just swiping the money. And we haven't swiped the money in the past for one sole reason. Because if it was an actual transfer and we were above the Tabor cap, we couldn't keep the money. We'd have to return it to the taxpayers under Tabor. At least that's the thought. But now since we're under the Tabor cap, there's nothing preventing us from swiping money that doesn't belong to us. there's no law in place there's no esquite statute it's wrong and governments that have gone down this path in the past it has not been a path that has led to anything better it's only led to much much worse situations so making the decision of saying well we need it would you rather cut this or that it's the same argument that an accountant, an executive, sitting there saying, well, I need this for my kid, I need this for whatever reason, and reaching in and taking investment money or any other kind of money that doesn't belong to them, that's in trust, and using it for their own benefit. No matter how principled you may think that is, it's not. It's wrong. So vote yes on this. Please, thanks.
Seeing no further discussion, the motion before us is the adoption of the Marshall Amendment to the Committee of the Whole Report. Mr. Schiebel, please open the machine and members proceed to vote. Representative Weinberg, how do you vote?
Yes, ma'am.
Representative Weinberg votes yes.
Representative English, how do you vote?
No. Representative English votes no. Please close the machine. With 23 aye, 42 no, and zero excuse, the amendment is lost. Mr. Schiebel, please read the Tigard Amendment to the Committee of the Whole report.
Representative Tigard moved to amend the part of the Committee of the Whole to oversee action taken by the Committee in adopting the following Garcia Amendment, L2 to House Bill 1411, to show that said amendment lost and that House Bill 1411 has amended past.
Representative Taggart.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's an honor to serve with you. It is an honor to serve with you. I move the Taggart Amendment to the report of the Committee of the Whole.
It is properly displayed. Please proceed.
Bear with me. this amendment is to reverse the action for amendment L002 on the bill, House Bill 26-1411. When I stood up here at the introduction of this bill, I made a statement that this was a very difficult balancing situation. that on one hand, we had a program in Cover, Colorado, that had grown and has grown exponentially to what anyone in this room expected. At its maturity, as I recall, we expected it to reach a level of somewhere in the neighborhood of 25, to $30 million. And at present, we are at $100 million with a forecast of it going between $127 and $130 million next year. At the same time, the other part of the balance for me was recognizing my human side, which those of you that don't know me is who I am. Oh, please don't. You'll make it more difficult for me. I didn't want to hurt children or pregnant people that need our help. Especially, please don't take this women the wrong way, especially children that had nothing whatsoever to do with the decision to come to Colorado I also was very much aware of the fact that if we don give these children care it will in fact cause for major potential medical harm in the future. add to that the amount of uncompensated care to our hospitals that have seen a rise in uncompensated care this last year anywhere between 20 and 40 percent depending on who you talk with. That makes many of our rural hospitals in an unsustainable position just like our budget. So I tried to balance, and my colleagues worked with me. This amendment that was approved strips all of that away. It takes away a cap that I feel was a very reasonable cap because it allowed the program basically to grow almost another 20%, from 21,000 children to 25,000 children, from $100 million that we're spending this year to between $127 million and $130 million. that's giving a 20% increase and we strip that away I don't know how that creates any kind of balance and I can't make it balance in my own mind add to that this bill takes almost $7 million away from corrections, and in particular, our private prisons. We worked hard to find a compromise on the dollars and cents that we were going to compensate on a per diem basis our prisons, our private prisons, who, I'll remind you, house 3,000 Coloradans. We also, again, looked at that from a consistency and a balance standpoint. The per diem that we selected there is the exact per diem that we're paying our local jails today. That's consistency. That's balance. that gets stripped away and they go back not totally but very close to where they are today. As I recall it was a 5% increase. What do we do if those private prisons say to us with all due respect we can't operate on that per diem. And we're either going to cut back beds or you find someplace else for 3,000 individuals. We don't have that room in our prisons And the county jails are already backlogged with our lack of capacity So again, in one fell swoop, we just made a major policy change. I heard we couldn't implement the cap that we negotiated. We do caps on other things within HICFA, and to say that we can't do a cap, that's just not an accurate statement. I'm sorry. We do that today. We put trigger mechanisms in this that Representative Brown and I spent a long time talking about. And those trigger mechanisms took into account that 20% growth. Not only a 20% growth from a standpoint of individuals, but a 20% growth in utilization. Now I have to look all of you folks in the eye in addition to other Medicaid spending and say, I don't know that we're presenting you a balanced budget. Because when you see an exponential growth in this area, how can I tell you that that growth isn't going to go far beyond
what the projection is for this year? How can I tell you that? Because the track record so far on this is nowhere near that. we thought literally after three years we'd be in the 25 to 30 million. We thought at the beginning of this year that it might grow to 50 million. Halfway through the year, well, no, not even halfway through the year, we started seeing a number from the department of 70 million, and here we are now at 100 million. I think people that know me know I'm not going to criticize the persons or persons that did this amendment. But I have to tell you, I'm pretty hollow right now. It was as hard as we worked to come up with a compromise that I thought was good for the individuals that were serving. but at the same time help to balance a budget. I would ask you to vote no or vote yes, excuse me, on this Cal amendment. Thank you. Representative Brown.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. And I just want to come up mostly to express once again my appreciation for my colleague from Grand Dungeon and the work that we have done together on this bill. This is clearly difficult for both of us. I will be voting yes on this amendment. I am... This bill hurts a lot. Hurts me. but I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleague and we came to an agreement and there is nothing that I relish about this budget and this bill probably least of all, but it is important for us to continue to try to work to get this program on stable financial footing. Again, I wish that our state budget allowed us – I wish that it allowed us to address health care as a human right in the way that I believe it should be addressed. I wish that we were not forced into a realm of rationing of care based on people who are deemed to be worthy or not worthy. But that is the nature of our budget, is the nature of the position that we are put in. and I will continue to fight to make sure that every Coloradan, regardless of their documentation status, has access to the health care that they need. And I appreciate the work of my colleague from Grand Junction, and I look forward to continuing to work with him because he is a good legislator and a good human being.
Representative Garcia.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. Members, I... So I hope that nobody assumes that when we bring amendments, particularly of this nature, trying to improve access to services is because of disrespect to sponsors. There is absolutely zero disrespect to the two sponsors on this bill. I understand fully how hard they worked. I understand the agreements that they had to make with others. And I also understand that there are those who are directly impacted who are not in those rooms making those agreements. I'm so grateful that we actually have the opportunity to debate the budget and debate these orbitals, even if it's for a few minutes or a couple hours, because then that is when we can bring in the perspectives of those who are directly impacted into the conversation. The accusation that this amendment would create an imbalance in the budget is just false. This amendment has a net zero loss and a net zero gain. That is balance. what bringing a cow amendment does, it is is it's trying to reverse a vote. It's saying that the majority who supported both of these pieces, half of you supported removing the cap, more than half of you. More than half of you supported bringing back the benefits for dental care. And a cow amendment says that's not true. We are a body of democracy. We vote here. Our votes should be respected. The vote passed. a no vote on the Taggart amendment means that you respect the vote a no vote on the Taggart amendment is not about endorsing the amendment it's about respecting the process in this building it's about respecting the vote I empathize with how much work that the sponsors have engaged in I empathize truly how it feels when when someone brings an amendment that you don't want and the majority of the chamber does. But forgive me, sponsors, that I actually empathize more with the communities who will be directly impacted by these cuts. That is who I'm standing here for. I ask that we respect the vote and vote no on the Taggart Amendment.
Representative Velasco.
Thank you so much, Madam Speaker. And I was also very appreciative of the sponsors of the bill and all the work that they did and was really also very grateful to be able to speak in support of the amendments, to be able to share with y'all more about the program, to share more about the people who are being served by this important program. And we know that that's people that are our neighbors, our constituents, people that live in our communities. And at this time, we are urging a no vote on this CAO amendment. and I echo many of the points that were said like we are making very hard decisions because we want to have a balanced budget we want to respect people's humanity and we care about kids and we care about pregnant people and we know that it's important to have strong safety nets that that makes our communities better so this is the way that us that are not in the JBC have a say on this process. So really appreciate the conversations really appreciate the discussions and ask for a no vote on this amendment
Representative Taggart, you do have, this is your second time to speak, you have one minute, 24 seconds remaining. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Let me first say, Cal amendments are part of the process. and they're a respected part of the process. And to say anything different is not fair, because at some point all of us in this room will have done a cow amendment if we haven't done it already. So saying it's not a part of the process or that it's going against the vote, please, that's not fair in the least. Secondly, let's take the word cut out of this discussion. What we proposed as a part of this discussion within the JBC was to face that the program was going to grow potentially another 20%. There was no cut ever in the discussion. And in fact, we put a buffer of 5% in addition to that on utilization to be very careful on that subject. So please, it's not fair to say there was a cut. Representative Taggart, your time has expired. Thank you. Representative Marshall.
Thank you, Madam Secret. It's an honor to serve with you. It is an honor to serve with you. Colleagues, I'm up here. Despite an attempt to squash and censor independent thought or anything that's different, this original amendment that got on is very disturbing. when the Labor Party took over in Great Britain and instituted for the first time the holy grail of single-payer health care for the entire country. The thought was, well, once we take care of all the issues everyone has, the price will go down. The cost is going to go down. It's going to go down. It's going to go down. It didn't. It kept climbing. It kept climbing. They had to ration care and cap it. because there is always an infinite amount of medical care people would want. We're all getting older. We all have problems. We need to get primary care. We can't do everything for everyone. And saying health care is a human right, that's kind of sloppy thinking, because there's two types of rights, as people know, positive rights and negative rights. Native rights are thou shalt not. thou shall, that requires pushing on someone else's rights. You want a right to health care? You're going to have to take money from someone else. And that's fine. We can make those determinations. But this program is kind of disturbing. We told it like nine times more that not true in 2022 when this program was put together the projection the first year was million The first year was actually million a nine times multiple. The second year, the projection was $4.3 million. Instead, it was $79 million and 18 times. This $26,000, $27,000, $25,000 projected $96 million, 23 times the projection for that segment because we're also including the pregnant individuals that we get matching funds. But for the children, we're at 23 times. And we have a $21,000 cap. There's $21,000 enrolled now. The projection was about 1,400. And I asked a question and I was told I was rude. I was wrong. And I wasn't allowed to ask any more questions. But were we incompetent or were we deceptive making those projections that were off by a factor of 23 in a budget where $80 million
now is pushing out other spending? Representative Marshall, I will assume that you are not talking about our nonpartisan staff and their calculations when you make the statement that you will assume it was not deceptive.
Please be careful in your word choice. There's a massive mistake here. A massive mistake. And we just want to ignore it. We bring this amendment to get full dental care from $750, we're not even getting rid of it, $750 to $1,000 to take $7 million. And that's fine. We had the one story of the individual who needed an $80 procedure. That would still be covered under the $750. But in that $7 million they moved, did anyone ever think that maybe they should do $280,000 that would have been matched by federal dollars for the disabled kids who don't have 34 major organizations all pushing to get this bill through. They don't have anyone fighting for them, and they're seeing a 25% cut July 1 this year. They say the biggest cuts came to this program. No, the biggest cuts are coming to the IDD program, and those kids didn't ask to be born disabled, but they were born here. Putting a cap on, when we have caps on everything else, the IDD waivers, we're going to take that to 14 years. It's a seven-year wait list now because it's capped. They can't get any help. But we're going to uncap this program, this program that was wildly, wildly missold. and now we have $90 million pushing out other spending for very vulnerable other populations. It doesn't make a lot of sense. I was going to read a little bit because it was shocking and I'd probably get people upset, but a comment that was made yesterday on the IDD by the JBC member. It said our benefits were so good, people were moving here and they would do the same thing if it was their child, but we can't take care of every child in the country. Why does that not apply to this
program The hypocrisy is stunning Thank you Seeing no further discussion the motion before us is the adoption of the Taggart Amendment to the Committee of the Whole Report. Mr. Schiebel, please open the machine and members proceed to vote. Representative Weinberg, how do you vote? Yes, ma'am. Representative Weinberg votes yes. Representative English, how do you vote?
No. Representative English
votes no. Thank you. Please close the machine. With 28 aye, 36 no, and one excuse, the amendment is lost. The motion before us is the adoption of the Committee of the Whole Report. Mr. Schiebel, please open the machine and members proceed to vote. Representative Weinberg, how do you vote? No, ma'am. Representative Weinberg votes no. Representative English, how do you vote?
Yes.
Representative English votes yes. Please close the machine. With 42 I, 22 no, and one excuse, the Committee of the Whole report is adopted. Members, we will be reconvening in the near future, so I will ask that everyone stay close. The House will stand in recess until later today. Thank you. Thank you. . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you.
The House will come back to order.
AML Bacon.
Mr. Speaker Pro Tem, I move for a call of the house. A call of the house has been requested. We need 10 or more members to stand or raise their hands. The motion is properly sustained. Will the sergeants please close and lock the doors? Mr. Schiebel, turn on the chimes. Members, push your buttons to indicate your presence. Mr. Schiebel, please call the names of those who are absent. Will the sergeants please locate the members who are missing and make them feel extremely guilty about that?
Representatives Barone, Bottoms, Bradley, Brooks, Caldwell.
I can make that happen. Camacho, Carter, Clifford, DeGraff, Duran, English, Espinoza, Foray, Flanel, Froelich Garcia Garcia Sander Gilchrist Gonzalez Hamrick Hartsook Jackson Johnson Kelty Leader Luck Mabry Marshall Morrow Pascal Phillips Richardson Ryden Slaw Story Sukla Titone Valdez Weinberg Winter Woodrow Woog and Zokai
Majority leader Duran.
Did you call me Majority Leader Duran
Majority Leader Duran.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem. I move that the call be raised.
It has moved that the call be raised. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. The ayes have it. The call is raised.
Who is it? Is it Mabry?
Camacho. Representative Camacho.
Mr. Speaker Pro Tem, I move the House to resolve itself into Committee of the Whole for consideration of special orders.
You have heard the motion. Seeing no objection, the House will resolve itself into Committee of the Whole. Thank you.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the title to House Bill 1410.
Before you do that, I would like if you could call the roll. Wait. Oh. All right, all right. So, late in the day. Late in the day. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order. I already done that, so I'm going to do it again just for you. With your unanimous consent, the bills will be read by title unless there's a request for a reading of a bill at length. Committee reports are printed, and in your bill folders, floor amendments will be shown on the screen on I-Legislate and in today's folders on your box account. Bills will be laid over upon the motion of the Majority Leader. The coat rule is relaxed. Now, Mr. Schiebel, please read the title of the 1410.
House Bill 1410 by Representative Sirota, also Senator Bridges, concerning the provision for payment of the expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado and of its agencies and institutions formed during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, except as otherwise noted.
Members, there has been a request to read Bill 1410 at length. That request is in order. Mr. Schiebel, please begin reading the bill at length.
House committees Senate committees appropriations a bill for an act 101 concerning the provision for payment of the expenses of the 102 executive legislative and judicial departments of the 103 state of Colorado and of its agencies and institutions 104 for and during the fiscal year beginning.
Okay Thank you All right. You've called on me. All right.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move House Bill 1410 as amended.
That is a proper motion. Members, we've been practicing all day for this. Again, members, it has been requested that Bill 1410 be read at length. That request is in order. Mr. Schiebel, please begin reading the bill at length. Mr. Schiebel.
House committees Senate committees appropriations a bill for an act 101 concerning the provision for payment of the expenses of the 102 executive legislative and judicial departments of the 103 state of Colorado and of its agencies and institutions 104 for and during the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2026 105 except as otherwise noted bill summary. Note, this summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted If this bill passes third reading in the House of Introduction, a bill summary that applies to the re-engrossed version of this bill will be available at http colon slash slash leg.colorado.gov Provides for the payment of expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado, and of its agencies and House Sponsorship Sirota, Brown, Taggart Senate Sponsorship Bridges, Amabel, Kirkmeyer Shading denotes House Amendment double underlining denotes senate amendment capital letters or bold and italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law institutions for and during the fiscal year beginning july 1st 2026 except as otherwise noted one be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of colorado two section one definitions general provisions three as used in this act the following definitions and general four provisions shall apply 5 1 section 24-75-112 crs provides definitions in order to 6 specify the purpose of certain line items of appropriation 7 2 the funds designated to constitute the state emergency reserve 8 for the 2026 to 27 fiscal year are 9 a the disaster emergency fund created in section 24-33.5-70610 2 a crs up to a maximum of 212 million 368 830 11. b. The State Emergency Reserve Cash Fund created in Section 1224-77-104, 6. a. CRS, up to a maximum of $150,721,859, 13. c. The Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in Section 39-28.8-50114, 1. CRS, up to a maximum of $100 million, 15. d. The Unclaimed Property. Tourism Promotion Trust fund created 16 in section 38-13-801.5 1 CRS up to a maximum of $5 million 17 E the major medical insurance fund created in section 8-46-202 18 1 CRS up to a maximum of $25 million 19 F the Colorado Water Conservation Board Construction Fund 20 created in section 37-60-121 1 CRS up to a maximum of $21.33 million. 22. G. The severance tax perpetual base fund created in section 2339-29-109, 2. A. I. 5. CRS, up to a maximum of $35 million. 24. H. Up to $53,337,711 of state properties as follows 25 I The Capitol Annex building located at 1375 Sherman Street Dash 2 HB 26 1 Denver colorado 80203 which has a value of 37237711 and 2 2 the state parking garage located at 1350 lincoln street 3 denver colorado 80203 which has a value of 16 million 100 000 for section 2 appropriation 5 1 the sums included in this act are appropriated for money in 6 the general fund or the indicated cash funds or are reappropriated funds 7 for the payment of the ordinary operating costs of the executive eight legislative and judicial departments of the state and of its agencies and nine institutions for the fiscal year commencing july 1st 2026 10 2 figures in this act are listed under columns that describe 11 certain characteristics of the figures as follows 12 a the figures in the item and subtotal column are the amounts 13 made available by appropriation for expenditure by the department 14 division institution or entity within each line item except for the figures 15 that appear directly beneath the line which figures are subtotals of the 16 preceding line item appropriation amounts 17 b the figures in the total column are the total of the item and 18 subtotal amounts made available by appropriation for expenditure by the 19 department division institution or entity for each line item within the 20 department division institution or entity 21 c the figures in the general fund cash funds 22 reappropriated funds and federal funds columns are the amounts 23 from each funding source made available to the department division 24 institution or program for expenditure within each line item 25 d the figures in the general fund are the maximum amount 26 that may be expended by the department, division, institution, or entity for 27 expenditure from the general fund within each line item. Dash 3, HB 26-1410. 1, E, I, the figures in the, cash funds, and, re-appropriated funds, two columns, including the figures in any related letter notes, are the amount 3 of all non-general fund sources and all non-direct federal fund sources that may 4th be expended by the department, division, institution, or entity within 5 each line item. These amounts may be cash funds established by statute, 6 non-statutory cash accounts, tuitions, overhead reimbursements, certain seven fees, governmental and non-governmental third-party payments, eight payments for services, and interagency transfers. The figures indicate the nine maximum amount that may be expended from cash funds or the
specified 10 cash fund sources for the purposes shown. The amount of each cash fund's 11 or re-appropriated funds appropriation is expressly declared to be 12 non-severable from the agency, source, and purpose of the appropriation, 13 and shall not be used for any other agency or purpose. 14. 2. Whenever a state agency receives cash funds or 15. Reappropriated funds from a centralized appropriation that this act does 16 not identify as a duplicate appropriation, this subsection, 2, e, does not 17 apply. 18, 3, whenever the controller creates an account solely for the 19 purpose of establishing the obligation of a state agency to generate cash 20 funds or reappropriated funds for distribution to another state agency to 21 which this act appropriates the cash funds or reappropriated funds, this 22 subsection, 2, e, does not apply to the account created or to the 23 distribution. 24, 4, this subsection, 2, e, does not apply to cash funds fund 25 figures that are marked with an l 26 f the figures in the reappropriated funds columns are the 27 amounts that are appropriated again subsequent to an initial appropriation dash 4 hb 26-14 10 one in the same fiscal year the designation of funds as reappropriated funds 2 has no bearing on whether the appropriation of these funds constitutes a 3 grant from the state of colorado pursuant to section 22 d of article x 4 of the state constitution 5 g i the figures in the federal funds columns are the amount 6 of federal funds that are earned or received by a department, division, seven institution, or entity for expenditure within each line item. 8. 2. The figures in the federal funds column earned or received nine under the following federal programs, which are subject to a state match 10 or which are subject to transfer to other block grants, are limits on the 11 amount of expenditures of the funds, and the funds shall be expended in 12 accordance with applicable state and federal statutes, including all 13 provisions of this act. 14. A. Title XX Social Services Block Grant, and 15. B. Maternal and Child Health. Block Grant. 16. 3. The figures in the, Federal Funds, column earned or received. 17. Under the following federal programs are limits on the amount of 18 expenditures of the funds, and the funds shall be expended in accordance 19 with applicable state and federal statutes, including all provisions of this 20 Act, 21, a. Child Care Development Funds, and 22, b. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant. 23. 4. The figures in the, Federal Funds, column for all programs 24 other than those described in subsections, 2, g, 2, and, 2, g, 3. of this 25 section are anticipated federal funds and although these funds are not 26 appropriated by this act they are noted for the purpose of indicating the 27 assumption used relative to those funds in developing the basic dash 5 hb 26-14 10 one appropriations amounts 2 3 a capital letters appear directly to the right of certain figures 3 within this act these notations describe characteristics of the attached four figure that are different than the characteristics that are described by the five column that the figure is listed under as described in this subsection 3 6. B. I. Where the letter M appears directly to the right of a 7-figure listed in a general fund column, the appropriation described by 8 that figure, when combined with the related general fund transfers from 9 the centralized appropriations to the relevant department, division, 10 institution, or entity, is used to support a federally supported program and 11 is the maximum amount of general fund money that may be expended in 12 that program, except where otherwise provided. 13. 2. In the event that additional federal funds are available for a 14 federally supported program, the combined general fund amount noted as 15 m is reduced by the amount of federal funds earned or received in 16 excess of the figure shown in the federal funds column for that 17 program in the event that the federal funds earned or received are less 18 than the amount shown in the federal funds column the combined 19 general fund amount noted as m is reduced proportionately where 20 general fund support is required as a condition for the acceptance of 21 federal funds and the state matching requirements are reduced the 22 combined general fund amount noted as m is reduced proportionately 23 this subsection 3 b 2 only applies to the general fund amount that 24 remains unexpended at the time of the change in federal requirements or 25 funding this subsection 3 b 2 does not apply to an appropriation 26 noted as m to the department of health care policy and financing 27 unless the appropriation is in a line item for the executive directors dash 6 hb 26-14 10 one office it is intended that the general fund amount and the federal funds to amount be expended in equally proportioned amounts throughout the three year 4. C. Where the letter L appears directly to the right of a figure, 5. The funds are local government funds or funds of service organization, 6. From which the state purchases services, the amounts of which are not 7. Appropriated in this act and the inclusion of which is informational only. 8. D. Where the letter H appears directly to the right of a cash, 9. Funds or reappropriated funds figure, that appropriation, when combined 10 with the related cash funds or reappropriated funds transfers from the 11 centralized appropriations to a department, division, institution, or entity, 12 is used to support a federally supported program and is the maximum 13 amount of cash funds or reappropriated funds that may be expended in 14 that program, except where otherwise provided. In the event that 15 additional federal funds are available for the program, the combined cash, 16 funds or reappropriated funds amount noted as, h, are reduced by the 17 amount of federal funds earned or received in excess of the figure shown 18 in the federal funds column for that program. In the event that the 19 federal funds earned or received are less than the amount shown in the 20 federal funds column, the combined cash funds or reappropriated funds 21 amount noted as h are reduced proportionately where cash funds or 22 reappropriated fund support is required as a condition for the acceptance 23 of federal funds and the state matching requirements are reduced the 24 combined cash funds or reappropriated funds amount noted as h are 25 reduced proportionately these provisions apply only to the cash funds or 26 reappropriated funds that remain unexpended at the time of the change in 27 federal requirements or funding the general assembly intends that the dash 7 hb 26 10 One department division institution or entity expend the cash funds or 2 re funds amount and the federal funds amount in equally 3 proportioned amounts throughout the year 4. E. I, or the letter I, appears directly to the right of a 5-figure or in a letter note referencing a figure, that amount is not in 6 appropriation, nor does it limit the expenditure of the funds described by 7 that figure. The figure is included for informational purposes only It provides a record of funds anticipated to be expended and, in some 9 instances, may indicate assumptions used relative to those funds in 10 developing appropriated amounts 11.2. The I annotation applies to a general fund or cash funds 12 figure when the amount is continuously appropriated to, or otherwise 13 authorized by law to be spent by, a department or agency of state 14 government pursuant to state statute or the state constitution 15.3. The I annotation applies to a re-appropriated funds figure 16. When the amount is continuously appropriated to, or otherwise authorized 17 by law to be spent by, a department or agency of state government 18 pursuant to state statute or the state constitution or, in some instances, 19. When the underlying federal fund source from which the amount is 20 reappropriated is subject to the, I, annotation. 21.4. The I annotation applies to all federal funds except 22.A. When the federal funds represent a limit on expenditures as 23 specified in subsection 2.G.2. Of this section 24.B. When the letter M or H appears to the right of a 25 general fund, cash funds, or reappropriated funds figure in the same line 26 item, or 27.C. When the General Assembly has the authority to appropriate. 8. HB 26-1410 1. The federal funds 2. 4. The General Assembly accepts no obligation directly or 3. Indirectly for support or continuation of non-state-funded programs or 4. Grants where no direct or indirect state contribution is required 5. Furthermore, the General Assembly accepts no obligation for costs 6. Incurred by or claimed against non-appropriated federally funded 7 programs 8. 5. Money appropriated by this act shall not knowingly be paid to 9. Any organization, business firm, person, agency, or club that places 10 restrictions on employment or membership based on sex sexual 11 orientation race age marital status creed color religion national origin 12 ancestry or disability 13 6 pursuant to section 24-30-202 2 crs the controller shall 14 examine all state contracts entered into during the fiscal year commencing july 15 1st 2026 to determine whether the contracts are authorized by and 16 appropriation within this act and pursuant to section 24-30-202 3. 17 crs an agency shall not incur obligations by contract in excess of the 18 amounts appropriated by this act Appropriation from item and subtotal Total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds Federal funds $$$$$ 1 part 1 2 Department of Agriculture 3 4 1 Commissioner's Office and Administrative Services 53,106,664,86,421,390,000 personal services at 2,111,055,B119,184,6,17.5,FTE, 75,793,048,911,411,424,23,088, Health, Life, and Dental C. 4, 5, 4, 9, 8, 20, 9, 10, 6, 772, 12, 476. Short-term disability. C1, 662. I. 9. Paid family and medical leave. 10, 134, 375, 43, 534, 80, 202. Insurance. C10, 639. I. 11. Unfunded liability. 12, 2, 988, 8, 967, 431, 782, 266. Amortization payment. C2, 38, 384, 13, 9, 059, 050. Salary survey C14 366 81 268 Step pay C17 I 544 177 1931 81 071 268 507 step pay c 17 353 i 15 544 997 177 806 367 191 para direct distribution c page 10 house bill 26 to 1410 department of agriculture appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar 161797255 161485 Shift Differential C57 I 2379680 69302 310378 Workers Compensation C Operating Expenses 13412255 162885 248 For 20B950 I For 1240422 361,064 879,358 Legal Services C5 Administrative Law Judge 65,492 5,492 Services C. 7 Payment to Risk Management 8 197,819 119,928 77,891 and Property Funds C. 9 644,529 321,412 316,075 Vehicle Lease Payment C. 7 0 42 I. 10 19,301 19,301 Lease Space C. 11 Annual Depreciation Lease 12 461,617 461,617 Equivalent Payment C. 13 3,413,810 2,138,189 1,275,621 payments to OITC 14,155,440,22,764,116,097 core operations C15,800 B779,15,240,000,50,190 utilities B. Page 11 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Agriculture. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$$. 1 529,063 529,063 Office Consolidation COPC 2 Information Technology Asset 3 420,041 420,041 Maintenance 4 Information Technology 5 100 1,605 101,605 Accessibility C6 0.5 FTE 7 21,475 13,967,515 Digital Trunk Radio Payments C8 2,048,914 2,048,914 Agriculture Management Fund D9, 2.0 FTE, 10, 204,307 204,307 Indirect Cost Assessment D11, 23,143,618 12 A13 This amount shall be from the Indirect Costs Excess Recovery Fund created in Section 24-75-1401, 2, CRS, B14. An estimated $2,322,776 shall be from Departmental Indirect Cost Recoveries or the Indirect Costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401-2, CRS, and in 15 estimated $242,499 shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401-2, CRS. Page 12 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Agriculture. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. See one of these amounts, an estimated $2,968,420 shall be from the Brand Inspection Fund created in Section 35-41-102-1, CRS, an estimated $1,711,704 shall be from the Plant Health, 2 Pest Control, and Environmental Protection Cash Fund created in Section 35-1-106.3, 1, CRS, an estimated $1,478,561 shall be from the Agriculture Management Fund created in 3 Section 35-1-106.9, CRS. An estimated $740,160 shall be from the Colorado State Fair Authority cash fund created in section 35 CRS An estimated shall for be from the Inspection and Consumer Services Cash Fund created in Section 35 CRS an estimated shall be from the Agricultural Products Inspection Cash Fund 5 created in Section 35-23-114, 3, CRS, an estimated $426,680 shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in Section 39-28.8-501, 1, CRS, an estimated $78,239 shall 6b from the pet animal care and facility fund created in section 35-80-116 crs an estimated $12,242 i shall be from the agriculture value added cash fund created in section 735-75-205 1 crs which amount is included for informational purposes only an estimated $10,119 shall be from the alternative livestock farm cash fund created in section 35 841.5 to 116 crs an estimated $9,572, I, shall be from the Colorado Wine Industry Development Fund created in section 35-29.5-105, 1, CRS, which amount is included for 9 informational purposes only, an estimated $1,814 shall be from the Aquaculture Cash Fund created in section 35-24.5-111, CRS, an estimated $1,245, I, shall be from the Veterinary 10 Vaccine and Service Fund created in section 35-50-106, 1, CRS, which amount is included for informational purposes only and an estimated 2 million 457 thousand and ninety nine dollars shall be from various sources 11 of cash funds d12 these amounts shall be from the agriculture management fund created in section 35-1-106.9 crs 13 14 2 animal health division 15 3 million 440 455 2 million 759 262 467 147 program costs a 32 751 b 181 295 16 22.0 fte page 13 house bill 26 to 1410 department of agriculture appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 146 181 46 181 indirect cost assessment a two three 3,486,636.3 of 4 of these amounts, an estimated $387,717, I, shall be from the Veterinary Vaccine and Service Fund created in section 35-50-106, 1, CRS, which amount is included for 5 informational purposes only, $70,004 shall be from the Agriculture Management Fund created in section 35-1-106.9, CRS, $5,000 shall be from the Aquaculture Cash Fund 6 created in section 35-24.5-111, CRS, an estimated $500, I, shall be from the diseased. Livestock Indemnity Fund created in Section 35-50-114-3, CRS, which amount is 7 included for informational purposes only, an estimated $5,000, I, shall be from a Servidae Disease Revolving Fund created in Section 35-50-115, 1, CRS, which amount is 8 included for informational purposes only, and an estimated $40,607 shall be from various sources of cash funds. B9 This amount shall be from Departmental Indirect Cost Recoveries or the Indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401-2, CRS. 10-11-12, 3, Agricultural Markets Division Program costs 213-2,319,542-1,339,358-32, 451-a-947-733, i. 14, 6.4-fte, 15,575,368-575,368, i. Wine Promotion Board b16, 1.5-fte. Page 14 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Agriculture Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 Agriculture Workforce Development Program 3-4-2-641-661-341 661 300 000 c 3 1.0 fte for community food access 5 172 238 172 238 program 6 2.0 fte 7 46 157 27 978 i indirect cost assessment b 18 179 i 8 3 754 966 9 attend this amount shall be from various sources of cash funds b 11 these amounts shall be from the colorado wine industry development fund created in section 35-29.5-105-1, CRS, which amount is included for informational purposes only. C. 12 This amount shall be from the Agriculture Management Fund created in section 35-1-106.9, CRS. 13-14-15. Page 15 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Agriculture. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. 1.4. Brand Board 2 6,081,994 6,081,994 Brand Inspection A 3, 59.0 FTE, for 15,355 15,355 Alternative Livestock B 5 40,040,000 I. Brand S. Ray Fund C 6,281,500 281,500 Indirect Cost Assessment D 7 6,418,849 This amount shall be from the Brand Inspection Fund created in section 35-41-102-1, CRS. B10 This amount shall be from the Alternative Livestock Farm Cash Fund created in section 35-41.5-116, CRS. C11 This amount shall be from the Estray Fund created in section 35-41-102-1, CRS, and is included for informational purposes as the fund is continuously appropriated pursuant to 12 section 35-41-102, 1, CRS. D13 of this amount, an estimated $269,763 shall be from the brand inspection fund created in section 35-41-102-1, CRS, an estimated $5,593 shall be from the alternative livestock 14 farm cash fund created in section 35-41.5-116, CRS, an estimated $5,297, I, shall be from the S-Ray fund created in section 35-41-102, 1, CRS, which amount is included for 15 informational purposes only, and an estimated $847 shall be from various sources of cash funds. Page 16 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Agriculture Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 2 5 colorado state fair 3 10 million 541 thousand 571 10 million 541 thousand 571 program costs a 4 26.9 fte 5 550 250 thousand 300 thousand ffa and 4 h funding b6 state fair facilities 7 429 492 300 thousand 129 492 maintenance at 8 164 thousand 6 164 thousand 6 indirect cost assessment and 9 11 million 6 185 069 10 11 these amounts shall be from the colorado state fair authority cash fund created in section 35-65-107 1 crs b12 this amount shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501 1 crs 13 14 15 page 17 house bill 26 to 1410 department of agriculture appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$1,6 conservation services division 2 a conservation services program costs 536,166,293,2,162,012,710,491,450,000,B843,790,I,4,31.6,FTE,5 appropriation to the noxious 6 weed management funds 7 indirect cost assessment C 318 525 I 8 7 million 125 60 Weed Management Fund 7509697191 Indirect Cost Assessment C318 I 87 A 10 of this amount, $1,578,843 shall be from the Plant Health, Pest Control, and Environmental Protection Cash Fund created in Section 35-1-106.3, 1, CRS, an estimated $500,000, I. 11 shall be from the agriculture value added cash fund created in section 35-75-205-1 crs 484,392 dollars shall be from the agriculture management fund created in section 35-1-106.9-12 crs 15,000 dollars shall be from the noxious weed management fund created in section 35-5.5-116-1 crs and an estimated 132,256 dollars shall be from various sources of cash funds b 13 this amount shall be transferred from the appropriation to the noxious weed management fund line item within this section. This amount shall be from the Noxious Weed Management. 14 Fund created in Section 35-5.5-116-1, CRS. C-15 This amount shall be from the Plant Health, Pest Control, and Environmental Protection Cash Fund created in Section 35-1-106.3-1, CRS. 16. Page 18 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Agriculture. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1.B. Conservation Board 2 670,609 670,609 program costs 3,5.2 FTE for distributions to soil 5,483,767 483,767 conservation districts 6,675,225,450,000 matching grants to districts a 7,506,781 salinity control grants 506 781 i 8 appropriation to the 9 conservation district grant 10 700 000 700 000 fund b 11 3 million 36 157 12 a 13 of this amount an estimated dollar 350 000 i shall be from the conservation district grant fund created in section 35-1-106.7 1 crs which amount is included for informational 14 purposes only and an estimated 100 000 shall be from the agriculture management fund created in section 35-1-106.9 crs b 15 of this amount 400 000 shall be from shall be from the agriculture management fund created in section 35-1-106.9 crs and 300 000 shall be from the severance tax 16 operational fund created in section 39-29-109 2b crs page 19 house bill 26 to 1410 department of agriculture appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1-2-10,162,147-3-4-7, Division of Animal Welfare 5-397,509-382,509-15,000 Program Costs a 6, 3.1 FTE, 7-494,839-494,839 Bureau of Animal Protection 8, 4.0 FTE, 9-899,768-170,295-729, 16 page 20 house bill 26 to 1410 department of agriculture Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 Plant Industry Division 2 7 416 6 program costs at 818 For 630 630 indirect cost assessment of 58,260,133 6a7 of these amounts, 4,263,651 shall be from the plant health, pest control, and environmental protection cash fund created in section 35-1-106.3,1, CRS, 1,323,469 shall be 8 from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1, CRS, $1,102,541 shall be from the Industrial Hemp Registration Program Cash Fund created in section 935-61-106-1, CRS, $16,124 shall be from the Emergency Invasive Pest Control Fund created in section 35-1-106.4-1, CRS, $5,000 shall be from the Seed Potato Cash Fund 10 created in section 35-27.3-111, CRS, and 314 130 dollars shall be from various sources of cash funds 11 12 9 inspection and consumer services division 13 a inspection and consumer services 14 5 537 791 211 196 3 920 026 program costs at 84 000 b 3 22 5 68 15 45.2 ft e page 21 house bill 26 to 1410 department of agriculture Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1. Agriculture Workforce Services 2.434,807.434,807. Program 3.3.5 FTE. For 99,360,99,360. Lease purchase lab equipment. A 5.395,555. 3.95,555. Indirect cost assessment. A 6.6,467,512. 7.8 of these amounts. $3,758,449. Shall be from the Inspection and Consumer Services Cash Fund created in section 35-1-106.5. 1 CRS $197,715 shall be from the Marijuana Tax 9 cash fund created in Section 39-28.8-501 1 CRS $170,000 shall be from the Plant Health, Pest Control, and Environmental Protection Cash Fund created in Section 35-1-106.310 1 CRS and an estimated $288,777 shall be from various sources of cash funds. B11 This amount shall be from the Department of Public Health and Environment from the Clean Water Program costs line item appropriation in the Clean Water Program subdivision 12 of the Water Quality Control Division. 1314, B, Agricultural Products Inspection 15 2,825,876 200,000 2,625,876 Program Costs a 16, 34.5 FTE. Page 22 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Agriculture. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1. 222,875. 222,875. Indirect cost assessment. A. 2. 3,048,751. 3. A. 4. These amounts shall be from the Agricultural Products Inspection Cash Fund created in section 35-23-114, 3. I. CRS. 569,516,263. 789. Totals part 1. 10. 78,316,775. $18,440,346. $51,932,263. agriculture a 3,132,026,4,812,140,011 a 12 of this amount 1,919,419 dollars contains an i notation b 13 this amount contains an i notation 14 15 page 23 house bill 26 to 1410 department of agriculture appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one footnotes the following statements are referenced to the numbered footnotes throughout section 2 2 3 1 department of agriculture commissioner office and administrative services operating expenses it is the general assembly's intent that for $207,099 general fund of this appropriation be used for the implementation of a human resources and business operations solution within on base. 5 this appropriation remains available for expenditure until the completion of the project or the close of the 2026 to 27 state fiscal year whichever comes 6 first. 782 Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Markets Division, Program Costs, it is the General Assembly's intent that $39,825 general fund of this appropriation 9 be used for the International Markets Program, and $26,550 general fund be used for the Colorado Proud Program. 10. 11. 3 Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Markets Division, Agriculture Workforce Development Program, this appropriation remains available for 12. Expenditure until the close of the 2027-28 state fiscal year. 1314-4 Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Markets Division, Agriculture Workforce Development Program It is the General Assembly's intent that $64,108.15 general fund of this appropriation be used for purposes of the workforce development program 1617-5 Department of Agriculture, Conservation Services Division, Conservation Services, Program costs It is the General Assembly's intent that $300,000 general Page 24 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Agriculture Appropriation from Item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ One fund of this appropriation be dispersed for grants for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate resilience projects. This appropriation remains available 2 until the close of the 2028-29 state fiscal year Page 25 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Agriculture Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 part 2 2 Department of Corrections 3 4 1 Management 5 A Executive Director's Office subprogram 6 5264997 521192 243805 personal services a 7 42.0 FTE 4.0 FTE 8 Restorative Justice Program 9 with Victim-Offender Dialogues 10 75,000 75,000 in Department Facilities 11, 1.2 FTE, 12 101,790,248 100,339,376 1,419,860 Health, Life, and Dental B. 31012 C. 13 320,599 316,526 3,982 Short-Term Disability B. 91 C. 14 Paid Family and Medical Leave 15 2,060,577 2,034,810 25,181 Insurance B586C. Page 26 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1. Unfunded liability 245,790,616 45,218,013,559,580 Amortization payments B. 13.023 C. 3.6,621,084 6,535,045,86,039 Step pay B. 4.9,447,901 9,332,022 115,879 Para direct distribution B. 5.30,579,086 30,579,086 overtime 6,5,541,726,5,541,726 incentives and bonuses 7,24,148,340,24,127,850,20,486 shift differential B8 11,283,198 11,027,069 256,129 workers compensation B9 411 7,709 321 795,000 operating expenses at 85 000 i 10 3,627,556 3,542 714 84,842 legal services b 11 payment to risk management 12 13,989,018 13,671,468 317,550 and property funds b 13 7,075,113 6,886,576 183,887 lease space b 4 650D 14 100 1605 101 605 IT Accessibility Page 27 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$ 1 Annual Depreciation Lease 2 659,571 659,571 Equivalent Payments 3 82,410 82,410 planning and analysis contracts for 681,102 681,102 payments to district attorneys 532,175 32,175 payments to coroners 6 2,514,617 2,514,617 digital trunk radio payments 7 additional prison capacity 85,471,046 5,471,046 personal services 9 additional prison capacity 10 2,011,425 2,011,425 operating expenses 11 279 580 719 12 13 these amounts shall be transferred from the department of public safety from the state victim's assistance and law enforcement program line item appropriation in the victim's 14 assistance section of the division of criminal justice these amounts originate as cash funds from the victim's assistance and law enforcement fund created in section 24-33.5-506 15 1 crs page 28 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ Be one of these amounts, an estimated $2,299,662 is from the correctional industries account created in section 17-24-113, 3, CRS, an estimated $732,886, I, is from the canteen, vending to machine, and library account created in section 17-24-126, 1, CRS, and $40,867 shall be from the broadband infrastructure cash fund created in section 17-1-168-1, CRS. The three-canteen, vending machine, and library account is continuously appropriated pursuant to section 17-24-126, 1, CRS, and is shown for informational purposes only. C4 These amounts shall be from the Motor Fleet Management Fund created in section 24-30-1115, 1, CRS. The amount is from user fees from state agencies. D5 This amount shall be transferred from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing from the corrections subsection of the transfers to other State Department 6 Medicaid-funded program section. 7 8 B, External Capacity Subprogram 9, 1, Private Prison Monitoring Unit. 10 1,173,371 1,173,371 Personal Services. 11, 12.7 FTE, 12 183,443 153,976 29,467 Operating Expenses a 13 1,356,814 14 of 15 this amount shall be from revenues earned from monitoring private colorado prisons that house out of state offenders page 29 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one two payments to house state prisoners six two three payments to local jails at a rate for 9279841 9279841 of 77 per inmate per day five payments to bent county and 7 Crowley County Correctional Aid Facility at a rate of and 16 cents per inmate per day five payments to bent county six correctional facility and seven crowley county correctional aid facility at a rate of 77 dollars and 16 cents per 987 million 662 283 85 million 552 632 109 653 inmate per day at 10 payments to other in 11 private prisons at a rate of 115 dollars and 74 cents per inmate per day 7 12 11 13 inmate education and benefit 14 programs at in-state private 15 541 566 541 566 prison 16 297,483,691. Page 30 House Bill 26 to 1,410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. 1-2 This amount shall be from the state criminal alien assistance program cash fund created in section 17-1-107.5, 1, CRS. 3 4 c inspector general subprogram 5 5 million 494 294 5 million 388 061 106 233 personal services a 6 50.8 fte 7 477 447 394 268 3187 operating expenses a 8 207 912 inspector general grants 207 912 i 9 6 million 179 653 10 11 these amounts shall be from revenues earned from private prison out of state offender investigations 12 13 384 million 600 877 14 15 page 31 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one two institutions two a utility subprogram three four hundred eight thousand one hundred forty four hundred eight 1112 b maintenance subprogram personal services 913 26 178 26 29 118 147-260-a-14-296.4-fte. Operating expenses 9-15-11-470-632-11-138-111-332-521-a. Page 32 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$$ 14,378,985 4,378,985 broadband installation B2 3,023,427 3,023,427 maintenance Pueblo Campus 3,45,049,422 4A5 These amounts shall be from the motor fleet management fund created in section 24-30-1115 1 CRS. The amount is from user fees from state agencies. B6 This amount shall be from the broadband infrastructure cash fund created in section 17-1-168-1, CRS. 7-8, C, Housing and Security Subprogram 9-228,045,263-228,045,263 Personal Services 10-3,224.1 FTE, 11-2,060,1,441-2,061,441 Operating Expenses 12-230,106,704-13-14-15. Page 33 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1 D Food Service Subprogram 2 23 23 Personal services 3 319 ft e for 24 million 859 232 24 million 859 232 operating expenses 5 3 million 246 161 3 million 246 161 food service pueblo campus 651 million 184089 7 e medical services subprogram 10 8 9 51 1,373,447,48,516,699,322,089 Personal Services at 2,534,659 B10,409.2 FTE, 3.0 FTE, 2.0 FTE, 11,2926,898,2926,898 Operating Expenses 12,22,769,150,21,024,131,1,745,019 Purchase of Pharmaceuticals 13 10,900, 92,267, 10,992,267, Hepatitis C treatment costs 14 85,510,970, 85,510,970, external medical services 15 1,636,401,636,400, transgender healthcare Page 34 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund Cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 2 078059 2 078059 hemophilia treatments 2 12 515 757 12 515 757 service contracts 3 772 772 indirect cost assessment of 4 189 8 103 725 a 6 these amounts shall be from inmate medical fees collected pursuant to section 17-1-113 2 crs b 7 these amounts shall be transferred from the department of health care policy and financing from the correction subsection of the Transfers to other State Department Medicaid 8 funded program section. 910, F, Laundry subprogram 11 3,170,431 3,170,431 personal services 12, 38.4 FTE 13,2,517,159 2,517,159 operating expenses 14,5,687,590 15. Page 35 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 123 G Superintendent Subprogram 4 14,571,090 14,571,090 Personal Services 5,168.9 FTE 66,093,867,6,093,867 operating expenses 75,334,775,5,334,775 inmate telephone calls 81,6,281,6,280 dress out 920,7,6,012,10,11, H. youthful offender system subprogram 12 13,674,905 13,674,905 personal services 13,162.7 FTE 14 607 455 607 455 operating expenses 15 28 820 28 820 contract services page 36 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar $1.423,469 423,469 Maintenance Expenses 2 942,684 942,684 Food Service Expenses 3 15,677,333,45 I Case Management Subprogram 621 21 Personal Services 7 FTE 8 178 Operating Expenses 9 367 367 offender ID program 10 21 11 12 J mental health subprogram 13 15,175,717 15,175,717 personal services 14 167.0 FTE 15 316,766 316,766 operating expenses. Page 37 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 16,547,166,6,547,166 medical contract services 222,039,649,345,717,584,5,715,586,1998, K. Inmate pay subprogramma 5A6 This shall be from the Motor Fleet Management Fund created in section 24-30-1115, 1, CRS. The amount is from user fees from state agencies. 78, L, Legal Access Subprogram 9 2,023,387 2,023,387 Personal Services 10, 27.4 FTE 11,800, 3,777, 800, 3,777 Operating Expenses 12,70,905, 70,905 Contract Services 13,2,898,069, 14,15, 642,983,103 Page 38 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 2 3 support services 3 a business operations subprogram 4 7882744 7109624 56609 personal services a 716 511 b 5 90.8 fte 13.8 fte 6231951 231951 operating expenses 7 8114 $51,695.8 and 9 of this amount, $51,175 is from restitution collected pursuant to section 16-18.5-109, 3, CRS, $2,813, I, is from the canteen, vending machine, and library account created in 10 section 17-24-126, 1, CRS, and $2,621 is from the correctional industries account created in section 17-24-113, 3, CRS. The canteen, vending machine, and library account 11 is continuously appropriated pursuant to section 17-24-126-1, CRS, and is shown for informational purposes only. B12 of this amount, $654,878 shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401, 2, CRS, and $61,633 shall 13 be from statewide indirect cost recoveries. 14-15. Page 39 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 2 b personnel subprogram 3 2,523,913 2,523,913 personal services 4 32.3 FTE 5 438,461 438,461 operating expenses 6 2,962,374,78 c. Offender Services Subprogram 9 3,887,289 3,887,289 Personal Services 10. 44.1 FTE, 1162,044 62,044 Operating Expenses 12 3,949,333 13 14 d. Communications Subprogram 15 1,679,601 1,679,154,51 Operating Expenses a. Page 4 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 328,510 328,510 Dispatch Services 2 2,8111 3A4 This amount shall be from the Motor Fleet Management Fund created in section 24-30-1115 1 CRS The amount is from user fees from state agencies 5 6 e transportation subprogram 7 2 million 763 thousand and 25 2 million 763 thousand and 25 personal services 8 41.0 fte 9 483 thousand 538 483 thousand 538 operating expenses 10 5 million 463 thousand 602 4 million 660 thousand 850 800 2752 vehicle lease payments at 11 8 million 710 thousand 165 12 a 13 of this amount an estimated 628 thousand 677 dollars is from the correctional industries account created in section 17-24-113, 3, CRS, and an estimated $1.74075, I, is from the canteen, 14 vending machine, and library account created in section 17-24-126, 1, CRS. The canteen, vending machine, and library account is continuously appropriated pursuant to 15 section 17-24-126, 1, CRS, and is shown for informational purposes only. Page 41 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 2 F Training subprogram 3 2,839,101 2,839,101 Personal services for 33.0 FTE 5 2,920,806 2,918,493 2,313 Operating expenses a 6 5,759,907 7 8 This amount shall be from the Motor Fleet Management Fund created in section 24-30-1115-1, CRS. The amount is from user fees from state agencies. 910, G, Information System Subprogram 11 1,450,573 1,449,939,634 Operating Expenses at 12 Electronic Offender 13 Management Information 14 3,388,213 3,388,210 System 15 34,552,374,34,440,295,112,079 payments to OITB Page 42 House Bill 26 to 1,410 Department of Corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 443425 410 456 18139 core operations b 14 830 c 239 834 582 3 a 4 this amount shall be from the motor fleet management fund created in section 24-30-1115 1 crs the amount is from user fees from state agencies b 5 of these amounts an estimated 103 306 dollars is from the correctional industries account created in section 17-24-113, 3, CRS, and an estimated $26,912, I, is from a canteen, vending six machine, and library account created in section 17-24-126, 1, CRS. The canteen, vending machine, and library account is continuously appropriated pursuant to section 17-24-126, 7, 1, CRS, and is shown for informational purposes only. C8 This amount shall be from correctional industry sales to other state agencies. 910, H, Facility Services Subprogram 11 1,522,574 1,442,957 79,617 Personal Services A 12, 16.0 FTE, 1394,913 94,413 500 Operating Expenses A 14 1 15 Page 43 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar a one these amounts shall be from the broadband infrastructure cash fund created in section 17-1-168 1 crs 2 372 956 654 454 inmate program 6 a labor subprogram 7 6232 937 6232 2937 personal services 8 75.4 fte 9 88 017 88 017 operating expenses 10 6 million 320 954 11 12 b education subprogram 13 17 million 24 111 17 million 24 111 personal services 14 196.5 fte 15 4 million 396 924 2 million 850 944 1 million 257 065 operating expenses a 288 915 b page 44 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 818 178 818 178 contract services 222 239 213 3 of 4 of this amount an estimated dollar 726 707 i is from the canteen vending machine and library account created in section 17-24-126 1 crs and an estimated 530 358 dollars is from 5 revenue from vocational program sales to non-state entities the canteen vending machine and library account is continuously appropriated pursuant to section 17-24-126 1 crs 6 and is shown for informational purposes only b7 this amount shall be from sales revenues earned by vocational programs for products and services sold to other government agencies. 8 9 C recreation subprogram. 10 8 million 990 2,935 8 million 990 2,935 personal services. 11 11 19.5 FTE 12 77,552 77,552. I operating expenses. A 13 9 million 70,487 14 page 45 house bill 26 to 1,410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds, reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. A one this amount shall be from the canteen, vending machine, and library account created in section 17-24-126-1, CRS. The canteen, vending machine, and library account is too continuously appropriated pursuant to section 17-24-126-1, CRS, and is shown for informational purposes only. 3-4, D, Drug and Alcohol Treatment Subprogramme 5-7,317,703-7,317,703 Personal Services 6, 91.1 FTE 7, 123,724 123,724 Operating expenses 8, 1,697,251 1,697,251 Contract services 9, 9,138,678 10, 11, 12 E. Sex offender treatment subprogram 13, 3,974,434 3,943,231,234 Personal services a 14, 55.8 FTE, 1.0 FTE, 1592,276, 91,776, 500 operating expenses a. Page 46 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. 1 129,320 129,320 polygraph testing 2 4,196,033 a.4 these amounts shall be from the sex offender surcharge fund created in section 18-21-103 3 crs 5 6 f volunteers subprogram 7 485 574 485 574 personal services 8 7 FTE 9 17 412 17 412 operating expenses 10 500 2986 11 12 51 468 348 13 14 15 Page 47 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1 2 5 community services 3 a parole subprogram 4 24 million 875 thousand 128 24 million 875 thousand 128 personal services 5 326.5 fte 6 2 million 875 thousand 425 2 million 875 thousand 425 operating expenses 7 parolee supervision and support 8 8 million 911 thousand 261 4 million 847,969,4,063,292 services and 9,1,822,869,1,822,869 wraparound services program 10,25,000,25,000 insurance payments 11 grants to community-based 12 organizations for parole 13,7,176,734,7,176,7,134 support 14 community-based 15,500,500,000 organizations housing support. Page 48 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 500,500,000 parolee housing support 246,686,417 3 of 4 this amount shall be transferred from the judicial department from the correctional treatment cash fund expenditures line item appropriation in the probation and related services 5 section. 6 7 b community supervision subprogram 8 1 community supervision 9 5 million 128 thousand and 41 5 million 128 thousand and 41 personal services 10 48.0 fte 11 505 thousand and 42 500 5042 operating expenses 12 31 thousand 431 thousand 400 psychotropic medication 13 community supervision 14 2 million 353 thousand 744 2 million 353 thousand 744 support services 15 8 million 18 thousand 227 page 49 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one two three two youthful offender system aftercare for 662902 personal services 5 8.0 ft 6 141 067 operating expenses 7 897 584 contract services 8 1 1,700,1553 1,700,1553 910, C. Community Reentry Subprogram 113,137,816 3,137,816 Personal Services 12, 42.6 FTE, 13,146,702 146,702 Operating Expenses 14,96,768 96,768 Offender Emergency Assistance 15,190,190 Contract Services Page 50 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 offender re-employment 2 100,000 100,000 center 3 3,671,286 4 5 60,077,483 6 7 6 parole board 8 2,163,839 2,163,839 personal services 9 20.5 FTE 10 10 7,890 10 7,890 operating expenses 11 242,437 242,437 contract services 12 187,237 187236 Administrative and IT Support 13 FTE 14270014215 Page 51 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Corrections Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds 1, 7, Correctional Industries 28,358,894 3,370,763 Personal Services a 4,988,131 B3, 4.1 FTE, 102.9 FTE For 7,196,335 1,904,019 operating expenses a 5,292,316 b.5 16,953,458 3,360,954 raw materials a 13,592,504 b.6 3,766,231 1,526,474 inmate pay a 2,239,757 b.7 1,219,310 3,09,259 capital outlay a 9,10,051 b.8 484,760, 6-113-081 indirect cost assessment to 371-625 b 937-978-934-1011 of these amounts an estimated 10,434-550 is from the correctional industries account created in section 17-24-113-3 crs and an estimated 150,000 is from rents and royalties 12 earned on penitentiary trust land managed by the state board of land commissioners pursuant to section 36-1-116-2 crs b 13 of these amounts an estimated 14 million 425 thousand 718 dollars is from the department of revenue for the purchase of license plates and an estimated 12 million 968 thousand 666 dollars is from sales to other state agencies 14 15 page 52 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar $1.8. Canteen Operation 2 2,792,441 Personal Services 3,33.0 FTE. For 18,930,041 Operating Expenses 573,626 Inmate Pay 6,127,167 Indirect Cost Assessment 7,21,923,275 21,923,275 I.A. 8 and 9 This amount shall be from the canteen, vending machine, and library account created in section 17-24-126-1, CRS, which is continuously appropriated pursuant to section 1017-24-126-1, CRS, and is shown for informational purposes only. 11-12-13 Totals Part 2 14 1,274,690,076 $1,190,318,065 $46,538,145 corrections a 37 540 954 292 912 billion dollars 15 page 53 house bill 26 to 1410 department of corrections appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar a one of this amount 23 664 220 dollars contains an i notation b2 this amount contains an i notation three four footnotes the following statements are referenced to the numbered footnotes throughout section 2. 566 Department of Corrections, Management, External Capacity Subprogram, Payments to House State Prisoners, the Department of Corrections is authorized 7 to transfer up to 1% of the total appropriation for External Capacity Subprogram between line items in the External Capacity Subprogram for purposes aid of reimbursing local jails, private prison providers, and community corrections providers. 9107 Department of Corrections, Management, External Capacity Subprogram, Payments to House State Prisoners, Payments to other in-state private prisons at 11 a rate of $115.74 per inmate per day. It is the General Assembly's intent that if the standard caseload methodology used by Joint Budget Committee Staff 12 for state fiscal year 2026 to 27 prison caseload funding, updated using the June 2026 Division of Criminal Justice Prison Caseload Forecast, indicates the need. 13 for at least 200 beds of additional male prison capacity by the end of the 2026-27 state fiscal year beyond the state and private prison caseload beds funded. 14 in the fiscal year 2026-27 long bill, the Department of Corrections will submit an over-expenditure request pursuant to section 24-75-111, CRS, for 15 additional contracted private prison beds that includes the department's calculations that indicate the need for at least 200 beds of additional male prison 16 capacity. Page 54 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1.8 Department of Corrections, Institutions, Utility Subprogram, Core Utilities, Energy Conservation and Operating Expenses The Department of Corrections 2 is authorized to transfer money from the Energy Conservation and Operating Expenses line item to the Core Utilities line item 3.4.9 Department of Corrections, Institutions, Maintenance Subprogram, Personal Services, Operating Expenses the appropriation of reappropriated funds remains 5 available for expenditure until the close of the 2027 to 28 state fiscal year. 6710 Department of Corrections, Institutions, Medical Services Subprogram, the Department of Corrections is authorized to transfer up to 5% of the total aid appropriation for purchase of pharmaceuticals, hepatitis C treatment costs, and external medical services between those line items for the purposes of providing 9 pharmaceuticals, hepatitis C treatments, and external medical services for inmates. Page 55 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of corrections. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1 part 3 2 department of early childhood 3 4 1 executive directors office 5 general administration 6 8 725 456 personal services 7 79.8 fte 8 4 877 122 health life and dental 9 16 649 short-term disability 10 paid family and medical leave 11 107 027 insurance 12 unfunded liability 13 2 378 384 amortization payments 14 165 911 step pay 15 457,001 181 para direct distribution 16 576,220 workers compensation page 56 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ $1,798,225 operating expenses 2 1,441,362 legal services 3 administrative law judge 4 10,332 services 5 payment to risk management 6 74,305 and property funds 7 7,078 vehicle lease payments 8 120 6,730 capital outlay 9 342,020 lease space 10 statewide indirect cost 11 176 389 assessment 12 20 million 280 391 8 million 622 178 1 5 72 for 11 a 7 3 29 173 b 2 7 56 6 29 c 13 page 57 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar A one of this amount, $247,007 shall be from the Preschool Programs Cash Fund created in Section 26 CRS shall be from the Nurse Home Visitor Program Fund 2 created in Section 26 C I CRS 401 I shall be from the Early Intervention Services Trust Fund created in Section 26 shall be from 3 the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in Section 39-28.8-501-1-CRS and $1,018,262 shall be from various cash fund sources. The Early Intervention Services Trust Fund amount 4 is shown for informational purposes only as this fund is not subject to appropriation by the General Assembly and the amount is exempt from the restrictions on state spending imposed 5 by Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution pursuant to Section 26.5-3-409-2-A, CRS. Be 6 of this amount, $7,152,784 shall be from Departmental Indirect Cost Recoveries or the Indirect Costs Excess Recovery Fund created in Section 24-75-1401-2, CRS, and $176,389. 7 shall be from Statewide Indirect Cost Recoveries. C. 8 of this amount, $2,756,291 shall be from child care development funds and $338, reflects funds anticipated to be received pursuant to Part C of the federal individuals with 9 Disabilities Education Act. 10 11 b information technology systems 12 information technology 13 11 million 815 thousand 850 7 million 876 thousand 366 3 million 260 thousand contracts and equipment to 679 486 b 14 information technology 15 systems managed by other 16 571 796 66 22 505 174 departments b page 58 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1.12,260,508,9,885,573 2.374,935 Payments to OITC 2.90,532,90,532 Core Operations 3.157,887,157,880 7.IT Accessibility 4.0.9 FTE 5. Child care automated tracking 6.3,945,244,35,311 3,909,933 System B. 728,841,819,8 and 9 This amount shall be from the preschool program cash fund created in section 26.5-4-209,1,A, CRS. B. 10 These amounts shall be from child care development funds. C. 11 This amount shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401,2,CRS. 12 13 49 122 10 14 15 16 page 59 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar two partnerships and collaborations 11 1 2 864 651 291 524 573 127 personal services a 3 6.5 FTE for 182 766 45 846 136 920 operating expenses a early childhood councils 12 5 14 million 842 227 3 million 776 986 2 800 000 b 8 to 65 241 a 6 child care resource and 7 200 1831 referrals 201 831 a 8 4 million 116 107 4 million 116 107 family resource centers 9 377 643 24 000 indirect cost assessment b 353 643 a 10 20 million 585 225 11 a 12 these amounts shall be from child care development funds b 13 these amounts shall be from the preschool program cash fund created in section 26 crs 14 15 16 page 60 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one three early learning access and quality 11 238 661 784 2 863 339 889 576 personal services a 908-869-B4, 53.6-FTE, 5-238-784-12-480-18-430 Operating Expenses at 207-874-B6-363-108-799-147-942-865-215-165-934 Universal Preschool Programma 7-186-257-773-37-616-250-296-012-I, Child Care Assistance Program C 100 000 D 128 245 5 11 B 8 intrastate child care assistance 9 500,000 program redistribution 500 000 B 10 workforce recruitment and 11 1,153,167 retention grants 1 153,167 B 12 professional development and 13 574,317 75,499,317 training B 14 early childhood quality and 15 486,116 266,257 219,859 availability B 16 1 1624365 1624365 Imagination Library of Colorado Page 61 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Early Childhood Appropriation from Item and Subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$$ $14,740,835,216,000 indirect cost assessment a 4,524,835 b2,567,345,943 a 4 these amounts shall be from the preschool programs cash fund created in section 26.5-4-209,1, CRS. b5 these amounts shall be from child care development funds. c6 this amount shall be from local funds and reflects the local share of the costs of administering the child care assistance program and the local share of child care subsidies. The L-7 notation applies to this amount. D-8 This amount shall be from the title XX Social Services Block Grant transferred from the Child Welfare Services line item in the Department of Human Services. 9, 4, Community and Family Support 1110 114,483,972 2,091,847,508,698 Personal Services A1,883,427 B12,23.8 FTE, 13,329,641,185,233,52,188 Operating Expenses C92,220 D14,92,604,480,69,644,607,10,987,177, I. Early Intervention E 5.940-111 F 6.032, 585, I.G. 15 29,163,727,400,370 Home visiting H1, 763, 337, I.I. 16 314,113,314,113 Healthy Steps Page 62 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Early Childhood Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 Universal Home Visiting Pilot 2 2,528,842 2,528,842 Program 3, 1.0 FTE, for 11,446,614,5,100,2,208,216 Child Maltreatment Prevention J4, 138,398, I, K5 Early Childhood Mental Health 6,3,274,481,1,213,032,2,061,449 Services L7 Social Emotional Learning 8,870,8,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9, 17 programs grants M9 859 000 344 308 597 indirect cost assessment n 550 747 010 145 822 483 11 a 12 of this amount 251 719 dollars shall be from the nurse home visitor program fund created in section 26.5-3-507 2 c i crs 130 580 dollars shall be from the colorado child abuse 13 prevention trust fund created in section 26.5-3-206-1, CRS, $116,229 shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501, 1, CRS, and $10,170, I, shall 14 be from the early intervention services trust fund created in section 26.5-3-409, 2, A, CRS. The early intervention services trust fund amount is shown for informational purposes. 15 only as this fund is not subject to appropriation by the General Assembly and the amount is exempt from the restrictions on state spending imposed by section 20 of article x of the 16 state constitution pursuant to section 26.5-3-409-2 a crs page 63 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar be one of this amount dollar 1 515 563 i reflects funds anticipated to be received pursuant to part c of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, $207,217 shall be from Child Care 2 Development Funds, $95,779, I, reflects funds anticipated to be received pursuant to Title 4b, subpart 2, of the Social Security Act, and $64,868, reflects funds anticipated to be 3 received pursuant to the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grant Fund, C4 of this amount, $29,084 shall be from the Nurse Home Visitor Program Fund created in Section 26.5-3-507, 2, C, I, CRS, $20,254 shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created 5 in section 39-28.8-501-1, CRS, and $2,850 shall be from the Colorado Child Abuse Prevention Trust Fund created in section 26.5-3-206-1, CRS. D. 6 of this amount, $33,202 shall be from child care development funds, $32,944, reflects funds anticipated to be received pursuant to Part C of the federal individuals with disabilities. 7 Education Act, $21,024, reflects funds anticipated to be received pursuant to Title 4b, subpart 2, of the Social Security Act, and $50,050,i, reflects funds anticipated to be received 8 Pursuant to the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grant Fund E9 This amount shall be from the Early Intervention Services Trust Fund created in Section 26.5-3-409,2,A, CRS The Early Intervention Services Trust Fund amount is shown for 10 informational purposes only as this fund is not subject to appropriation by the General Assembly and the amount is exempt from the restrictions on state spending imposed by Section 1120 of Article X of the State Constitution pursuant to Section 26.5-3-409-2, A, CRS. F-12 This amount shall be from Medicaid funds transferred from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing in the transfer to Department of Early Childhood for Early Intervention 13 line item. G-14 This amount reflects funds anticipated to be received pursuant to Part C of the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. H. 15 This amount shall be from the Nurse Home Visitor Program fund created in section 26.5-3-507-2, C. I. CRS, which is received as a damage award and, as such, does not constitute 16. Fiscal year spending for the purposes of section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution I. 17 This amount shall be from the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant Program Page 64 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Early Childhood Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. J1 of this amount $1,133,816 shall be from the Colorado Child Abuse Prevention Trust Fund created in section 26.5-3-20. 1 CRS and $1074,400 I L shall be from local funds. K2 of this amount, $3,390,000 I reflects funds anticipated to be received pursuant to Title 4B subpart 2 of the Social Security Act and $748,398 I reflects funds anticipated to be 3 received pursuant to the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grant Fund. L4 this amount shall be from Child Care Development Funds. M5 this amount shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in section 39-28.8-501 1 CRS and 6 of this amount $204,077 shall be from the nurse home visitor program fund created in section 26.5-3-507-2 CICRS and $104,520 shall be from various sources of cash funds 7 the nurse home visitor program fund created in section 26.5-3-507-2 CICRS is received as a damage award and as such does not constitute fiscal year spending for the 8 purposes of section 20 of article x of the state constitution 09 of this amount 96212 dollars shall be from child care development funds and dollar 454535 shall be from various sources of federal funds 10 5 licensing and administration 11 11 12 9656 145 2319 056 1320 800 personal services a 6 0 16 289 b 13 82.7 fte 14 669 374 49,366 271,615 operating expenses c 348 393 d 15 1,261,344 1,261,344 background investigation unit e 16 8.7 fte page 65 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $13,726,287,317,877 indirect cost assessment F3,408,410 B2,15,313,153 A4 of this amount $1,310,800 shall be from the child care licensing cash fund created in section 26.5-5-311,4, CRS and dollar 10,000, I, shall be from the child care cash fund created 5 in section 26.5-5-323,4, CRS. The child care cash fund amount is shown for informational purposes as it is continuously appropriated for activities related to the improvement of 6 the quality of child care in Colorado pursuant to section 26.5-5-323 for CRS. B7 these amounts shall be from child care development funds. C8 this amount shall be from the child care licensing cash fund created in section 26.5-5-311 for CRS. D9 of this amount $198,393 shall be from child care development funds and dollar 150 000 i shall be from title 4e of the social security act the amount from title 4e of the social 10 security act is reflected pursuant to section 26-1-111 2 d 2 b crs and shall be used in determining the amount to be deposited to the excess federal title 4e reimbursements 11 cash fund pursuant to section 26-1-111 2 d 2 c crs e 12 of this amount 970 811 dollars shall be from the records and reports fund created in section 19-1-307 2.5 b crs and 290 533 dollars shall be from the child care licensing cash fund 13 created in section 26.5-5-311 for crs f-14 this amount shall be from various sources of cash funds 15 16 page 66 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds funds re funds federal funds 1 Totals Part 3 to Early Childhood, a $15,744,219, $183,936,671,000,000, 3 of 4 of this amount, $21,370,412 contains an . Notation N. $32,475,160 contains an . Notation N is included for informational purposes only. B5 of this amount, $14,274,421 contains an notation and is included for informational purposes only 6-7 footnotes, the following statements are referenced to the numbered footnotes throughout section 2 8-9-11 Department of Early Childhood, Partnerships and Collaborations, Early Learning Access and Quality, Community and Family Support, Licensing and Ten Administration, in addition to the transfer authority provided in section 24-75-108, CRS the department of early childhood may transfer up to 5% 11 of the total amount appropriated to the indirect cost assessment line items in these divisions among the indirect cost assessment line items in these divisions 12 13 12 department of early childhood partnerships and collaborations early childhood councils the general assembly intends that this amount not be used 14 for the department's internal operations but be allocated to early childhood councils and local coordinating organizations page 67 house bill 26 to 1410 department of early childhood okay good talks guys see you appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one part four two department of education three four one management and administration five a administration and and Centrally Appropriated Line Item 6 568,447 568,447 State Board of Education 7, 2.5 FTE 8 General Department and 97,297,965 3,186,372 193,586 Program Administration A 3, 9, 18, 007B 10, 24.2 FTE 2.1 FTE, 19.9 FTE, 11659443494167165276 Grants Administration C12, 0.7 FTE, 0.2 FTE, 1311826616467902215496 Health, Life, and Dental D1, 361, 210E3, 770, 890, I, 1448920. 20,622 7,166 short-term disability D5, 501 E15, 631, I Page 68 House Bill 26 to 1,410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ One paid family medical leave 2,314,486 132,569 46,069 insurance D35, 362 E 100 486 I 3 unfunded liability amortization for 6,988,572 2,945,984 1,023,749 payments D 785 817 E 2 233 022 I 5,197,197 salary survey 6 1,049,411 644,710 4,066 step pay D 74 274 E 226 371 I 71,301,941,964,738,199,197 para direct distribution D. 138,006 E. 8352,879,169,545,46,050 workers compensation D. 11,925 E. 125,359,I. 9 1 398 355 864 183 468 449 legal services d 65 723 e 10 administrative law judge 11 182 730 182 730 services f 12 payment to risk management 13 627 918 627 918 and property funds 14 1 million 329 506 378 908 241 971 capital complex least space d 120 985 g 587 642 i 15 207 988 102 556 7663 core operations h 23 1 19 i 5 i 1634,155,374. Page 69 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1-2 This amount shall be from general education development program fees. B3 of this amount, $2,848,160 shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401, 2, CRS. and $1,069,847.4 shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401-2, CRS. C. 5. Of this amount, $106,424 shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the state constitution, $40,262 shall be from the marijuana tax cash 6 fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1, CRS. 4459 dollars shall be from the public school capital construction assistance fund created in section 22-43.7-104 and 14131 dollars 7 shall be from various sources of cash funds pursuant to section 17 of article 9 of the state constitution appropriations from the state education fund are not subject to the eight limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article x of the state constitution d9 of these amounts 1 million 810 281 dollars shall be from the state education fund created in section 17 for a of article 9 of the state constitution dollar 1 381 925 i shall be from the educator 10 licensure cash fund created in section 22-60.5-112 1 crs 527 730 dollars shall be from the public school capital construction assistance fund created in section 22-43.7-104 1 11 crs 91 109 dollars shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1, CRS, $78,772 shall be from the Healthy School Meals for All Program Fund created 12 in section 22-82.9-211, 2, A, CRS, $29,938 shall be from general education development program fees, and $232,458 shall be from various sources of cash funds. Pursuant to section 1317, 3, of article 9 of the state constitution, appropriations from the state education fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article 14x of the state constitution page 70 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar e one of these amounts 2 million 208 130 dollars shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401 2 crs 65723 is 2 estimated to be transferred from the division of public school capital construction assistance line item appropriation in the school district operations section of this department 3 26 405 is estimated to be from medicaid funds transferred from the department of health care policy and financing from the transfer to the department of education for public school for health services administration line item in the executive director's office 22 779 dollars is estimated to be transferred from the department of regulatory agencies from the reading services 5 for the blind cash fund and disabled telephone users fund in the public utilities commission and 154 781 dollars shall be from various sources of re-appropriated funds. F6 of this amount shall be from the educator licensure cash fund created in section 22 1 CRS and shall be from the state education fund created 7 in section 17, 4, A, of article 9 of the state constitution. Pursuant to section 17, 3, of article 9 of the state constitution, appropriations from the state education fund are not subject 8 to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article X of the state constitution. g9 of this amount $104,814 shall be transferred from the Division of Public School Capital Construction Assistance Line Item Appropriation in the School District Operations section of 10 this department and $16,171 shall be from Departmental Indirect Cost Recoveries or the Indirect Costs Excess Recovery Fund created in section 24-75-1401-2 CRS h11 of this amount it is estimated that $39,071 shall be from the State Education Fund created in section 17-4-a of Article 9 of the State Constitution, $18,243, I, shall be from the 12 educator licensure cash fund created in Section 22-60.5-112, 1, CRS, $13,356 shall be from the Public School Capital Construction Assistance Fund created in Section 1322-43.7-104, 1, CRS, $4,758 shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in Section 39-28.8-501, 1, CRS, $1,142 shall be from general education development program 14 fees and $93 shall be from various sources of cash funds pursuant to section 17, 3, of article 9 of the state constitution appropriations from the state education fund are not subject 15 to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article X of the state constitution I 16 this amount shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401, 2, CRS page 71 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$1-2,b, information technology 35,633,894,5,410,379,223,161 information technology services a 354b4,30.0fte,0.5fte,5,842,807,622,265,165,719 payments to OITC 54,823d6,177, 71563 171563 IT Accessibility 7 0.9 FTE 8 Information Technology Asset 9 969147 969147 Maintenance 10 19722 19722 Disaster Recovery 11 7 637 13 12 13 This amount shall be from the statewide longitudinal data system cash fund created in section 24-37.5-125 8 CRS. B. 14 This amount shall be transferred from various federal funds appropriations to the Department of Education. Page 72 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. c. 1 of this amount, it is estimated that $81,390 shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, a. of Article 9 of the State Constitution, $31,396, i. shall be from the 2 Educator Licensure Cash Fund created in Section 22-60.5-112, 1. CRS $24,110 shall be from the public school capital construction assistance fund created in section 322-43.7-104-1 CRS $19,078 shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1 CRS $1,094 shall be from general education development program for fees and $8,651 shall be from various sources of cash funds pursuant to section 17-3 of article 9 of the state constitution Appropriations from the State Education Fund are not five subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article X of the state constitution D6 amount shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401-2, CRS. 7-8, C, special purpose 9 BOCES funding per section 22, 10-3,330,051-3,330,051-5-122, CRS 11, 1.0 FTE, 12 interstate compact on 13 educational opportunity for 1432,921-32,921 military children a 15-24,824,800 teacher of the year a 16-3,387, 1772. Page 73 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1 or 2 these amounts shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, a, of article 9 of the state constitution. Pursuant to section 17, 3, of article 9 of the state 3 constitution, appropriations from the state education fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article x of the state constitution for 5 d indirect cost assessment 6 967 042 591 523 i indirect cost assessment a 375 519 7 8 this amount shall be from the educator licensure cash fund created in section 22-60.5-112 1 crs 9 10 46 147 321 11 12 2 statewide assessment program 13 32 905 7,832,603,I,B 14,4.0,FTE,15.9,FTE,15. Page 74 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. A 1 this amount shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, A, of article 9 of the state constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State Constitution, two appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. B. 3 This amount shall be from the Federal Grant for State Assessments and Related Activities authorized pursuant to Title VI, Part A, Section 61-13 of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act 4 of 2001, and is shown for informational purposes only. 5 6 3 school district operation 7 a public school finance 8 2 million 645 thousand 74 2 million 3 hundred eighty thousand 153 264 921 administration a 9 17.1 fte 1.5 fte 10 financial transparency system 11 97 731 97 731 maintenance a 12 1.0 fte 13 3 million 3 million school finance audit payments b 14 state share of districts total 15 5 567 435 495 4 318 686 861 program funding c 1 248 748 634 d extended high school 13 16 4 084 701 4 0 84 701 a page 75 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$$. One district per pupil two reimbursements for juveniles three ten thousand ten thousand held in jail before three million five hundred four thousand nine hundred ninety five three million five hundred four thousand nine hundred ninety five at risk supplemental eight of five one million one million contingency reserve fund e6 five billion five hundred eighty one million seven hundred seventy seven thousand nine hundred ninety six seven eight these amounts shall be from the state education fund created in section seventeen four a of article nine of the state constitution pursuant to section seventeen three of article nine of the State 9 Constitution, appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. B 10 These amounts shall be from the State Public School Fund created in Section 22 CRS from Federal Mineral Leasing revenues transferred to the state public school fund 11 pursuant to sections 22 1 and 34 5.4, a, 2, CRS. C. 12 of this amount, $1,334,183,145 shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6-2, CRS. D13 of this amount, $1,010,525,540 shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, A, of article 9 of the state constitution and $238,223,094 shall be from the state. 14 public school fund created in section 22-54-114, 1, CRS. Of the amount appropriated from the state education fund, an estimated $213,273,564 is from the kids matter account 15 created in the state education fund pursuant to section 22-55-103 6 b crs pursuant to section 17 3 of article 9 of the state constitution appropriations from the portion of 16 the state education fund that is not the kids matter account are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article x of the state constitution page 76 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar e1 this amount shall be from the contingency reserve fund created in section 22-54-117-1 crs 23b categorical programs for one district programs required by statute five special education programs for six 603 million 288 134 93 million 572 347 306 million 955 382 children with disabilities a 191 090 b 202 569 315 c 7 1.0 fte 99.0 fte 8 english language proficiency 9 48 million 273 896 3 million 100 1598 33 million 415 661 program a 11 7 56 6 37 i d 10 4.6 fte 11 651 million 562 030 12 a 13 these amounts shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State 14 Constitution, appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. B. 15 This amount shall be from federal funds transferred from the Department of Human Services. Page 77 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. c1 this amount shall be from federal funds authorized pursuant to the federal individuals with disabilities education act d2 this amount shall be from federal funds authorized pursuant to title 3 of the federal no child left behind act of 2001 345 2 other categorical programs 675 270 078 36 922 227 38 309 686 public school transportation a 38 165 b 7 2.0 fte 8 transfer to the department of 9 higher education for 10 distribution of state assistance 11 for career and technical 12 32 million 689 057 17 million 792 850 14 million 896 207 education c 13 special education programs for 14 17 million 8 151 877 5 million 500 012 million 351 877 gifted and talented children c 15 1.5 fte page 78 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds expelled and at risk student 2947303957888073684232 services grant program C3 1 FTE for 1 Small Attendant Center Aid C5 Comprehensive Health 6,1,115,829,300,815,829 Education C7, 1.0 FTE, 8,138,6,428,9 A 10 of this amount, $37,859,686 shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution and $450,000 shall be from the public school 11 transportation fund created in Section 22-51-103, 1. CRS pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State Constitution, appropriations from the State Education Fund are not 12 subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. B, 13, this amount shall be transferred from the Department of Public Health and Environment, from the Electrifying School Buses Grant Program Cash Fund created in Section July 25, 1405, 14, 1, CRS. c 15 these amounts shall be from the state education fund created in section 17 4 a of article 9 of the state constitution pursuant to section 17 3 of article 9 of the state 16 constitution appropriations from the state education fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article x of the state constitution page 79 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$1-2-c federal and other direct support 3 appropriated sponsored 4 260,703,874 7,503,302 programs a 253,200, 572, i, 5, 2.5 fte, 58.8 fte, 6 a 7 of this amount, $5,000,000, i, shall be from custodial funds received from Department of Law, and $2,503,302 shall be from various grants and donations. 8 9 D Nutrition 10 1 Healthy School Meals for All Program 11 1,020,706 1,020,706 Program Administration A 12,4.9 FTE 13 148,200,148,200,000 School Meal Reimbursements A 14 18,253,845 18,253,845 Local Food Purchasing Grant A. page 80 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one local food technical assistance two five million five million grant a three eight million seven hundred ninety seven thousand one hundred thirty five eight million seven hundred ninety seven thousand one hundred thirty five wage distributions a four one hundred eighty one million two hundred seventy one thousand six hundred eighty six five a six these amounts shall be from Healthy School Meals for All program fund created in Section 22-82.9-211-2, A, CRS. 7-8, 2, Other Nutrition Programs 9-338,283,206-113,764 Federal Nutrition Programs A-338,169,442, I, 10, 0.9 FTE, 16.1 FTE, 11-State Match for School Lunch 12-2,472,644-2,472,644 program b 13 child nutrition school lunch 14 841 460 841 460 protection program c 15 296 484 296 484 start smart nutrition program d page 81 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one summer electronics benefits two 458194 229 097 2 29 097 i transfer for children 3 0 ft 0 ft e for 342 351 988 5 a 6 this amount shall be from the healthy school Meals for All Program Fund created in Section 22 CRS B7 This amount shall be from the State Public School Fund created in Section 22-54-114,1, CRS, from interest and income earned on the investment of money in the Public School 8 Fund that is credited to the State Public School Fund pursuant to Section 22-41-102,3,G, CRS. C9 This amount shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State Constitution, 10 appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. D11 This amount shall be from the Start Smart Nutrition Program Fund created in Section 22-82.7-105, 1, CRS. 1213 e public school capital construction 14 division of public school 15 1925 631 1925 630 capital construction assistance a 16 16.0 fte page 82 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one public school capital 2 construction assistance board 3 150 million 150 million lease payments before public school capital 5 construction assistance board cash grants 14 6 107 million 443 thousand 107 for 43 000 a 7 financial assistance priority 8 329 801 329 801 assessment a 9 state aid for charter school 10 43 million 5 699 43 million 5 699 facilities c 11 302 million 704 130 12 a 13 these amounts shall be from the public school capital construction assistance fund created in section 22-43.7-104-1, CRS. B14 This amount shall be from the public school capital construction assistance fund created in section 22-43.7-104-1, CRS. Of this amount, $75 million shall be from matching 15 money paid to the state by entities that use the facilities that have been financed pursuant to sections 22-43.7-104-2, B, 4, and 22-43.7-110, 2, C, CRS, and $75 million shall be 16 from other money credited to the fund pursuant to section 22-43.7-104-2, CRS, and excludes matching money paid to the state pursuant to section 22-43.7-104-2, B, for CRS Page 83 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ See one of this amount, $24,184,499 shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, A, of article 9 of the state constitution $13 million shall be from the charter school 2 facilities assistance account pursuant to section 22-43.7-104, 2, D, 2, CRS and $5,821,200 shall be from the charter school facilities assistance account pursuant to section 22, 343.7-104, 2, D, I, CRS The Charter School Facilities Assistance Account is created in Section 22-43.7-104, 2, D, I, as an account within the Public School Capital Construction for Assistance Fund. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State Constitution, appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending 5 set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. 67, F, indirect cost assessment 8 4,493,429, 550,469 indirect cost assessment a 128,142,B3,814,818,I,9 A 10 of this amount, $420,929 shall be from the public school capital construction assistance fund created in section 22-43.7-104,1,CRS, $104,540 shall be from the healthy school Okay. 11 meals for all program fund created in section 22-82.9-211, 2, A, CRS, and $25,000 shall be from various grants and donations. B12 This amount shall be transferred from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing from the Education Subdivision of the Transfers to Other State Department Medicaid funded 13 Programs Division. 14-15-7,462,871,561,16 Page 84 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 2 3 4 educator talent 4 3,769,810,819,734,2,950,076,i Office of Professional Services A5, 5.0 FTE, 22.2 FTE, 6 Educator Effectiveness and 73,815,807, 3,657,616, 158,191 Recruitment Administration B8, 17.2 FTE, 1.0 FTE, 9 Quality Teacher Recruitment 10, 2,800,000, 2,800,000 Program 11 Educator Recruitment and 12 Retention Program, Financial 13, 5,000,000, 5,000,000 Assistance 14,250,000, 250,000 School Leadership Pilot Program 15, 1.2 FTE. Page 85 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1 teacher degree apprenticeship 2 106,844 106,844 program 3 1.0 FTE for 15,742,461 5 a 6 this amount shall be from the educator licensure cash fund created in section 22-60.5-112 1. CRS. B7. This amount shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State Constitution, 8 appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. 9, 10, 11, 5, Student Learning 12, A, Learning Supports, Intervention, and Planning 13 Preschool to Post-Secondary 14, 800, 1, 895, 40,046, 761, 849 Education Alignment to 15 0.5 FTE 3.5 FTE page 86 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar content specialists 15 1 624 757 37 259 587 498 a 2 0.3 FTE 5.0 FTE 3 English language learners 4 457,565,394,205,63,360 technical assistance a 5, 4.5 FTE, 0.5 FTE. 6 Working group for identification 7 of an educational support for 8 40,616 40,616 students with dyslexia 9 parents encouraging parents 10 50,000 50,000 conferences 11 30,000 942 30,000 942 restraint complaint 12 0.3 FTE. 13 110 130 110 130 school climate 14 1.0 FTE page 87 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ one legal representation for due to process complaints pursuant to three 20,000 20,000 section 22-20-108 3 CRS for math educator training in 5 491 262 491 262 improvement planning 6 3 fte 7 expulsion hearing officer 8 118 935 118 935 training and support 9 1 fte 10 2 746 100 211 a 12 these amounts shall be from the state education fund created in section 17 4 a of article 9 of the state constitution Pursuant to section 17 3 of article 9 of the state 13 constitution appropriations from the state education fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article X of the state constitution 14 15 16. Page 88 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1. B. Early literacy 2. Early literacy program 3. Administration and technical 4. 1,880,877 1,880,877 support a 5, 9.3 FTE 6. Early literacy competitive grant 7. 8,500,000 8,500,000 program B. 8. Early literacy program evidence 9. Based training provided to 10. 1,807,103 11,3.5 FTE 12 Early Literacy Program External 13,750,750,000 Evaluation A 14 Early Literacy Program Public 15,307,298 307,298 Information Campaign A 16,0.5 FTE Page 89 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal Total General Fund Cash funds Reappropriated funds Federal funds $$$$$ 1 Early Literacy Program per Pupil 2 26,261,551 26,261,551 Intervention Program 3 Early Literacy Assessment Tool 4 2,997,072 2,997,072 Program 5 4 2,5 103,901 6 7 These amounts shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State 8 Constitution, appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. B. 9 of this amount, $4,756,829 shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in Section 39-28.8-501, 1, CRS, and $3,743,171 shall be from the State Education Fund created 10 in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to section 17, 3, of article 9 of the state constitution, appropriations from the state education fund are not subject 11 to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article X of the state constitution 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Page 90 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1. C. Facility Schools 2. Facility Schools Office, Facility 3. School Board, and Facility 4. School Technical Assistance 5. 910,934. 910,934. Center a 6, 8.6 FTE. 72,054,707 2,054,707 State school funding 8,33,343,020 3,343,020 facility school funding 9,36,308,661 10,11 These amounts shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State 12 Constitution, appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. 13 14 81 558 664 15 16 Page 91 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 6 School Quality and Support 2 A Accountability and Transformation 3 Longitudinal Analyses of Student 4 726 726 Assessment Results 5 5 FTE 6 Accountability and Improvement 7 2 1 1 Planning 8, 7.5 FTE, 10.0 FTE 9 School Transformation Grant 10 8,137,202 6,114,491 2,022,711 Programma 11, 2.8 FTE, 1.2 FTE 12 Federal School Transformation 13 769725 Administration and Support 769, 725, 14, 4.2 FTE, 15 25,000 25,000 Educator Perception 16 12,445,349 Page 92 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$ 1.2 This amount shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State Constitution, three appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. 4.5.B. Schools of choice 6 10,712,377,385,877,10,326,500, I. Schools of choice 7, 2.8 FTE, 4.0 FTE, 8. Supplemental online education 9 1,220,000 1,220,000 services a 10. Office of online and hybrid 11 582,191 49,628 532,563 learning and innovation schools B. 12.0.5 FTE, 4.3 FTE, 13. 12,514,568-14-15 this amount shall be from the state public school fund created in section 22-54-114-1 crs from federal mineral leasing revenues transferred to the state public school fund 16 pursuant to sections 22-54-114-1 and 34-63-102 5.4 a 2 crs page 93 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. B1 This amount shall be from the State Education Fund created in Section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to Section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State Constitution, two appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in Section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. 3 4 24,959,917, 5 6 7 7, Student Pathways 8, A, Health and Wellness 9 SB 97-101 Public School 10 188,112 Health Services 188,112 A11,1.4 FTE 12 Behavioral Health Care 13 Professional Matching Grant 14 11,999,647 11,999,647 Program B15,4.0 FTE Page 94 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 Mental Health Education 2 Resource Bank and Technical 352,387 52,387 Assistance 4, 0.6 FTE 5 12,240,146 6a 7 This amount shall be from Medicaid funds transferred from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing from the Education Subdivision of the Transfers to Other State 8 Department Medicaid Funded Programs Division B 9 This amount shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in section 39-28.8-501 1 CRS 10 11 B Office of Dropout Prevention and Student Re-Engagement 12 2 million 7000 157 2 million 7157 dropout prevention a 13 1 fte 14 9th grade success grant 15 2 million 12553 2 million 12553 program b 16 1 fte page 95 house bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1 HB 22 to 1374 support for foster 274,074 74,074 care students 3, 0.6 FTE, 4 1 042 337 1 042 337 Educational Stability Grant 5 3.0 FTE 6 HB 24 to 1 216 Supports for Youth 7 81 278 81 278 in Juvenile Justice System 8 0.5 FTE 9 HB 24 to 1 331 Out of School 10 3 464 131 3 464 131 Time Grant Program 11 1.6 FTE 12 HB 24 to 1 403 Homeless Student 13 28,123 28,123 scholarship program 14 0.2 fte 15 8,709,653 16 page 96 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar a one this amount shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501 1 crs b2 this amount shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, a, of article 9 of the state constitution. Pursuant to section 17, 3, of article 9 of the state constitution, three appropriations from the state education fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article X of the state constitution. 4.5, c, career readiness 6 post-secondary workforce 7 1,169,295,482,217,687,078 readiness Administration A 8, 4.0 FTE 9 285,911 285,911 College and Career Readiness 10, 2.7 FTE 11 School Counselor Corps Grant 12 11,039,840 11,039,840 Program A 13, 2.0 FTE 14 Post-Secondary Workforce 15,9759,112 4,291,366 5,467,746 Readiness Startup for LEPs A. Page 97 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 Post-secondary workforce 2 12,700, 2,625 12,700, 2,625 Readiness sustained for LEPs 3 9,193,475 Federal adult education support 9,193,475,4,8.9 FTE 5 Adult Education and Literacy 6 1,971,512 1,971,512 Grant Program 7, 2.3 FTE, 846,121,779 Attend these amounts shall be from the State Education Fund created in section 17, 4, A, of Article 9 of the State Constitution. Pursuant to section 17, 3, of Article 9 of the State 11 Constitution, appropriations from the State Education Fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution. 12 13 67 million 71 569 14 15 page 98 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 8 library programs 2 1 million 348 631 million 81 217 267 413 administration a 3 11.8 FTE, 2.5 FTE, 4 3,611,418 Federal Library Funding 3,611,418,5,24.8 FTE, 6 1,150,000 1,150,000 Colorado Library Consortium 7 379,790 359,796 20,000 Colorado Virtual Library at 8356,201 96,146 260,000 and 55 Colorado Talking Book Library B9, 2.7 FTE, Reading Services for the Blind 1610 860,000 C11 State Grants to Publicly 12,997,485 2,997,485 Supported Libraries Program 1355,327 Indirect Cost Assessment 55, 327, 14, 10,758,857, 15 Page 99 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ A 1 These amounts shall be from grants and donations. B 2 This amount shall be from money appropriated from the Colorado Telephone Users with Disabilities Fund to the Department of Regulatory Agencies for the Colorado Talking Book 3 Library, pursuant to section 40-17-104-1-b-3-CRS. C4 This amount shall be from money appropriated from the Colorado Telephone Users with Disabilities Fund to the Department of Regulatory Agencies, to be credited to the Reading 5 Services for the Blind Cash Fund created in section 24-90-105.5-5-5-CRS, pursuant to section 40-17-104-1-b-2-CRS. 6-7-9, School for the Deaf and the Blind 8, School operations 9 14 752 252 personal services 10 156.1 FTE 11 1 million 484 552 early intervention services 12 10.0 FTE 13 86 710 shift differential 14 694 291 operating expenses 15 49 431 vehicle lease payments. Page 100 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 745,981 utilities 2 allocation of state and federal 3 192,800 categorical program funding 4 0.4 FTE 5 Medicaid reimbursements for 6 452,976 public school health services 7 2.0 FTE 818,458,993 15,772,714 2,686,279 A9 A 10 of this amount, $1,905,649 shall be transferred from the state school funding line item appropriation in the student learning section of this department. $452,976 shall be transferred 11 from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing from the Education. Subdivision of the Transfers to Other State Department Medicaid Funded Programs Division, $192,800 12 shall be transferred from various line items in the school district operations section of this department $101,053 shall be from the federal nutrition programs line item appropriation 13 in the school district operations section of this department and $33,801 shall be from the school meal reimbursements line item appropriation in the school district operations section 14 of this department 1516 page 101 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$1,b. B. Special purpose 2 120,000 fees and conferences 3 1 million outreach services 4, 6.2 FTE, 5 tuition from out-of-state 6 200,000 student 7 1 million grants 8, 6.0 FTE, 9 2,320,000 1 0 70,000 A 1, 2 50,000 B 10 11 of this amount $750,000 shall be from fees collected from school districts, boards of cooperative services, and private entities for the purposes of outreach services, $200,000 shall 12 be from tuition payments received from other states, and $120,000 shall be from fees and charges for workshops and conferences. B 13 This amount shall be from various sources of federal funds transferred from the school district operations section of this department 14 15 20 178 993 Page 102 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one two ten charter school institute three state charter school institute for administration oversight and five five million management five zero zero zero I. A. 6. 11.7 FTE. 7. Institute Charter School 8. 1,800,000 1,800,000 Assistance Fund B. 9. Other transfers to Institute 10. 21,500,000 Charter Schools 21,500,000 I. C. 11. Transfer of federal money to 12. 17,400,000 Institute Charter School 17,400,000 I. C. 13. 4.5 FTE. 1456,658,283,23,304,663,33,353,620 CSI. mill levy equalization d page 103 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one department implementation of two section 22-30.5-501 e seek three 243 362 crs 243 362 a 4 1.6 fte 5 102 million 601 645 6 a 7 these amounts shall be transferred from the state share of district's total program funding line item appropriation in the school district operations section of this department. b8 This amount shall be from the institute charter school assistance fund created in section 22-30.5-515.5-1, CRS. c9 These amounts shall be transferred from various line items in the school district operations section of this department. d10 This amount shall be from the state education fund created in section 17, 4, a, of article 9 of the state constitution. Pursuant to section 17, 3, of article 9 of the state 11 constitution, appropriations from a state education fund are not subject to the limitation on fiscal year spending set forth in section 20 of article x of the state constitution 12 13 14 totals part 4 15 7 billion 865 million 396 771 dollars 4 billion 587 million 560 682 dollars education a 2 billion 371 million 461 thousand and 10 billion dollars dollar 56 340 311 c dollar 850 034 768 d page 104 house bill 26 to 1410 department of education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar one or two of this amount one billion three hundred thirty four million one hundred eighty one thousand one hundred forty five dollars shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6 2 crs b3 of this amount ten million one hundred twenty three thousand eight $822 contains an I annotation. C4 of this amount, $43,900,000 contains an I annotation. D5 this amount contains an I annotation. 6-7 footnotes, the following statements are referenced to the numbered footnotes throughout section 2. 8-9-13 Department of Education, School District Operations, Public School Finance, Extended High School, pursuant to section 22-35-108.5, 2, b, 3, crs, 10. the purpose of this footnote is to specify what portion of this appropriation is intended to be available for the teacher recruitment education and preparation 11 trep program for fi 2026 to 27 it is the general assembly's intent that the department of education be authorized to utilize up to 2 million 680 250 dollars of this 12 appropriation to fund qualified students identified as trep program participants this amount is calculated based on an estimated 250 fte trep program 13 participants funded at a rate of 10 721 dollars per fte pursuant to section 22-54-103.5 8 crs and section 22-54-104 4.7 crs 14 1514 department of education school district operations public school Capital Construction Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board Cash Grants 16 This appropriation remains available until the completion of the project or the close of the 2028-29 state fiscal year, whichever comes first. Page 105 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. 1.15 Department of Education, Student Learning, Learning Supports, Intervention, and Planning, Content Specialists, in a year in which the department receives 2 in appropriation for biennial standards review pursuant to Section July 22, 1005, CRS, the appropriation in this line item for the biennial standards review, in 3 in amount not to exceed $118,500, remains available for expenditure until the close of the subsequent state fiscal year. For 5.16 Department of Education, Library Programs, Reading Services for the Blind, this appropriation is for the support of privately operated reading services for six the blind as authorized by section 24-90-105.5 crs it is the general assembly's intent that 615 000 of this appropriation be used to provide access to seven radio and television broadcasts of locally published and produced materials and 245 000 of this appropriation be used to provide telephone access to digital eight transmissions of nationally published and produced material page Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 part 5 2 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting 3 4 1, Office of the Governor 5 A. Governor's Office 6 Administration of Governors 7 6,619,924 6,012,928 67,908 Office and Residence of 539,088 B. 8. 44.4 FTE 9 19,519,500 Discretionary Fund 10 263,266 263,266 Mansion Activity Fund C. 11 464,286 464,286 Office of Climate Preparedness 12. 3.0 FTE 13 7,366,976 14 of 15 this amount shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501 1. CRS. Page 107 House Bill 26 to 1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. Be one of this amount, $441,004 shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries collected by the Office of Information Technology and $98,084 shall be from statewide indirect cost 2 recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401-2 CRS. C3 This amount shall be from rental fees for events using mansion facilities or the governor's mansion maintenance fund created in section 24-30-1303.8-1 CRS. For 5, B, special purpose 65,989,787, 2,411,052,391,444 health, life, and dental a 344,947, B. 842, 346, I. 726,806, 11,611, 9,906 Short-Term Disability A. 1, 568, B. 3, 721, I. 8 Paid Family and Medical Leave 9, 173,741, 74,642, 65,096 Insurance A. 10, 082, B. 23, 921, I. 10 Unfunded Liability 11 3 million 870 thousand 914 1 million 668 thousand 709 1 million 446 thousand 585 amortization payments at 2 24 0 41 b 5 31 5 79 i 12 429 thousand 700 2 182 thousand 730 162 thousand 371 step pay at 25 0 84 b 59 5 17 i 13 700 thousand 300 1 397 thousand and 84 262 thousand 603 para direct distribution of 4614 B 1456 49 7 workers compensation B 15 2 2 legal services Page 108 House Bill 26 to 1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. 1. Payment to Risk Management 234,412,5,077,29,335 and Property Funds B3,862,361,215,051,647,310 Capital Complex Lease Space B4,2,236,906,2,236,906 Payments to OIT 5,134,880,16,146,19,568 Core Operations A80,090 B19,076,I, 6 4 673 indirect cost assessment for 673 b 7 16 million 845 961 8 and 9 of these amounts 22 617 dollars shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501 1 crs and 4 million 334 956 dollars shall be from various sources of cash funds b 10 of these amounts 453 022 dollars shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries collected by the colorado department of transportation 409 697 dollars shall be from statewide indirect cost 11 recoveries collected by the office of information technology 312 796 dollars shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 12 24 75 1401 2 crs 238 824 dollars shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries collected by the colorado secretary of state and 615 dollars shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries 13 or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24 75 1401 2 crs 14 15 16 page 109 house bill 26 to 1410 governor lieutenant governor state planning and budgeting appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 c colorado energy office 27939128 4307442 3631 686 i program administration 3 29.0 fte for 11,524,618 11,524,618 i low-income energy assistance a 5 4.5 fte 6 energy performance for 7 1,300,300,000 i buildings b 8 2.0 fte 9 electric vehicle charging 10 1,036,204 1 036 204 i station grant c 11 appropriation to 12 decarbonization tax credits 13 1,083,574 1,083,574 cash fund d 14 3.1 FTE 15992709 992709 Streamline Solar Permitting E 161752848 17005952 Legal Services Page 110 House Bill 26-1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting Appropriation from Item and Subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 7 749 7 749 vehicle lease payments 2 414 661 414 661 lease space 3 313 272 55 879 indirect cost assessment f 257 393 i for 19 760 850 19 760 850 i community access enterprise g5 3.7 fte 6 community access enterprise 7 11 397 11 397 i legal services g8 building decarbonization 9 2946 504 2946 504 enterprise h 10 1.4 fte 11 building decarbonization 12 53 496 53 496 enterprise legal services h 13 49 137 010 14 a 15 this amount shall be from the colorado energy office low income energy assistance fund created in section 40-8.7-112-3-A, CRS. This amount is shown for informational 16 purposes only because the Colorado Energy Office Low Income Energy Assistance Fund is continuously appropriated to the office pursuant to section 40-8.7-112-3-A, CRS. Page 111 House Bill 26-1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. B1 This amount shall be from the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Fund created in section 24-38.5-102.6-1, CRS. This amount is shown for informational purposes only 2 because the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Fund is continuously appropriated to the office pursuant to section 24-38.5-102.6-2, CRS. C3 This amount shall be from the Electric Vehicle Grant Fund created in section 24-38.5-103-1, A, I, CRS. This amount is shown for informational purposes only because the Electric 4 Vehicle Grant Fund is continuously appropriated to the office pursuant to Section 24-38.5-103-2, CRS D5 This amount shall be from the Decarbonization Tax Credits Administration Cash Fund created in Section 24-38.5-122, CRS E6 This amount shall be from the Streamlined Solar Permitting and Inspection Cash Fund created in Section 24-38.5-119-7, A, I, CRS F7 This amount shall be from various sources of cash funds G8 These amounts shall be from the Community Access Enterprise Fund created in Section 24-38.5-3035, A, CRS The amounts are shown for informational purposes only because 9 The Community Access Enterprise Fund is continuously appropriated to the office pursuant to Section 24-38.5-3035, A, CRS H10 These amounts shall be from the Building Decarbonization Enterprise Cash Fund created in Section 24-38.5-125, A, CRS 11-12-73-349-947-13-14-15 Page 112 House Bill 26-1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting Appropriation from Item and Subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$ 1, 2, Office of the Lieutenant Governor 2 553,711 553,711 Administration 3, 4.0 FTE 4,875 2,875 Discretionary Fund 5 514,741 513,557 1,184 Commission of Indian Affairs a 6, 4.0 FTE, 7 Commission on Community 8 1,227,224,477,224,750,000 Service B9, 2.0 FTE, 10 2,298,551,11 a 12 This amount shall be from private donations. B13 This amount shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in section 39-28.8-501, 1, CRS. 14.15. Page 113 House Bill 26 to 1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 2 3 Office of State Planning and Budgeting 3 4,194,338,2,084,086,2,110,252 Personal Services a 4 FTE 5 105 Operating expenses a 6 Economic forecasting 7 16 Subscription 16 A 8 Evidence policymaking 9 150 Evaluation and support B 10 Infrastructure investment and 11 20,250,20,250 Jobs Act match funding C 12, 4.0 FTE 13 24,716,603 14 of 15 these amounts shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries collected by the colorado department of transportation page 114 house bill 26 to 1410 governor lieutenant governor state planning and budgeting appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar b1 this amount shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1 crs c2 this amount shall be from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act cash fund created in section 24-75-232-3, CRS. 345-4, Economic Development Programme 62588871 1852 599 720 272, I, Administration a 16 000 i 7 7.3 ft 8 10 978 10 978 vehicle lease payments 9 535 721 535 721 lease space 10 535 674 230 566 573 626 global business development b 175 000 c 374 478 i 11 26.4 ft 12 1 127 7995-377995-750,000 Office of Outdoor Recreation D13, 3.0 FTE, 14149844741375431 Leading Edge Program Grants E. Page 115 House Bill 26-1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. 1. Small Business Development 2. 1,762,347,211,284,802,I. Centers 3, 4.0 FTE, for Colorado Office of Film. 5. 1,457,819,742,750,715,069 Television and Media. F6, 5.0 FTE, 7. Colorado Promotion. Colorado 8 753 834 237 834 516,000 Welcome Centers G 9 3.3 FTE 10 Colorado Promotion Other 11 17 676 743 743 933 932 810 Program Costs G 12 4.0 FTE 13 Destination Development 14 1,094 181 494 181 600,000 Program G Page 116 House Bill 26 to 1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting Appropriation from item and subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$ 1 Economic Development 2 Commission, General 3 Economic Incentives and 4 6,199,224 5,979,224,220,000, I, Marketing H5, 7.0 FTE 6 Colorado First Customized Job 7 1,277,181 1,277,181 Training 8 13,500 Capco Administration 13,500 I 9 0.3 FTE 10 4 2 Council on Creative Industries J 167 J 765 I 11 4 FTE 12 15 15 210 I Advanced Industries k 13 2 fte 14 39 433 39 433 rural jumpstart 15 0 fte page 117 house bill 26 to 1410 governor lieutenant governor state planning and budgeting appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$$1-724,196-571-196-153,000 Rural Opportunity Office L2, 5.5 FTE, 3-236,446-236,446 Employee Ownership Office 4, 1.8 FTE, 5-320,539-320,539 Indirect Cost Assessment M661,547,025-7-8 This amount shall be from various sources of cash funds. This amount is shown for informational purposes only because a portion of these funds come from continuously appropriated 9 cash funds. B. 10 of this amount, an estimated $175,000 shall be from the Advanced Industries Export Acceleration Cash Fund created in Section 24-47-103-8, A, CRS, an estimated $50,000 shall 11 be from the Minority Business Fund created in Section 24-49.5-104, 1, CRS, and an estimated $348,626 shall be from various fees collected from participants in activities conducted 12 by the division. C. 13 This amount shall be from the Advanced Industries line item appropriation in this office D. 14 This amount shall be from the Outdoor Recreation Economic Development cash fund created in Section 24-48.5-129, 4, CRS E. 15 This amount shall be from fees, small business development centers activities, and grants and donations Page 118 House Bill 26-1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. F1 This amount shall be from the Colorado Office of Film, Television, and Media Operational Account Cash Fund created in Section 24-48.5-116-5-A, CRS. G2 These amounts shall be from the Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund created in Section 24-49.7-106-1, CRS. H3 This amount shall be from the Procurement Technical Assistance Cash Fund created in Section 24-48.5-121-8, A, CRS. This amount is shown for informational purposes only for because the Procurement Technical Assistance Cash Fund is continuously appropriated to the office pursuant to Section 24-48.5-121-8-B, CRS. I-5 This amount shall be transferred from the Department of Regulatory Agencies from a transfer to Capco line item appropriation. J-6 These amounts shall be from the Creative Industries Cash Fund created in Section 24-48.5-301-2, CRS. K-7 This amount shall be from the Advanced Industries Acceleration Cash Fund created in Section 24-48.5-117-7, a, CRS This amount is shown for informational purposes only 8. Because the Advanced Industries Acceleration Cash Fund is continuously appropriated to the office pursuant to Section 24-48.5-117, 7, C, I, CRS L-9 This amount shall be from unspent grant funds appropriated to the Rural Opportunity Office M-10 This amount shall be from various sources of cash funds 11-12-5, Office of Information Technology 13, A, OIT Central Administration 142818112319432262500, I, Central Administration A 23-737-897B15, 6.5 FTE, 117.5 FTE. Page 119 House Bill 26-1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. and 1118 both drugs 1 and 10 p 137 300 77 Health Life and Dental C 18 603 B 290 1507 Short-term disability C. 88, 518 B. 3 Paid family and medical leave for 578,043, 10,103, 1,658 Insurance C. 566, 282 B. 5 Unfunded liability 6,12,896,470, 215,349, 35,735 amortization payment c 12 645 386 b 7 1 million 355 554 22 383 166 step pay c 1 330 0 0 8 b 8 2 million 397 510 40 041 6651 para direct distribution c 2 350 8 18 b 9 258 390 shift differential 258 390 b 10 175 786 workers compensation 175 786 b 11 339 670 25 951 313 719 legal services b 12 payment to risk management 13 192 220 and property funds 192 220 b 14 474 197 lease space 474 197 b 15 786 713 capital complex lease space 786 713 b Page 120 House Bill 26 to 1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting Appropriation from Item and Subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$$ 1 188,827 Core Operations 188,827 B2 1,119,804 Indirect Cost Assessment 1,119,804 B3 67,772,111 4A5 this amount shall be from the technology risk prevention and response fund created in section 24-37.5-120-2, CRS. This amount is shown for informational purposes only because 6 the technology risk prevention and response fund is continuously appropriated to the office pursuant to section 24-37.5-120-4, CRS. B7 these amounts shall be from user fees collected from other state agencies and deposited in the information technology revolving fund created in section 24-37.5-103-3, A, 8 CRS. C9 these amounts shall be from various sources of cash funds. 10 11 220,942,837 3,126,164,87,648,b, Enterprise Solutions at 217,329,029,b12,11.7,FTE,2.0,FTE,468.5,FTE,13. Page 121 House Bill 26 to 1410 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Planning and Budgeting. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. A one of this amount, $453,812 shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in Section 39-28.8-501-1, CRS, $9,200 shall be from the Mobile Home Park Act Dispute Resolution 2 and Enforcement Program Cash Fund created in Section 38-12-1110-1, CRS, $6,784-1, shall be from the Broadband Administration Fund created in Section 24-37.5-905-3, CRS, $3,2328 shall be from user fees collected from various local governments and deposits. in the Information Technology Revolving Fund. Created in Section 24-37.5-103-3, CRS, 4 and $15,524 shall be from various sources of cash funds. Appropriations from the Broadband Administration Fund are shown for informational purposes only as the fund is continuously 5 appropriated to the department pursuant to Section 24-37.5-905-3, A, CRS. B6 These amounts shall be from user fees collected from other state agencies and deposited in the Information Technology Revolving Fund created in section 24-37.5-1033, CRS. 7. 824,857,141, C. Information Security 24-857-141, a. 9, 77.0 FTE, 10 a. 11 This amount shall be from user fees collected from other state agencies and deposited in the Information Technology Revolving Fund created in section 24-37.5-103, 3, A, CRS. 1213, D, Colorado benefits 1420,593,400 management system 20, 588, 827, A, 4, 573, I, 15 a. 16 This amount shall be from fees collected from user agencies and deposited in the information technology revolving fund created in section 24-37.5-1033 a crs page 122 house bill 26 to 1410 governor lieutenant governor state planning and budgeting appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one two e customer service and 360 million 817 758 336,248 60,481,510 support a 4, 2.0 FTE, 363.0 FTE, 5 a 6 this amount shall be from fees collected from user agencies and deposited in the information technology revolving fund created in section 24 dash 37.5 dash 103, 3, CRS. 7 8 394,983,247,910 11 totals part 5 12 governor 13 lieutenant governor 14 state planning and 15 556 million 895 373 dollars 54 million 450 462 dollars 103 million 346 189 dollar budgeting a 391 million 231 557 billion dollars 7 867 165 c 16 page 123 house bill 26 to 1410 governor lieutenant governor state planning and budgeting appropriation from item and and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ A 1 of this amount, $51,722,063 contains an I annotation. B 2 of this amount, $720,272 contains an I annotation. C 3 this amount contains an I annotation. 4 Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 part 6 2 department of health care policy and financing 3 4 1 executive directors office 5 a general administration 681 million 750 783 personal services 7 832.6 fte 8 17 million 195 350 health life and dental 9 64 111 short-term disability 10 paid family and medical leave 11 412 155 insurance 12 unfunded liability 13 9 159 038 amortization payments 14 233 3027 step pay 15 1623 195 para direct distribution page 125 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 370 746 workers compensation 2 4 172 751 operating expenses 3 4 623 191 legal services 4. Administrative Law Judge 5. 2,300,449 Services 6. Payment to Risk Management 7. 100. 46,540 and Property Funds 8. 3,793,205 Lease Space 9. 11,849,683 Payments to OIT 10. Information Technology 11. 20,000 Accessibility 12. 169,587 Core Operations 13. General Professional Services 14. 57 and special projects 15 108 18 635 164 a 3 875 116 b 100 526 712 i Page 126 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1-2 of this amount, $17,065,531 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4-5, A, CRS, $457,583 3 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Nursing Facility Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4, 5.5, A, CRS, $319,082 shall be from the Adult 4 dental fund created in section 25.5-5-207-4, CRS, $233,153 shall be from the primary care fund created in section 24-22-117-2, B, I, CRS, $150,243 shall be from the nursing 5 home penalty cash fund created in section 25.5-6-205, 3, A, CRS, $141,065 shall be from the provider stabilization fund created in section 25.5-3-603-1 crs 116 300 6 shall be from the health-related social needs reinvestment cash fund created in section 25.5-5-340 2 a crs 68 159 dollars shall be from the health care affordability and sustainability seven intermediate care facility fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 5.7 c.r.s comma dollar 57 542 shall be from the breast and cervical cancer prevention and treatment fund created eight in section 25.5-5-308-8 a i crs and 26 506 dollars shall be from the re-entry services for justice involved individuals reinvestment cash fund created in section 25.5-4-505.7 2 9 crs be 10 of this amount 1 million 404 123 dollars shall be transferred from the department of Human Services from the Healthcare and Economic Security Staff Development Center line item appropriation, $11,881,600 shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries, $834,945 shall be transferred from the Colorado Benefits Management System, Healthcare and Economic Security Staff 12 Development Center line item appropriation in this department, $575,371 shall be transferred from the Department of Higher Education. From the fee-for-service contracts with state 13 institutions for speciality education programs line item, $95,290 shall be from the Department of Personnel and Administration, $57,442 shall be from the Department of Early Childhood $14 and $26,345 shall be from the Department of Public Health and Environment from the Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Food Grant line item 15-16 Page 127 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1. B. Information Technology Contracts and Projects 2. Medicaid Management 3. Information System 4. 125,510,082. 16,739,086. 9,904,623. Maintenance and Projects at 12,204. B. 98, 8. 54, 169. I. 5. Colorado Benefits Management 6. Systems, Operating and Contract Expenses 17, 18, 7. 97, 075,104. 12, 874, 280, M. 7, 351, 992. C. 29, 973. 053 D 46,875,779 8 Colorado Benefits Management 9 Systems, Health Care and 10 Economic Security Staff Development Center 17 18 11 2 714 for 64 M 358 144 E 73 B 1 12 Office of E Health Innovations 13 10 2 664 Operations E6 896 095 14 3 FTE 159 3 690 All Claims Database E5 271 853 I 16 244 Page 128 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from Item and Subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$$ 1-2 of this amount, $9,306,722 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4-5, CRS, and $597,901.3 shall be from the Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-1-109, CRS. Before these amounts shall be transferred from the Old Age Pension State Medical Program line item appropriation in the Other Medical Services Division of this department. C5 of this amount, $7,271,992 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4, 5, A, CRS, and $80,000 SIC shall be from an intergovernmental transfer from the Regional Transportation District. D7 of this amount, $29,240,196 shall be transferred from the Department of Human Services, $560,254 shall be transferred from the Department of Early Childhood, $126,334 shall be. 8. Transferred from the Department of Public Health and Environment, $44,617 shall be from the Department of Labor and Employment, and $1,652 shall be transferred from the Old Age. 9. Pension State Medical Program line item appropriation in the Other Medical Services Division of this department. E. 10. These amounts shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4-5, CRS. 11-12-c, Eligibility Determinations and Client Services 13 contracts for special eligibility 14 6,969,977-2071-071-m. 766,678 Determinations a 4,132,228-15-149,219,456-28-31-876-m. 34,107,928 County Administration B 94,279,652 161,531,968,402,984 Medical Assistance Sites A 1, 128, 984, I. Page 129 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1 Administrative Case 2 869744-434-872, M. 434872 Management 3 3 4615191, 141090, M. 589670 Customer Outreach 1 730759 4 Centralized Eligibility Vendor 5 7959455 2 753409 Contract Projecta 5 206 046 I. 6 Connect for Health Colorado 7 11,174,846, 4,995,156 Eligibility Determination C6, 179, 690, I. 8 Eligibility Overflow Processing 9 1,904,677, 313, 938, M. 162,231 Center A 1,428,508, 10 3,298,808, 1,017, 871, M. 212,856 Returned Mail Processing A 1,11, 942, D. 1 income verification programs a 9 non medical 13 4,024,327 1,222,150 M 790,013 transportation broker a 2,012,164 14,202,950,665 15 a 16 these amounts shall be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4-5, CRS. Page 130 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. Be one of this amount, $23,350,892, I, shall be from local funds and $10,757,036 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in 2 Section 25.5-4-402.4-5, CRS. C3 This amount represents public funds certified as expenditures incurred by Connect for Health Colorado that are eligible for federal financial participation under the Medicaid program. D4 Of this amount, $111,929 shall be transferred from the Department of Human Services from the Colorado Benefits Management System, Ongoing Expenses line item and $13 shall 5 be transferred from the Old Age Pension State Medical Program line item appropriation in the Other Medical Services Division of this department. 67 D Utilization and Quality Review Contracts 833,557,135,8,774,210,M, 2,159,218 Professional Services Contracts at 22,623,707,9 A 10 of this amount, $2,033,593 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.45, a CRS, $88,750 shall 11b from the adult dental fund created in section 25.5-5-207-4, CRS, and $36,875 shall be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee 12 cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4, 5.5, CRS. 1314, E, provider audits and services 1517,637,028,458,493, m 430,988 professional audit contracts at 8,747,539 page 131 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one or two of this amount 418,568 dollars shall be from the health care affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 5. A. CRS. And $12,420.3 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Nursing Facility Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4, 5.5. A. CRS. 4. 5. F. Recoveries and Recoupment Contract Costs 6-1,165,841,582,920. Estate Recovery of 5-82,921. 7. Third-party Liability Costs 8-5,811,486.1,931,914. m 972163 avoidance contract b 2907409 96977327 1011 this amount shall be from estate recoveries b12 this amount shall be from the health care affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 5 a crs 1314 g indirect cost recoveries 15 881 600 277 887 indirect cost assessment a 79 5 16 b 5 24 197 i page 132 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. 1-2 of this amount, $243,707 shall be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4-5 a. CRS $12,116 shall 3 be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 5.5. A. CRS, $8,504 shall be from the adult dental 4 fund created in section 25.5-5-207. 4. CRS, $6,252 shall be from the primary care fund created in section 24-22-117. 2. B. I. CRS, $3,974 shall be from the nursing home 5 penalty cash fund created in section 25.5-6-205. 3. A. CRS, $1,778 shall be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee cash fund created six in section 25.5-4-402.4 5.7 a crs and 1,556 dollars shall be from the breast and cervical cancer prevention and treatment fund created in section 25.5-5-308 a i crs b7 of this amount 37,472 dollars shall be transferred from the department of human services from the health care and economic security staff development center line item appropriation 8 26,899 dollars shall be from transferred from the colorado benefits management system, health care and economic security staff development center line item appropriation in this nine department and $15,145 shall be transferred from the department of higher education from the fee-for-service contracts with state institutions for speciality education programs line 10 item 1112 701,591,426 13 14 15 16 page 133 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$1,2 medical services premiums to medical and long-term care three services for medicaid eligible for 15,196,700,682,4182,005,685,m individuals a 1,889,906,600 b 1,24,197,922 c 9,590,475,5 a 6 of this amount $1,334,183,145 shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6, 2, CRS. Page 134 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. be one of this amount. $1,480,180,920 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4-5, CRS, $292,208,480 shall be from recoveries and recoupments. $65,500,000 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Nursing Facility Provider Fee Cash Fund created in 3 Section 25.5-4-402.4-5.5, a crs 63 million 74 thousand nine hundred eighty six dollars shall be from the adult dental fund created in section 25.5 dash 5 dash 207 for crs dollar 59 million 278 thousand nine hundred 53 represents public funds certified as four expenditures incurred by public emergency medical transportation providers 46 million 929 thousand two hundred dollars shall be from the health care expansion fund created in section 24 dash 22 dash 117 to a i crs 5 35 million 62 thousand and The $15 shall be from the recovery audit contractor recovery cash fund created in section 25 S CRS represents public funds certified as six Expenditures incurred by public hospitals and other public agencies that are eligible for federal financial participation under the Medicaid program shall be from the Medicaid 7. Buy-in cash fund created in section 25.5-6-1404-3-B, CRS, $2-218-592-I, shall be from the Affordable Housing Support Fund created in section 29-32-103-1, CRS. $1,503,600-8 shall be from the tobacco tax cash fund created in section 24-22-117-1, CRS, and meets the requirement to appropriate a portion of the revenues collected from the imposition 9 of additional state cigarette and tobacco taxes to the old age pension program for health-related purposes pursuant to section 21 of article x of the state constitution 857 151 dollars shall 10 be from the tobacco education programs fund created in section 24-22-117 2 c i c dot r dot s comma dollar 700 000 shall be from an intergovernmental transfer from denver health 551 854 dollars shall 11 be from the breast and cervical cancer prevention and treatment fund created in section 25.5-5-308 8 a i crs and 200 460 dollars shall be from the health care affordability and 12 sustainability intermediate care facility fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 5.7 crs c 13 of this amount 112 million 280 thousand nine hundred seven dollars shall be transferred from the department of higher education from the fee for service contracts with state institutions for speciality education programs 14 line item 9 million 253 841 dollars shall be be transferred from the old age pension state medical program line item appropriation in the other medical services division of this department 1,505,000 dollars 15 shall be from the department of early childhood from the home visiting line item and 1,158,174 dollars shall be transferred from public school health services line item and the other medical 16 services division of this department page 135 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$$1-2-3, behavioral health community programs 3 behavioral health capitation for 1,801,060,293,405,993,833,m, 146,742,761 payments a 1,248,323,699,5 behavioral health fee for 613,466,8023,235,797,m. 798,870 service payments and 9,432,135,71,814,527,095,8 and 9 of these amounts. $147,501,089 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4,5,A, CRS, and $10,40,542 shall be from the breast and cervical cancer. Prevention and treatment fund created in section 25.5-5-308-8, A, I, CRS. 11-12-13-14-15. Page 136 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1.4, Office of Community Living 2, A, Division of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 3 1 Administrative costs for 3 1 858 1 611 Personal services 5 39 FTE 6281 1 64 636 M 116 Operating expenses 7 Community and contract 8 137 89 362 M 48 Management system 958 28 920 255 Support Level Administration 29 10 11 This amount shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-402.4, 5, A, I, CRS. 13, 2, Medicaid Programs 1914 15,941,328,819 Adult Comprehensive Services page 137 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 196 141 136 adult supported living services two children's extensive support three 114 million 806 756 services for children's habilitation 550 362 414 residential program 6 Case Management for People 7 179,378,435 with disabilities 8 1,382,017,566,73,503,663,M, 18,170,643,A 690,343,254,9 a 10 of this amount, $18,170,642 shall be from the Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Hospital Provider Fee Cash Fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4,5,A,I,CRS, and $1.11 shall be from the Health. Care Expansion Fund created in Section 24-22-117-2, A, I, CRS. 12, 3, State-only programs 2013-14 11,059,911 Family Support Services 15,5,198,721 State-Supported Living Services. Page 138 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1. State supported living services 2. 5,066,106 Case management preventive dental hygiene 21. 369,892 421,394,630 21,394,635 6. 1,407,359,1 143,785 5, indigent care program 9 disproportionate share hospital 10 226,610,308 113,305,154 payments a 113,305,154 i 1113,455,012 1,505,282 m 11949,730 pediatric specialty hospital 12 appropriation from tobacco 13 tax cash fund to the general 14 261,445 261,445 fund b 1532,869,099 16,558 181 186 primary care fund program c 16 310 913 i page 139 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one children's basic health plan 2 3 million 864 405 1 million 347 131 5 for 11 h administration d 2 million 511 1,863 3 children's basic health plan 4 317,477,353 50,669,008 medical and dental costs e 6513 066 h f 206,295,279 5 594,537,622 6 a 7 this amount shall be from the health care affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 5. CRS. B. 8. This amount shall be from the tobacco tax cash fund created in section 24-22-117, 1, CRS. This appropriation partially meets the requirement to appropriate a portion of the nine revenues collected from imposition of additional state cigarette and tobacco taxes to the general fund pursuant to section 21 of article x of the state constitution c10 this amount shall be from the primary care fund created in section 24 d11 this amount shall be from the health care affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4-5-a-crs e12 of this amount $261,445 shall be from general fund exempt account pursuant to section 24-22-117-1, C, I, B.5, CRS, and is not subject to the statutory limitation on general. 13 fund appropriations imposed by section 24-75-201.1, CRS. F14 of this amount, $46,077,785 shall be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4, 5, CRS. $13,952,105.15 shall be from the Children's Basic Health Plan Trust created in section 25.5-8-105, 1, CRS, $383,175 shall be from the Colorado Immunization Fund created in section April 25, 2301, 16, CRS, $100,000 shall be from recoveries and recoupments, and $1 shall be from the Health Care Expansion Fund created in section 24-22-117, 2, A, I, CRS. Page 140 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 2 6 Other medical services 3 Old age pension state medical 4 10 million 10 million program A 5 1,990,358 1,962,510 27,848 Senior Dental Program B6 Commission on Family 7 Medicine Residency Training 8 9,490,179 07,331 M 154,536 Program C 8,428,303 9 Medicare Modernization Act 10 271,406,559 271,406,559 State Contribution Payment 11 Public School Health Services 12 2 million 1 0 0 0 0 0 m 1 million contract administration 13 195 million 354 thousand 199 97 million 677 thousand 100 public school health services d 97 677 0 99 14 screening brief intervention 15 and referral to treatment training grant program 22 16 1 million 1 0 0 0 0 0 e page 141 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1. Reproductive health care for 2. Individuals not eligible for 3. 2,075,724. 2,075,724. 2,075,724. 3. Medicaid. 4. Health benefits for children. 5. Lacking access due to 6. 94,912,008. 94,912,008. Immigration status. 5,700, 50,211. 5,750,211. Abortion care. 8. Safety net provider 939,858,935,39,858,935. Stabilization payments F. 10. 633,838,164.11. 12. This amount shall be from the old age pension health and medical care fund created in section 25.5-2-101, 2, CRS. 13. This amount shall be from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Cash Fund created in section 25.5-1-109, CRS. C 14 this amount shall be transferred from the Department of Higher Education from the fee-for-service contracts with state institutions for speciality education programs line item. D 15 this amount represents funds certified as public expenditures incurred by school districts or boards of cooperative educational services that are eligible for federal financial participation 16 under Medicaid. Page 142 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total. general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar e1 this amount shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1 crs f2 this amount shall be from the provider stabilization fund created in section 25.5-3-603-1 crs 3 4 7 transfers to other state department medicaid funded programs 5 Correction 6491,640,245,820 Administration at 245,827,6517,727,3,750,994,M. 2,766,733 Reentry Services 8,7,9367,910 This amount shall be from the Reentry Services for Justice Involved Individuals Reinvestment Cash Fund created in Section 25.5-4-505.7,2. CRS. 11-12, B. Early Childhood 13 Transfer to Department of Early 14 Childhood for Early 15 5,940,111 2,970,056, M, 2,970,055 Intervention Page 143 House Bill 26 to 1,410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from Item and Subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$ 1 2 c education 3 208 269 104 135 m 104 134 public school health services 4 5 d human services 1 executive directors office 23 6 19 million 955 682 9 958 852 m 18 990 h a 9 977 847 a 8 of this amount, $12,827 shall be from the health-related social needs reinvestment cash fund created in section 25.5-5-340, 2, A, CRS, and $6,163 shall be from the re-entry 9 services for justice-involved individuals reinvestment cash fund created in section 25.5-4-505.7, 2, CRS. 10-11, 2, Office of Children, Youth and Families 12-356,117-147-414, M, 208,703 Child Welfare Administration 13-14,383, 119,237,191,615, M. 7,191,615 Child Welfare Services 14,762,131,381,067, M. 381,064 Division of Youth Services 15,1,142,323,761,549, M. 380,774 Health-Related Social Needs Page 144 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 184,352-56-235-M, 28,117 Reentry Services 216,728,153-34-3, Office of Economic Security 5-240,072-180-M, 47,820 administration a 120,006 systematic alien verification 7 157,731 78 866 m 78,865 for eligibility 8 397,731 9 a 10 this amount shall be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 a 5 crs 11 12 4 behavioral health administration 13 community behavioral health 14 952 468 476 233 m 476 Page 145 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from Item and Subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds 1 Children and Youth Mental 2 137680 68 68 Health Treatment Act 3 1 Office of Civil and Forensic 6 Mental Health 7 12 6 6 6 Mental Health Institutes 8 Mental Health Transitional 9 5 2,582,516 living homes 10 17,809,083 11 12 6 office of adults aging and disability services 13,503,562,251,781 m 251,781 administration 14 regional centers for people 15 60,843,664 28 532 930 m 1,888,903 with developmental disabilities a 30,421,831 page 146 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one community services for the two one million one thousand eight hundred five hundred nine hundred m five hundred thousand nine hundred elderly three sixty two million three hundred forty nine thousand and twenty six four a five this amount shall be from the health care affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.4 5.7 a crs 6 7 7 other eight department of human services 9 20 million 940 457 10 for 70 2 29 m 10 million 470 228 indirect cost assessment 10 11 e local affairs 12 390 508 92 709 m 102 545 administration a 195 254 13 home modifications benefit 14 1313,881 156,941, m, 156,940 Administration 15,328,282,164,141, m, 164,141 Host home regulation Page 147 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Appropriation from item and subtotal Total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds Federal funds $$$$$$ 114,810,339,532,612,m, 5,277,727 health-related social needs 2,15,843,010,3,4 This amount shall be from the health-related social needs reinvestment cash fund created in section 25.5-5-340,2,a, CRS. 567-F, Public Health and Environment 8 9405981-3, 914-134, M, 5491,847 Facility Survey and Certification 9 6472-3, 236, M, 3236 Prenatal Statistical Information 10 9412,453-1112, G, Regulatory Agencies 13 324,041-147, 369, M, 14652 Nurse Aid Certification 162,020 14 3,121 560 m 1560 sunset reviews 15 327 161 page 148 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one to this amount shall be transferred from the department of regulatory agencies from the payments to department of healthcare policy and financing line item appropriation 3 4 h revenue 5 100 000 000 h hospital tax exemptions of 50 607 this amount shall be from the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5 dash 4 dash 402.4 a 5 crs 8 9 178 million 110 651 10 11 12 totals part 6 13 health care policy and financing 24 14 20 billion 526 million 664 thousand seven hundred eighty three dollars five nine sixty five one sixty five eight eighty eight eight two billion four hundred eighty five million five hundred forty one thousand four hundred twenty one billion dollars one hundred fifty eight million four hundred nineteen thousand fourteen dollars 11 9 17 5 38 for 60 c 15 page 149 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar a one of this amount 1 billion 334 million 183 145 dollars shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6 2 crs and 261 445 dollars shall be general fund exempt pursuant to 2 section 24-22-117 1 c i b.5 crs said 261 445 dollars is not subject to the statutory limitation on general fund appropriations imposed by section 24-75-201.1 crs b3 of this amount 25 569 484 dollars contains an i notation c4 of this amount 452 948 415 dollars contains an i notation five six footnotes the following statements are referenced to the numbered footnotes throughout section 2.7817 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Executive Director's Office, Information Technology Contracts and Projects, Colorado Benefits Management 9 Systems, Operating and Contract Expenses, Colorado Benefits Management Systems, Health Care and Economic Security Staff Development Center. In 10 addition to the transfer authority provided in section 24-75-108, CRS, the department may transfer up to 5% of the total appropriations within the 11 line items designated. With this footnote, the department is also authorized to transfer up to 5% of the total appropriations within the line items 12 designated with this footnote to line item appropriations within the department of human services office of information technology services colorado 13 benefits management system subsection 14 1518 department of health care policy and financing executive director's office information technology contracts and projects colorado benefits management 16 systems operating and contract expenses colorado benefits management systems health care and economic security staff development center of page 150 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one this appropriation two million five hundred thousand dollar remains available for expenditure until the close of the twenty twenty seven to twenty eight state fiscal year two three nineteen department of health care policy and financing office of community living division of intellectual and developmental disabilities medicaid programs for it is the general assembly's intent that expenditures for these services be recorded only against the long bill group total for medicaid programs. 5-6-20 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Office of Community Living, Division of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, State-only Program 7, It is the General Assembly's intent that expenditures for these services be recorded only against the long bill group total for state-only programs. 8-9-21 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Office of Community Living, Division of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, State-only Programs. 10- Preventive Dental Hygiene, It is the General Assembly's intent that this appropriation be used to provide special dental services for persons with intellectual. 11- And developmental disabilities. 12-13-22 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Other Medical Services, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Training Grant Program 14 It is the General Assembly's intent that this appropriation be used to sustain the grant program for screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment 15 for individuals at risk of substance abuse that is authorized in section 25.5-5-208, CRS, in accordance with the requirements set forth in that section 16-17-23 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Transfers to Other State Department Medicaid-funded programs, Human Services, Executive Directors 18 Office the appropriation in this health care policy and financing line item corresponds to the medicaid funding in the department of human services page 151 house bill 26 to 1410 department of health care policy and financing appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one executive director's office general administration as such the appropriation contains amounts that correspond to centralized appropriation amounts into the department of human services consistent with section 24-75-105 crs the department of human services may transfer the the centralized appropriations 3 to other line item appropriations in the department of human services in order to aid budget reconciliation between the department of health care policy 4 and financing and the department of human services the department of health care policy and financing may make line item transfers out of this 5 appropriation to other department of human services medicaid-funded programs appropriations in this section 7 in amounts equal to the centralized 6 appropriation transfers made by the department of human services for medicaid-funded programs in the department of human services 7 824 department of health care policy and financing totals, Department of Higher Education, College Opportunity Fund Program, Fee-for-Service Contracts. 9. With state institutions, Fee-for-Service Contracts with state institutions for specialty education programs, governing boards, regents of the University of 10 Colorado, the Department of Higher Education shall transfer $900,000 to the Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing for administrative costs and 11 family medicine residency placements associated with care provided by the faculty of the Health Sciences Center campus at the University of Colorado that 12 are eligible for payment pursuant to section 25.5-4-401, CRS. If the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continues to allow the Department 13 of Health Care Policy and Financing to make supplemental payments to the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the Department of Higher Education 14 shall transfer the amount approved, up to $112,280,907, to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing pursuant to Section 23-18-304, 1, C, CRS. 15. If permission is discontinued, or is granted for a lesser amount, the Department of Higher Education shall transfer any portion of the $112,280,907 that is not. 16 transferred to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to the Regents of the University of Colorado. Page 152 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. 1 part 7 2 department of higher education 3 4 1 department administrative office 5 1 million 292 774 744 495 301 046 health life and dental a 247 233 i 65 953 3695 1143 short-term disability a 1 1 15 7 paid family and medical leave 8 38 267 23 752 7347 insurance a 7 168, I 9 unfunded liability 10 850,355 527,814 163,256 amortization payments a 159,285, I 11 94,935 58,822 18,279 step pay a 17,834, I 12 291,857 181,157 56,032 para direct distribution of 54, 668, 13 47,761 27,565 20,196 workers compensation of 14,216,347,795 168,545 legal services a page 153 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 payment to risk management 2 383 817 16 013 367 804 and property funds a 3 452 188 331 981 120 268 and lease space of 477,385,59,5,179,17,806 payments to OIT of 5,20,000,20,000 IT accessibility 6,124,702,124,702 core operations 7,3,896,334,8 and 9 of these amounts. It is estimated that $580,027 is from the private occupational schools fund created in section 23-64-122,1, CRS, and $661,634 is from various cash funds. 10 11 2 Colorado Commission on Higher Education and 12 Higher Education Special Purpose Programs 13 a administration 14 6,790,393 1,537,725 425,771 administration a 4 6 14 092 b 2 12 8 0 5 15 42.8 fte. Page 154 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1-2 of this amount, $163,105 shall be from private college and university fees paid pursuant to section 23-1-125, 5, CRS, and section 23-2-104.5, CRS, and $262,666 shall be from three various cash funds. b. 4 of this amount, $4,508,912 shall be from indirect cost recoveries and $105,180 shall be transferred from the Department of Education from the preschool to post-secondary education 5 alignment line item in the student learning section for assistance in aligning public education with post-secondary and workforce readiness standards. 6.7 b. Division of Private 8 1,183,721,183,720 occupational schools a 9, 10.3 fte, 10.11 This amount shall be from the private occupational schools fund created in section 23-64-122, 1, CRS. 1213, C, special purpose 14 Western Interstate Commission 15 169,169,000 for higher education, which, 16 300,650 300,650 which, optometry. Page 155 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1. Distribution to higher education 2.2,800,000 2,800,000 Competitive Research Authority A3. Veterinary School Capital 4. 285,141,361 43,640 I. Outlay B5. Colorado Geological Survey at 6.2,717,194 751,186 1,966,008 The Colorado School of Mines C7, 15.5 FTE, 8. Institute of Cannabis Research hosted at CSU, Pueblo 2593,075,003,075,000,D10,5,067,832,Gear up 5,067,832,I, 11,29.1,FTE, 12,Rural Teacher Recruitment, 13,Retention, and Professional 14,1,213,097,1,213,097,Development. 15,0.8,FTE. Page 156 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1.154,069 154,069 Financial Aid Assessment Tool 2 0.5 FTE 3 Center for Substance Use 4 Disorder, Prevention, Treatment 5 and Recovery Support Strategies 6 at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 2671,375,125,001 250 000 d8 sb 22 to 192 development and 9 implementation of stackable 10 200 535 138 685 61 850 credentials e 11 1 fte 12 17 357 377 13 a 14 this amount shall be from the innovative higher education research fund created in section 23 1 crs from limited gaming revenue deposited to the fund pursuant 15 to section 44 2 a 4 crs in prior years page 157 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar B1 This amount shall be from student fees from non-resident students, including fees paid on behalf of non-resident students by the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, 2 pursuant to Section 23-31-118-2, CRS. This amount is shown for informational purposes only because the student fees are paid directly to the veterinary school at Colorado State 3 University. C4 This amount shall be from the severance tax operational fund created in Section 39-29-109-2, B, CRS, pursuant to Section 39-29-109.3, 1, B, CRS. d5 these amounts shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1 crs e6 this amount shall be from the credentials to support colorado jobs cash fund created in section 23-5-145.6-5 a crs 7 8 d lease purchase payments and capital related 9 outlays 10 university of colorado lease 11 purchase of academic facilities 12 12 389 202 1 million 21 Page 1872 11367330 at Fitzsimons A13 Appropriation to the higher. 14 Education Federal Mineral. 15 16928149 16928149 Lease Revenues Fund. Page 158 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. 1. Lease purchase of academic 2 facilities pursuant to section 3 17,106,213,178,064,23-19.9-102, CRSB 16,928,149,C4, Annual depreciation lease 5 13,100,234,13,100,234, Equivalent payment 6 Senate Bill 20-219, COP 7 4,752,504,752,500 payments 8 lease purchase payment for 9 Colorado State University 10 17,496,631 17,496,631 National Western Center D. 1181,772,929 12-13 This amount shall be from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Fitzsimons Trust Fund created in Section 23-20-136, 3, A, CRS B. 14 This amount shall be from the Higher Education Federal Mineral Lease Revenues Fund created in Section 23-19.9-102, 1, CRS C 15 This amount shall be from the Higher Education Federal Mineral Lease Revenues Fund created in Section 23-19.9-102-1, CRS. The reappropriated funds are from General Funds 16 Amounts included in the Appropriation to the Higher Education Federal Mineral Lease Revenues Fund line item in this subdivision. Page 159 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal Total General Fund Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds $$$$$ d1 this amount shall be from the national western center trust fund created in section 23-31-902 2 crs and originates as general fund pursuant to section 23-31-902 3 crs 2 3 e tuition slash enrollment contingency 27 4 75 075 000 000 a 5 a 6 this amount shall be from tuition revenue from the governing boards in addition to what is appropriated to the governing boards this spending authority may be transferred to the seven governing boards 8 9 825 331 312 886 f indirect cost assessments of 5 12 4 45 i 10 11 of this amount 145 690 dollars shall be from the museum and preservation operations account of the state Historical Fund created in Section 44 C I B CRS shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries from College Invest and College Assist, and $77,609 shall be from the Private Occupational Schools Fund created in Section 23-64-1-20213, 1, CRS. 14-15-182,929,756. page 160 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one three colorado commission on higher education financial aid a need based grants 28 to 247 million 218 494 247 218 494 a three of four of this amount 179 968 585 dollars shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6, 2, CRS. 5, b, work study 28, 29, 621,623,577, 21,623,577, 7, 8, c, special purpose 9 veterans slash law enforcement slash 10 1,643,701,643,700, POW tuition assistance 11 native american students slash 412 22,104,552 22,104,552 lewis college 13 Colorado Opportunity 14 10 million 10 million Scholarship Initiative Fund Page 161 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 tuition assistance for career 2 and technical education 3 450,450,000 certificate programs 4 fourth-year innovation pilot 5 175,175,000 program 6 state aid for foster students 7 4,535,145 4,535,145 Program 8, 4.0 FTE, 9 Post-secondary assistance for 10 students who were homeless in 11 2,292,928 2,292,928 High School 12, 2.0 FTE, 13 41,201,325 14 15 310,043,396 16. Page 162 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1, 4, College Opportunity Fund Program 2, A. Stipends 3 stipends for an estimated 4 120,562 eligible full-time 5 equivalent students at $3,480 6 419,554,020 per 30 credit hours 7 stipends for an estimated 1,505 8 eligible full-time equivalent 9 students attending participating 10 private institutions at $1,740 per 11 2,618,369 30 credit hours 12 422,172,389 422,172,389 A 13 A 14 of this amount $356,835,412 shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6. 2, CRS. 15. Page 163 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1. B. Fee-for-service contracts with state 2 institutions 3 fee-for-service contracts with 4 state institutions pursuant to 5 583,313,321 section 23-18-303.5 CRS 6. Fee-for-service contracts with 7 state institutions for specialty education programs 24-8-214,2755 9. Limited purpose fee-for-service 10. Contracts with state institutions 11 Pursuant to section 23 12 1 13 Limited purpose fee 14 contracts with state institutions 15 pursuant to section 23 16 974 CRS Page 164 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. 1 Limited Purpose Fee for Service 2 Contracts with State Institutions 3 Pursuant to Section 23-60-109, for 43,480 CRS 5 Limited Purpose Fee for Service 6 Contracts with State Institutions 7 Pursuant to Section 8-15.7-201, 855,360 CRS 9 799,524,764,799,524,764,A10 111,221,697,153,12,A13 of this amount $737,180,685 shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6, 2, CRS. 14-15-16. Page 165 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. 5. Governing Boards 31-2-A, Trustees of Adams State University 3358,445,552-29,815,735,828,629,817,b4,410.0,fte,5,6 of this amount $25,917,416 shall be from the student's share of tuition $3,876,238,i, shall be from mandatory fees and $2,2081, represents an estimate of limited gaming tax revenue that will be distributed pursuant to section 44-30-702-3-C-I-C-R-S. B. 8. This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the college opportunity fund program in this department, including $2,513,952 for student stipend payments, $26,050,865-9 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to section 23-18-303.5-C-R-S, and $65,000 for limited-purpose fee-for-service contracts. 10.11.B. Trustees of Colorado Mesa University 3012 150,030,421 99,768,254 A 50,262,167 B 13,876.8 FTE 14 A 15 of this amount, $90,420,866 shall be from the student's share of tuition, $7,437,395, shall be from mandatory fees, and $1,909,993, I, represents an estimate of limited gaming tax. 16 revenues that will be distributed pursuant to section 44-30-702-3-C-I-C-R-S. Page 166 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. B. 1 This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the college opportunity fund program in this department, including $22,696,560 for student stipend payments, $27,500,607 2 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to section 23-18-303.5 CRS, and $65,000 for limited-purpose fee-for-service contracts. 3 4 C Trustees of Metropolitan State University of Denver 35 247,596,641 57 502 493 A 90 0 94 147 B 6 1450.9 FTE 7 8 of this amount 121,790,413 dollars shall be from the student's share of tuition and dollar 35 712 080 I shall be from mandatory fees. B9 this amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the college opportunity fund program in this department including $38,411,892 for student stipend payments $51,600 $17,255.10 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to section 23-18-303.5, CRS, and $65,000 for limited-purpose fee-for-service contracts. 11-12, D, Trustees of Western Colorado University 30-13-53,275,581-28,031,976A25,243,605B14,365.0FTE,15. A 16 of this amount, $22,695,170 shall be from the student's share of tuition and $5,336,806,i, shall be from mandatory fees Page 167 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ B1 This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the College Opportunity Fund program in this department, including $4,835,808 for student stipend payments, $20,342,797 2 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to Section 23-18-303.5, CRS, and $65,000 for limited-purpose fee-for-service contracts. 3-4-E, Board of Governors of the 5 Colorado State University System 36-924-272-671-673-963-483-A-250-309-188-B7-5524.5-FTE, beta 9 of this amount, $583,057,553 shall be from the student's share of tuition, $90,005,930,i, shall be from mandatory fees, and $900,000 shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created 10 in section 39-28.8-501-1. CRS. B. 11 This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the College Opportunity Fund program in this department, including $55,830,684 for student stipend payments, $94,291,656. 12 For fee-for-service contracts pursuant to Section 23-18-303.5, CRS, $100,121,848 for fee-for-service contracts for specialty education programs, and $65,000 for limited-purpose fee for. 13 Service contracts. 14 15 page 168 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 f trustees of fort lewis college 32 77 171 836 53 336 for 14 a 23 835 422 b 3 455.9 fte for a 5 of this amount, $45,919,589 shall be from the student's share of tuition and $7,416,825, I, shall be from mandatory fees. B6 This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the College Opportunity Fund program in this department, including $4,245,600 for student stipend payments, $19,524,822,7 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to section 23-18-303.5, CRS, and $65,000 for limited purpose fee-for-service contracts. 8 9 G Regents of the University of Colorado 24 30 31 10 1,934,028,617 1 5 88 0 24 183 A 3 46 004 for 34 B 11 10,479.2 FTE 12 13 of this amount 1,490,267,500 shall be from the student's share of tuition, $82,917,175, shall be from mandatory fees, $12,839,508 shall be from the tobacco litigation settlement. 14 Monies Health Education Fund created in Section 24-75-1104.5, 1.7, C, CRS, and $2 million shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in Section 39 1 CRS Page 169 House Bill 26 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds B1 This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the college opportunity fund program in this department, including $101,502,900 for student stipend payments, $129,095,779,2 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to section 23-18-303.5, CRS, $113,880,907 for fee-for-service contracts for specialty education programs, and $1,524,848 for limited purpose 3 fee-for-service contracts. For 5, H, Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines 36 306 498 403 268 357 779 A 38 140 624 B 7 1341.5 FTE, beta 9 of this amount, $241 573 106 shall be from the student's share of tuition and $26 784 673 I shall be from mandatory fees. B. 10 This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the College Opportunity Fund program in this department, including $11,238,312 for student stipend payments and $26,902,312.11 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to Section 23-18-303.5, CRS. 1213, I, University of Northern Colorado 3014-164,531,632-93,946,546A70,585,086B. 15, 1,085.8 FTE 16 Page 170 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ A one of this amount, $76,838,260 shall be from the student's share of tuition and $17,108,286, I, shall be from mandatory fees b. 2. This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the College Opportunity Fund program in this department, including $15,089,628 for student stipend payments, $55,430,458,3 for fee-for-service contracts pursuant to Section 23-18-303.5, CRS, and $65,000 for limited-purpose fee-for-service contracts. 4. 5. J. State Board for 6 Community Colleges and 7 Occupational Education State System Community Colleges 38 731,188,209,435,213,915,295,974,294,b9,6,055.3,fte,10,11 of this amount, $385,527,568 shall be from the student's share of tuition, $30,427,403,i, represents an estimate of limited gaming tax revenues that will be distributed pursuant to section 1244-30-702,3,c,i, CRS, and $19,258,944, I, shall be from mandatory fees. B13 This amount shall be from general fund appropriated to the College Opportunity Fund program in this department, including $163,188,684 for student stipend payments, $132,556,770. 14 For fee-for-service contracts pursuant to Section 23-18-303.5, CRS, and $228,840 for limited purpose fee for service contracts. 15 16 4 billion 647 million 39 562. Page 171 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar. 1 2 6 local district college grants pursuant to 3 Section 23-71-301, CRS. For 15 13 1 for 24 I Colorado Mountain College a 518 15 2 I Ames Community College a 633 7 These amounts represent estimates of limited gaming tax revenues that will be distributed pursuant to section 44-30-702, 3, C, I, CRS. 9 10 7 Division of Occupational Education 11 1,062,309 a administrative costs 1 0 62 309 a 12 9.0 fte 13 a 14 this amount shall be from indirect cost recoveries 15 page 172 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$ 1. B. Distribution of State 2 Assistance for Career and 3 Technical Education Pursuant 4 32,689,057 to Section 23-8-102. CRS 32, 689, 057-A5-A6 This amount shall be transferred from the Department of Education from the transfer to the Department of Higher Education for distribution of State Assistance for Career and Technical 7 Education line item appropriation in the Assistance to Public Schools Section. 8922,911,338 22,911,338 C. Area Technical Colleges 1011 D. Sponsored Programs 122,709,888 1. Administration 13,23.0 FTE 1416,156,031 2. Programs 1518,865,919 18,865,919 I. 16 Page 173 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1. E. Colorado first customized to 1,456,499 job training 1,456,499 A3A4 this amount shall be transferred from the governor, lieutenant governor, state planning and budgeting from the Colorado first customized job training line item 5 appropriation in the economic development program section. 6776,985,122,898, Oraria Higher Education Center 1031,435,042,31435,042, Administration 11, 231.7 FTE, 12,13, 9, History Colorado, A. Central Administration 32,14,15, 2,766,563, 2,650,221, Central Administration A1, 16, 342, I, 16, 15.0 FTE, Page 174 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal Total General Fund Cash funds Reappropriated funds Federal funds $$$$$$ 1 Collections and Curatorial 2 1,600,448 1,600,448 Services A 3, 16.5 FTE 4 1,963,321 1,963,321 Facilities Management a 5, 10.0 FTE, 6 250,250,000 collections care and storage 7 historical site maintenance and 8 879,484 114,073 765,411 operations a 9, 6.0 FTE, 10 America 250, Colorado 150 11 168,653 168,653 commission 12, 1.0 FTE, 13 lease purchase of Colorado 14 3,876,085 3,827,365 148,720 History Museum A 1511,504,554 16 Page 175 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal Total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ A one of these amounts Shall be from the Museum and Preservation Operations Account of the State Historical Fund created in Section 44 C I B CRS Two shall be from the Community Museum's cash fund created in Section 24-80-209-3, CRS, and $185,000 shall be from the Enterprise Services Cash Fund created in Section 24-80-209-3, two, CRS amounts in the Museum and Preservation Operations account are from limited gaming revenues deposited in the state. historical fund pursuant to section 9 5 b 2 of 4 article 18 of the state constitution and allocated pursuant to section 44-30-1201 5 c crs 5 6 b centrally appropriated 7 2 million 815 810 528 935 2 million 81 049 health life and dental a 205 826 i 8 9734 1429 7689 short-term disability a 616 i 9 paid family and medical leave 10 62 575 9187 49 427 insurance a 3 961 i 11 unfunded liability 12 1 390 571 204 156 1 098 386 amortization payments a 88 029 i 13 152 989 22 859 120 275 step pay a 9 8 55 i 14 255 918 37 569 200 2150 para direct distribution a 16 199 i 15 6498 6498 shift differential a 16 58 678 58 678 workers compensation a page 176 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$ 161400 761400 7 legal services a 2 payment to risk management 3 308837 308837 and property funds a 4 58282358278 222170 payments to oit a 2 372 i 5 163748 163748 it accessibility a 6 0.9 fte 763270 4117 21153 core operations a 85930 C.I.C.R.S. and $113,487 shall be from the Community Museum's cash fund created in Section 24-80-209-3 CRS amounts in the museum. 13 and preservation operations account are from limited gaming revenues deposited in the State Historical Fund pursuant to Section 9-5-2 of 14 and allocated pursuant to Section 44-30-1201-5-C CRS amounts in the preservation grant program account are from limited gaming revenues deposited in the state historical 15 fund pursuant to section 9 5 b 2 of article 18 of the state constitution and allocated pursuant to section 44-30-1201 5 c crs page 177 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 c history colorado museums 32 231 million 319 660. 2 916 673 history colorado center a 3 25 000 b 77 9 89 4 7.0 fte 5 3 444 101 417 713 2 023 384 community museum c 3 0 0 3 i 6 19.0 fte 7 4 819 1024 819 102 statewide programming d 34.5 FTE 99,582,864 1011 of this amount $782,829 shall be from the Enterprise Services Fund created in section 24-80-209-2 CRS and $133,844 shall be from the Museum and Preservation Operations 12 account of the State Historical Fund. Created in section 44-30-1201-5-C-I-B-CRS amounts in the museum and preservation operations account are from limited gaming revenues 13 deposited in the state historical fund pursuant to section 9-5-B-2 of article 18 of the state constitution and allocated pursuant to section 44-30-1201-5-C-CRS B-14 this amount shall be from indirect cost recoveries from the state historical fund program Page 178 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. See one of this amount, $1,044,957 shall be from the Museum and Preservation Operations account of the State Historical Fund, created in section 44-30-1201-5, C, I, B, CRS, and $2,978,427 shall be from the Community Museum's cash fund created in section 24-80-209-3, CRS amounts in the Museum and Preservation Operations account are from limited three gaming revenues deposited in the State Historical Fund pursuant to section 9, 5, B, 2, of Article 18 of the state constitution and allocated. Pursuant to section 44-30-1201-5, C, for CRS. D5 of this amount, $2,729,844 shall be from the Enterprise Services Fund created in section 24-80-209, 2, CRS, and $2,089,258 shall be from the Museum and Preservation Operations 6 account of the State Historical Fund. Created in section 44-30-1201, 5, C, I, B, CRS amounts in the Museum and Preservation Operations account are from limited gaming revenues. 7. Deposited in the State Historical Fund pursuant to Section 9, 5, b, 2, of Article 18 of the State Constitution and allocated pursuant to Section 44-30-1201, 5, c, CRS. 89 D. Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation 32 10 11 2,079,823,961,194 program costs a 147,283 B. 971,346, I. 12,23.5 FTE 13 Native American boarding 14 333,333,333 school research program 15, 2.0 FTE 16 2,413,156 Page 179 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1-2 of this amount, $901,194 shall be from the Museum and Preservation Operations account of the State Historical Fund, created in section 44-30-1201-5, C, I, B, CRS, and $60,000 3 shall be from the Enterprise Services Cash Fund created in section 24-80-209-2, CRS amounts in the Museum and Preservation Operations Account are from limited gaming revenues for deposited in the State Historical Fund pursuant to Section 9, 5, b, 2, of Article 18 of the State Constitution and allocated pursuant to Section 44-30-1201, 5, c, CRS. B5 This amount shall be transferred from the Governor Lieutenant Governor State Planning and Budgeting from the Economic Development Program section from revenues 6 associated with the Historic Tax Credit Program 7 E State Historical Fund Program 9 Administration a 10 20 FTE 119 I Statewide Preservation Grants a 12 6 I Gaming Cities Distributions B 13- Indirect Cost Assessment 4. 14 history colorado 15 325 325 000 administration a 16 17 million 900 2098 page 180 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds re-appropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar one or two these amounts shall be from the preservation grant program account of the state historical fund created in section 44-30-1201 5 c i crs amounts in this account are from three limited gaming revenues deposited in the state historical fund pursuant to section 9 5 b 2 of article 18 of the state constitution and allocated pursuant to section 44-30-120145 c crs pursuant to section 44-30-1201 5 c i crs money in the preservation grant program account is subject to annual appropriation for the selection monitoring 5 and administration of grants any money not appropriated for these administrative purposes is continuously appropriated for preservation grants which are reflected for informational six purposes. B7 This amount shall be from limited gaming revenues deposited in the State Historical Fund created in Section 9, 5, B, 2, of Article 18 of the State Constitution and Reflexon. 8 Estimate of the 20% share of State Historical Fund revenues to be used for the preservation and restoration of the cities of Central, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek pursuant to. 9 Section 9, 5, B, 3, of Article 18 of the State Constitution. 10 11 f cumbers and toltec railroad commission 33 12 3 million 535 thousand 1 million 365 thousand 2 1 70 000 i a 13 a 14 of this amount 2 million 150 000 shall be from the state of new mexico and 20 000 shall be from cumbers and toltec scenic railroad commission cash funds amounts from the 15 state of new mexico and commission cash funds are shown for informational purposes only 16 page 181 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 150 million 870 527 2 3 totals part 7 4 6 billion 558 million 633 800 1 billion 666 million 563 477 higher education a 3 billion 589 million 127 308 billion dollars 1 billion 276 $6,301,173.26, 641, 842 C5 A 6 of this amount, $1,273,984,682 shall be from the general fund exempt account created in section 24-77-103.6, 2, CRS. B 7 of this amount, $350,459,313 contains an I notation. C 8 This amount contains an I notation. 9 10 footnotes, the following statements are referenced to the numbered footnotes throughout section 2. 11-12-24 Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Totals, Department of Higher Education, College Opportunity Fund Program, Fee-for-Service Contracts 13 with State Institutions, Fee-for-Service Contracts with State Institutions for Specialty Education Programs, Governing Boards, Regents of the University of 14 Colorado, the Department of Higher Education shall transfer $900,000 to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing for administrative costs and 15 family medicine. Residency placements associated with care provided by the Faculty of the Health Sciences Center Campus at the University of Colorado that 16 are eligible for payment pursuant to Section 25.5-4-401, if the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services continues to allow the department page 182 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds One of health care policy and financing to make supplemental payments to the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the Department of Higher Education too shall transfer the amount approved, up to $112,280,907, to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing pursuant to Section 23-18-304, 1, C, CRS. 3. If permission is discontinued, or is granted for a lesser amount, the Department of Higher Education shall transfer any portion of the $112,280,907 that is not for transferred to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to the Regents of the University of Colorado. 5.625 Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education and Higher Education Special Purpose Programs, Special Purpose, Institute 7 of Cannabis Research hosted at CSU Pueblo, of the appropriation in this line item, $700,000 remains available until the close of the 2027-28 fiscal year. 8. 9-26 Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education and Higher Education Special Purpose Programs, Special Purpose, Center 4 10 Substance Use Disorder, Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Support Strategies at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center It is the General 11 Assembly's intent that the general fund appropriation be used to pay for the statewide perinatal substance use data linkage project contract pursuant to section 1227-80-121, CRS 13 14 27 Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education and Higher Education Special Purpose Programs, Tuition Slash Enrollment 15 Contingency, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education may transfer spending authority from this line item to the governing boards if tuition revenue 16 increases beyond appropriated levels. The spending authority for this line item is in addition to the funds appropriated directly to the governing boards. It 17 is the General Assembly's intent that the Colorado Commission on Higher Education transfer spending authority from this line item to allow institutions to. 18. Receive and expend tuition revenue beyond appropriated levels that results from higher than expected enrollment and not to support tuition increases that exceed Page 183 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Higher Education Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1. The assumptions outlined in the footnotes for each governing board 2.3.28 Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education Financial Aid, Need-Based Grants, Work Study It is the General Assembly's four intent that the general fund reductions of $12,665,500 for need-based grants and $1,505,601 for work-study represent ongoing base reductions for the five elimination of amounts provided for students attending private and proprietary institutions of higher education for the 2025-26 state fiscal year and is not six intended to reduce amounts provided for students of public institutions of higher education. 7-8-29 Department of Higher Education, Colorado Commission on Higher Education Financial Aid, Work Study, 2% of the work study appropriation 9 remains available for expenditure until the close of the 2027-28 state fiscal year. 10 11-30 Department of Higher Education, Governing Boards, Trustees of Adams State University, Trustees of Colorado Mesa University, Trustees of Metropolitan. 12-State University of Denver, Trustees of Western Colorado University, Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System, Trustees of Fort Lewis 13 College, Regents of the University of Colorado, trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, University of Northern Colorado, State Board for Community 14 Colleges and Occupational Education State System Community Colleges, the amounts in these line items are calculated based on the assumption that number 15 undergraduate student within state classification will pay more tuition in FI 2026 to 27 than 3 and 5 tenths percent over what a student would have paid 16 in FI 2025 to 26 for the same credit hours and course of study, except that 17, 1, the line item for the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education State System Community Colleges is calculated based on the 18 assumption that no undergraduate student with in-state classification will pay more tuition in fi 2026 to 27 than 5 percent over what a student would have page 184 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one paid in fi 2025 to 26 for the same credit hours and course of study two two the base tuition for new incoming lower division resident undergraduate students at the university of colorado colorado springs may increase from 3.73 percent and up to 31.7 percent or 390 and up to 3 390 for 30 credit hours based on the course of study with an additional increase of 3.5% or $387, for for a total possible maximum increase of between 7.3% and up to 35.4% or $777 and up to $3,777, based on the course of study. Continuing 5 lower division resident undergraduate students, defined as students that have earned less than 60 credit hours, will pay no more than 3.5% over what 6 a student would have paid in FI 2025-26. 7, 3, the calculation for Western Colorado University incorporates an assumption that resident undergraduate students enrolled in the university's nursing. 8. Program will be assessed differential tuition that will result in an equivalent tuition increase of up to 28% over what a non-nursing student would have 9. Paid in FI 2025-26 for the same credit hours and course of study 10. These amounts are also calculated based on the assumption that each governing board will increase tuition rates for graduate and non-resident students based 11 on its assessment of market conditions except that the calculation for any institution at which the state contributes a share of non-resident tuition is based on 12. The assumption that no student with non-resident classification will pay more tuition in FI 2026-27 than 5% over what a student would have paid in the state. 13 fi 2025 to 26 for the same credit hours and course of study the general assembly may adjust the amounts in these line items through supplemental action 14 during fi 2026 to 27 based on updated enrollment estimates and tuition rate information 15 1631 department of higher education governing boards regents of the university of colorado the appropriation in this line item includes 2 million dollar cash 17 funds from the marijuana tax cash fund to support scientific research on the impact of high potency thc related policy analysis and dissemination of a 18 public information campaign on the impact of high thc marijuana concentrates the general assembly intends that this money be used to build on work page 185 house bill 26 to 1410 department of higher education appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one conducted by the school of public health pursuant to house bill 21 to 1317 concerning the regulation of marijuana for safe consumption 2332 department of higher education history colorado central administration history colorado museums office of archaeology and historic preservation for in addition to the transfer authority provided in section 24-75-108 crs history colorado may transfer up to 10 percent of the total amount appropriated five in these sections between the sections and among the line items within the sections 6733 department of higher education history colorado cumbers and toltec railroad commission the amount in this line item is calculated based on the following eight assumptions. 1, this line item includes $280,000 general fund for annual commission operating expenses and other routine ongoing costs including controlled. 9, maintenance. 2, the balance of the general fund appropriation, totaling $1,085,000, is for capital projects including locomotive boiler repair, passenger car upgrades. 10, and track, bridge, and tunnel upgrades. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds Reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 1 Part 8 2 Department of Human Services 3 4 1 Executive Directors Office 5 General Administration 6 2,871,282 1,886,246,985,036 personal services a 7 19.3 ft 8 76 million 547 thousand 661 43 million 971 447 4 million 462 392 health life and dental b 14 for 94 for 44 a 13 6 19 378 c 9 264 022 161 014 13 272 short Term disability B 39, 124 A 50, 612 C 10 paid family medical leave 11 1,697,281,035,087,85,319 insurance B 251,513 A 325,361 C 12 unfunded liability 13 37,717,355 23,1939 1,895,973 amortization. Payments B5, 589, 188 A7, 230, 255 C 14,394,357 37 Salary survey of 15,4,140,932,865,976,283,025 Step pay B536, 269 A455,660 C Page 187 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Human Services Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$ 17,504,105,5,065,271,2,438,834 para direct distribution a 211,601,197,664,086,470 shift differential b2,283,405 a1,653,236 c3,11,872,8197,375,424,497,399 workers compensation a 4,488, 844-243-544-244-350 operating expenses a 950 c5 5338 715 3867549 33435 legal services b1 437 731 a6 administrative law judge 7 717 825 31 205 186 615 services a 8 payment to risk management 9 2 million 1 hundred ninety nine thousand two hundred forty three 1 million nine hundred nine thousand nine hundred twenty eight two hundred eighty nine thousand three hundred fifteen and property funds a 10 office of the ombudsman for 11 behavioral health access to 12 564 943 564 943 care 13 5.0 fte 14 163 million 526 610 15 page 188 house bill 26 to 1410 department of human services appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. A one of these amounts, $19,917,702 shall be from Medicaid funds transferred from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, transfers to other State Department Medicaid funded two programs, Human Services, Executive Director's Office line item, $9,724,504 shall be from Departmental Indirect Cost Recoveries or the Indirect Costs Excess Recovery Fund created in 3 Section 24-75-1401-2, CRS, $320,579 shall be from funds transferred from the Department of Personnel, Colorado Equity. Office, $232,662 shall be from funds transferred from the four Department of Early Childhood, and $3,077,813 shall be from various sources of reappropriated funds. Be five of these amounts, $1,720,014 shall be from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1, CRS, $33,435 shall be from the Colorado Division for the Deaf, Heart. 6. Of hearing and deafblind cash fund created in section 26-21-107-1, CRS, an estimated $23,301 shall be from the records and reports fund created in section 19-1-307, 2.5, B. 7 CRS, and an estimated $4,997,136 shall be from various sources of cash funds. See 8 of these amounts, $927,585 shall be from the temporary assistance for needy families block grant, an estimated $235,904, I, shall be from the Substance Abuse Prevention and 9 Treatment Block Grant and I shall be from various sources of federal funds 10 B indirect cost assessment 3411 173292 1498 778 23 for 15 I 1213 this amount shall be from various sources of cash funds 1415 16369990216 Page 189 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Human Services. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1, 2, Administration and Finance 2, A, Administration 346,384,710 29,651,787 16,732,923 Personal Services a 4,491.6 FTE, 56,590,962, 4,704,211,884,998 operating expenses a 1,754,652,975,672,7 a 8 of these amounts. An estimated $16,816,890 shall be from Departmental Indirect Cost Recoveries or the Indirect Costs Excess Recovery Fund created in section 24-75-1401, 2, CRS, 9 an estimated $1,736,652 shall be from statewide indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401-2 crs 37,980 dollars shall be from 10 medicaid funds transferred from the department of health care policy and financing transfers to other state department medicaid funded programs human services executive 11 directors office line item and an estimated 26,399 dollars shall be from funds transferred from the department of early childhood 12 13 b information technology 14 4 million 266 187 1504 138 2761 949 it project administration a 15 7.0 ft. page 190 house bill 26 to 1410 department of human services appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar 1 457 269 269 348 187 921 operating expenses a 2 571 919 160 105 411 814 microcomputer lease payments a three-county financial management for 1 1 572 283 385 883 1 186 400 system a 5 17 10,000 38 6,554 10,484 client index project a 651,047,611 27,132,818 706 payments to OITB 23,914,087 A7 153,887 153,887 IT accessibility 8,0.9 FTE 9,759,016 759,016 digital trunk radio payments 10 1,2547 540,933 461,614 core operations a 11 3 680 263 312 120 73 368 136 it systems interoperability c12 727 520 463 206 264 314 enterprise content management a 13 64 255 440 14 a 15 these amounts shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24-75-1401 2. CRS. B 16 This amount is from various sources of cash funds. Page 191 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Human Services. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. C 1 of this amount, an estimated $1,010,441 shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund created in section 24 2 CRS and 2 an estimated shall be from various sources of reappropriated funds 3 C Operations 5 1 vehicle lease payments a 6 1 Least. Space a 71,690,625,712,680,977,945. Capital complex lease. Space a 8. Annual depreciation lease. 9.7,781,784. 7,781,784. Equivalent payment. 10.10. 1,128,145. 8,283,374. 1,844,771. Utilities a 11.22,659,654. 12.13. These amounts shall be from departmental indirect cost recoveries or the indirect costs excess recovery fund. Created in section 24-75-1401, 2, CRS. 1415. Page 192 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Human Services. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$. 1 2 D special purpose 3 1 million 195,511 1 million 195,511 buildings and grounds rental a 4 6.5 FTE 5 816,747 State Garage Fund 8 16 7 40 76 2.6 FTE 7 105,777 70,290 35,487 Injury Prevention Program C. 8 1,520,023,707,016,260,314 SNAP Quality Assurance D. 552,693, I. 9. 15.3 FTE. 10 4,723,994, 3,831,018, 892, 976, I. Administrative Review Unit E. 11. 42.4 FTE. 12 records and reports of child 13 451 962 398 092 53 870 i abuse and neglect e 14 4.0 fte page 193 house bill 26 to 1410 department of human services appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar 1. Quality Assurance Youth 2. 785,518 785,518 Services 3. 7.0 FTE, 4 Health Insurance Portability and 5 Accountability Act of 1996. 6. 230,286 125,025 105,113 Security Remediation C. 148, I. E. 7. 1.0 FTE, 8211 Human Services Referral 9. 1,500,581 1,500,581 Service 10. 1.0 FTE. 11 11 330 399 12 a 13 this amount shall be from the department of human services buildings and grounds cash fund created in section 26-1-133.5 2 crs b 14 this amount shall be from money in the state garage fund collected from various department of human services divisions and other state agencies pursuant to section 24-30-1104 15 2 b crs page 194 house bill 26 to 1410 department of human services appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. C 1 of these amounts, an estimated $138,050 shall be from Departmental Indirect Cost Recoveries or the Indirect Costs Excess Recovery Fund created in Section 24-75-1401-2, CRS, and $2,2550 shall be from funds transferred from the Department of Early Childhood. D 3 This amount shall be from the Healthy School Meals for All Program Fund created in Section 22-82.9-211-2, CRS. E 4 These amounts shall be from Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. These amounts are reflected pursuant to Section 26 and shall be used in determining the five amount to be deposited to the excess federal title 4E reimbursements cash fund Pursuant to section 26 6-7-E Communication services for people with disabilities Enterprise 8-4,976,917 4,976,917 program costs a 9,16.8 FTE 10-11 This amount shall be from the Colorado Division for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind cash fund created in section 26-21-107-1, CRS. 12. F. Indirect Cost Assessment 3413-415701-269-320-A-32-119-B-114-262, I. 14-A-15 This amount shall be from various sources of cash funds. Page 195 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Human Services. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$. B1 This amount shall be from various sources of reappropriated funds. 2 3 156,613,783 4 5 3 Office of Children, Youth, and Families 6 942,699,927,918,4741 A. Administration A. 10,040, I. B7, 4.0 FTE, 8 and 9 of this amount. An estimated $2,338 shall be from the Colorado Domestic Abuse Program fund established pursuant to section 39-22-802-1, CRS, and shall include donations and 10 money generated from fees pursuant to section 26-7.5-105, 1, B, CRS, an estimated $1,966, I, shall be from the Youth Services Program Fund created in section 26-6.8-102, 7, A, 11, CRS, which is received as a damage award and, as such, does not constitute fiscal year spending for the purposes of section 20 of Article X of the State Constitution, and an estimated $12,437 shall be from the marijuana tax cash fund created in section 39-28.8-501-1, CRS. B. 13 of this amount, an estimated $7,068 shall be from Title IV-E of the Social Security Act and an estimated $2,972 shall be from various sources of federal funds. 14-15. Page 196 House Bill 26-1410 Department of Human Services. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. 1. B. Division of Child Welfare 2 9,243,985 7,809,634 356,117 Administration A1, 078,234. B3, 74.3 FTE. For 1,800,000 1,170,630,000 County IT Support C. 5,8,427,970,5,489,337,49,486 Colorado Trails D. 2, 8, 89, 154 C. training 35669697335107561224 i e3125674 f7 7.0 fte 8 foster and adoptive parent 9 recruitment training and support 3510143091819195411968 b11 2.0 fte 12 adoption and relative 1396286241491437767 985-484-I, Guardianship Assistance E. 39-156-981-G Child Welfare Services 35-36-14-450-277-856-H-233-645-026-81-381-777-I, E. 14-383-230-A-120-867-823-G-15 county level child welfare 16 38 133 279 29 316 154 38 33 8 74 staffing e 4 983 251 g Page 197 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Human Services Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$ 1 residential placements for two children with intellectual and 33,877,625,3,862,885,14,740,I, developmental disabilities before, 2.0,FTE, 5 Child Welfare Prevention and 6 598,953 598,953 Intervention Services I 7 Child Welfare Legal 8 7,000,7,000,000 Representation J 9 Family and Children's Programs 36,10,67,043,979,44,422,8, 106,10,350,702, I, B, 12,270,471, I, K, 11 Collaborative Management 12 6,665,039,2,265,039,4,400,000 Incentives L 13 Collaborative Management 14 Program Administerium and 15 558 973 558 973 evaluation 16 3.5 FTE page 198 house bill 26 to 1410 department of human services appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar one two million seven hundred eighty thousand seventeen independent Living Programs 2, 780, 017, I, M2, 4.0 FTE, 3 Federal Child Abuse Prevention 4, 1,834,781 and Treatment Act Grant 1, 834, 781, I, N5, 3.0 FTE, 6 Hotline for Child Abuse and Neglect 35, 7, 2,477,507, 2,427,119, 50, 388, A, B8, 6.0 FTE, 9 Public Awareness Campaign for 10 1 million 22 524 1 million 22 524 child welfare 11 1.0 fte adoption savings 37 12 1 million 852 553 1 8 52 5 53 0 13 appropriation to the foster 14 youth successful transition to 15 1 million 134 609 1 million 134 609 adulthood grant program fund page 199 house bill 26 to 1410 Department of Human Services. Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$. One foster youth successful to transition to adulthood grant 3 1,134,609 Program 1,134,609 P4 1,482,485 1,482,485 Fostering opportunities 5 4,626,499 3,816,564 761,549 Preventing Youth Homelessness Q48, 386, I, B6, 4.3 FTE, 7,648,773 648,773 Child Welfare Licensing R8, 4.0 FTE, 9,1,780,137 1,780,137 Community Provider Incentives 10 High Acuity Treatment 11,879,978,886,193,969 Services B 12, 10.0 FTE, 13 727,796,262 14 of 15 These amounts shall be from Medicaid funds Transferred from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, Transfers to other State Department Medicaid-funded programs, 16 Human Services, Office of Children, Youth and Families, Child Welfare Administration and Child Welfare Services line items Page 200 House Bill 26 to 1410 Department of Human Services Appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds $$$$$$$$. B1 These amounts shall be from Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. They are reflected pursuant to Section 26 and shall be used in determining the amount 2 to be deposited to the excess federal Title IV reimbursements cash fund pursuant to Section 26 2 D 2 C CRS C. 3 of these amounts, an estimated $2, 374, 965, shall be from Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, an estimated $972,485 shall be from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 4 Block Grant, and $171,704 shall be from Title XX of the Social Security Act. D5 This amount shall be from funds transferred from the Department of Early Childhood E6 These amounts shall be from local funds The L notation applies to these amounts F7 of this amount, $2,874,494, shall be from Title 4E of the Social Security Act and $251,180 shall be from the Title XX Social Services Block Grant G8 of these amounts, $139,669,689, shall be from Title 4E of the Social Security Act $18,648,592 shall be from the Title XX Social Services Block Grant $3,886,129 shall be from 9 Title IV B, Subpart 1, of the Social Security Act and $2,803,645 shall be from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant These amounts were assumed in developing 10 the appropriated fund source amounts in these line items The amount from Title IV E of the Social Security Act is reflected pursuant to Section 26-1-11, 2, D, 2, B, CRS and shall 11 be used in determining the amount to be deposited to the excess federal title 4e reimbursements cash fund pursuant to section 26-1-112 d2c crs of these amounts 12 100 000 from the title xx social services block grant is transferred to the department of early childhood for the child care assistance program page 201 house bill 26 to 1410 department of human services appropriation from item and subtotal total general fund cash funds reappropriated funds federal funds funds $$$$$$$. H1 for informational purposes, this amount includes $7,355,339 that is anticipated to be initially held out from state and federal funds that are allocated to county departments of social 2 services for the administration and provision of child welfare services, including the following estimated amounts. $3,208,511 for parental fee reimbursements to counties pursuant to 3 section 26-5-104, 2, CRS, $2,750,328 for transportation services for foster children and youth pursuant to section 22-32-138 CRS $950,000 for department approved child welfare for services that promote the safety and well-being of Native American children and youth $346,500 for a state-wide majority leader county administered foster homes and $100,000 five for contractual services related to the allocation of funds among counties the remaining $442,922,517 includes the state and
federal funds to be allocated to county departments of social Madam Majority Leader thank you Madam
Chair, pursuant to House Rule 27B, I move to suspend the reading of the bill in order to lay the bill over until tomorrow, April 10th, at which point the reading will resume where stopped. Members, for your information, this is a non-debatable motion. The question before us is to suspend the reading of HB 261410 at length in order to lay the bill over to tomorrow, April 10th.
All those in favor, please say aye.
Aye.
All opposed, please say no.
No. The motion passes. I'm sorry, maybe we should do that one more time No? Okay, Madam Majority Leader
Madam Chair, I move to lay over House Bill 1410 until April 10th
Seeing no objection, House Bill 1410 will be laid over until April 10th Okay, one more, are you ready?
Madam Majority Leader
Thank you Madam Chair, I move the committee rise and report
Seeing no objection, the committee will.
Thank you for
Thank you.
Mr. Schiebel, please read the report of the Committee of the Whole Madam Speaker, your Committee of the Whole begs leave to report as under consideration of the following attached bill being the second reading that will make the following recommendations they're on House Bill 1410 late over until April 10th, 2026
Assistant Majority Leader Bacon
Madam Speaker, I'm going to be adopted by the Committee of the Whole
The question before us is the adoption of the report of the Committee of the Whole Mr. Schiebel, please open the machine and members proceed to vote Representative Wilford, how do you vote?
Yes
Representative Wilford votes yes. Representative Weinberg, how do you vote? Representative Weinberg, you are on mute. Representative Weinberg is excused. Bottoms, DeGraff, English, Flanel, Froelich Richardson Routenel Bottoms, Brooks DeGraff, English, Flanel Froelich Richardson and Routenel excused Please close the machine. With 41 aye, 15 no, and 9 excused, the report is adopted. Madam Majority Leader? No, I've got some business, but... Madam Speaker, hang on just a moment. Let me make sure I get this correct. Then I'll do business. Madam Majority Leader?
Thank you.
Madam Majority Leader?
Thank you, Madam Speaker.
I move to lay over the balance of the calendar until Friday, April 10, 2026. Seeing no objection, the balance of the calendar will be laid over until tomorrow, April 10th. Madam Majority Leader, I have an announcement, but I'd like for you to set up our day for tomorrow.
Great. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Members, tomorrow we will be starting at 8.45 sharp a.m., and the dress code is relaxed. Thank you. Members, we have some business to attend to. I want to thank you for a good day's work. I want to appreciate the level of respect and civility that I saw today. We choose to show up in this job, and it is an honor to serve with all of you. I particularly want to take a moment and recognize that we sought our offices our staff has been here tonight not because they chose to I am deeply grateful to our nonpartisan staff here in the House in Legislative Council in Joint Budget Committee, in OLS, and every custodian, and the Colorado Channel. I am grateful to all of the staff members who stuck through this with us tonight. Please give them a round of applause. Thank you all. We have got some business to attend to. You are free to go. Mr. Schiebel,
reports of committees of reference. Committee on Judiciary. After consideration of the merits, the committee recommends the following House Bills 1148 and 1212 be postponed indefinitely. Message from the Senate.
Madam Speaker, the Senate has passed. Message from the Senate will be printed in the journal. Message from the revisor. We hear with trans. Message from the revisor will be printed in the journal. Introduction of bills. House Bill 1414 by Representatives McCluskey and Camacho, also Senators Roberts and Kipp, concerning the provision of medical records in the custody of certain health care entities. House Bill 1414 will be assigned to the Committee on Finance. House Bill 1415 by Representative Ricks, concerning a program for the permissive certification of residential construction contractors. House Bill 1415 will be assigned to the Committee on Business Affairs and Labor. Senate Bill 103 by Senators Colker and Marchman, also Representatives Bacon and Lukens, concerning public schools and a connection therewith, creating a specialized school policy for at-risk students. Senate Bill 103 will be assigned to the Committee on Education. Senate Bill 136 by Senators Pelton, Lauren Coleman, also Representatives English and Sucla, concerning the reporting of missing livestock to the Department of Agriculture. Senate Bill 136 will be assigned to the Committee on Agriculture, Water, and Natural Resources. Senate Bill 144 by Senators Frizzell and Lindstedt, also Representatives Winter and Camacho, concerning the collection of delinquent property taxes by tax lien sale and in connection therewith, modifying the structure and authority for treasurers to charge certain fees, amending the process for the sale of tax liens, and recreating and reenacting with amendments the process for obtaining a treasurer's deed after public auction of a property subject to tax lien. Senate Bill 144 will be assigned to the Committee on Finance. Senate Bill 153 by Senators Colchran Simpson, also Representatives Bacon and Martinez, concerning graduate academic requirements for a licensed school counselor and a connection there with establishing a minimum number of credit hours required for special services licensure with a school counselor endorsement. Senate Bill 153 will be assigned to the Committee on Education, Introduction of Resolutions. Senate Joint Resolution 16 by Senator Lindstedt, also Representative Stuart R., concerning the improvement of retirement readiness and financial well-being. Senate Joint Resolution 16 will be laid over one day under House rule. Senate Joint Resolution 18 by Senator Judal, also Representative Zokai, concerning recognizing the celebration of Nauru's and in connection therewith, expressing support for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Iranian people, including the ongoing struggle for equality embodied in the women's life freedom movement. Senate Joint Resolution 18 will be laid over one day under House rule. I have one announcement.
Did we get all the bills?
Yes. Yes, we did. I have one announcement. Pursuant to my authority as Speaker under House Rule 27A, subsection E, and at the sponsor's request, I direct the Chief Clerk to remove Representative Tigert's name as co-prime sponsor of House Bill 26-1411. Representative Emily Sirota will be added as co-prime in his place. Madam Majority Leader.
Madam Speaker, I move that the House stand. adjournments until Friday, April 10th at 8.45 a.m.
The House is adjourned until tomorrow at 8.45 a.m. Thank you.