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Colorado lawmakers send $36.4 billion state budget to Polis
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The state House and Senate on Thursday signed off on the next fiscal year’s spending plan, but not without a few fireworks over what didn’t make it to the final budget. Notably, the two chambers agreed to reverse the Senate’s decision, which Republicans pushed, last week to add half a billion dollars in education funding. The…
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House approves Colorado’s $36.4 billion budget for next year, sends spending plan to Senate
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The House on Thursday approved the Colorado government’s spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year on a party-line vote and sent it to the state Senate for consideration. Lawmakers amended the $36.4 billion budget a dozen times on Wednesday, adding $63.5 million in cash and general fund dollars but stripping out $1.5 million in expansion…
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House lawmakers target embattled Office of Public Guardianship, reject funding for expansion
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Problems with the state’s Office of Public Guardianship, as reported by Colorado Politics last month, led state House lawmakers Wednesday to halt the program’s expansion. The decision to keep the program from expanding occurred during the debate in the legislature over the proposed 2022-23 state budget. Democratic Reps. Meg Froelich of Greenwood Village and Adrienne…
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House debate on state budget is short – but not sweet
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Beef sticks and nuclear power and wolves. Those are among the topics of amendments lawmakers offered in the state House Wednesday to modify the 2022-23 state budget package contained in the Long Appropriations Bill and more than a dozen additional measures designed to help balance the budget. The Long Bill and its additional measures won preliminary…
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Colorado’s lawmakers propose to spend $36.4 billion, which funds 3% raise for government workers
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Colorado’s lawmakers are proposing to spend $36.4 billion – about $3.5 billion more compared to current allocations – to fund state operations in the next fiscal year. Under the proposal, state employees will receive a 3% across the board raise, but no merit increases. Counting general fund money alone, the plan calls for major increases…
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With four weeks to go, hundreds of bills still await final action
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Wednesday marks the beginning of the last four weeks of Colorado’s 2018 General Assembly session. That means “hurry-up” time, with 295 bills (out of 615) on the House and Senate docket still looking for final action – and at least one more to come. The majority of those bills on final approach originated in the…
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Senate approves Colorado state budget on 26-8 vote
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The Colorado Senate Thursday put its vote of approval on the state 2018-19 budget that it spent 11 hours fighting over Wednesday night. The $28.9 billion budget bill and the 18 accompanying bills that help balance the budget now go back to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, which developed the budget. The JBC will be…
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Senate gives preliminary OK to 2018-19 state budget
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DENVER – The Colorado Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to House Bill 1322, the Long Appropriations Bill, working through 78 84 85 118 (oh heck, I give up!) amendments proposed to the $28.9 billion state budget into late Wednesday night. By evening’s end, the Senate managed to blow an even bigger hole in the state budget ($73 million…
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This Week at the Capitol: April 2-6
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Here are the legislative committee hearings of note for the week ahead at the Colorado Capitol. Committee schedules are subject to change. The daily schedule is available on the legislature’s website. Click here and scroll down to committee hearings to listen online. This week, the Senate will take up the Long Appropriations Bill, which is likely to be…
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Colo. House approves $29 billion state budget bill on bipartisan vote
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DENVER – The Colorado House of Representatives this morning approved the 2018-19 budget as contained in House Bill 1322 on a 42-22 vote, sending it on to the Senate. All House Democrats voted in favor of the $28.9 billion measure, along with six Republicans, including state Rep. Bob Rankin of Carbondale, who represents the Republican…
