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This Week at the Capitol: April 9-13
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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. MONDAY Colorado Independent Ethics Commission, 9 a.m., Colorado Judicial Building, Room 1CThe commission is expected…
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What to look for as lawmakers begin debate on Colorado’s 2018-19 state government budget
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On Monday the House will begin working on the 2018-19 budget, as contained in the Long Appropriations Bill crafted by the Joint Budget Committee (JBC). The JBC has been working on the state budget for the upcoming fiscal year since November 1, when Gov. John Hickenlooper submitted his proposal. They wrapped up their final work…
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Hickenlooper signs ‘Long Bill,’ applauds bipartisan collaboration on state budget
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday signed the upcoming year’s budget, known as the Long Appropriations Bill, praising legislators on both sides of the aisle for coming together to avert “draconian” cuts while safeguarding spending on health care and schools. Senate Bill 254 sets a $28.7 billion budget for the state for the 2017-18 fiscal year,…
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Without companion legislation, Colorado budget is out of balance
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The $26.8 billion state budget has passed both chambers, but it is out of balance without further action by the legislature. When the House on Monday passed the annual spending plan on a vote of 38-27, with the majority of Republicans opposing the so-called “Long Bill,” it delayed passage of a handful of “orbital” bills that…
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Noonan: TABOR is 25 and too alive and too well
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Colorado’s population in 1992 was 3.5 million. Census projections put the state’s population in 2017 at 5.5 million. In 1992, 812,308 citizens – 53.68 percent of voters – said yes to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), and 700,906 citizens – 46.32 percent of voters – said no. Not to make too fine a point,…
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In budget debate, Everett comes out swinging for transportation
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House Rep. Justin Everett, a Littleton Republican and one of the caucus’s reliably hardliners, launched debate on budget bills proposing amendments that seek to make the point that there’s plenty of money in the $26.8 billion budget to support overdue transportation upgrades and expansion. House Republicans strongly oppose a plan backed by legislative leaders this…
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Legislative leaders sound skeptical on provider fee switch, trans bond funding
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The budget is signed, but that doesn’t mean fighting over revenue has ended in the Legislature. During a budget singing in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office Tuesday, Senate Pres. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, and Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, indicated that the potential of a hospital provider fee reclassification and a transportation bond…
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Budget long bill’s long journey almost complete
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Lawmakers tasked with reconciling the House and Senate versions of the $27 billion budget long bill on Wednesday made fast work of the job, pushing aside the most glaring political additions to the bill made over the last two weeks of floor debate. The group restored some of the money cut by the Senate for…
