Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee spent an after-adjournment session staring down grim numbers, cleared routine legislative-branch appropriations, and walked away from a governor's TABOR-refund maneuver that staff and legal counsel warned could invite a losing lawsuit and jeopardize the state's clean audit opinion.
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“Madam Chair, I think that's a more blunt but potentially accurate encapsulation of what I'm saying. But I do think that level of uncertainty, combined with TABOR's requirements for refunding the amount that was collected above the cap every year, opens up a degree of legal uncertainty and legal risk that concerns me with this particular proposal.”
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Sign in to subscribeIt's. Afternoon. The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. Director Harper, what shall we tackle first? Thank you, Madam Chair. CRAIG harper, JBC Staff I think let's get the easiest one out of the way first. I expect it to be very quick. We'll go behind tab one. Okay. This is the first round of actually it's my first round with you all. Maybe the second bounce of a ping pong ball as I bounce back and forth between you all and the executive committee. Been talking to them about employee compensation, common policies, and now I'm bringing their recommendations to you or their decisions to you for a variety of line items that will be in the long bill for the Legislative branch. As you all are aware, the vast majority of the legislative branch's funding is carried in a separate bill each year, the legislative appropriation bill. The long bill carries a very small number of appropriations in it and they're all included in this particular packet. They fall into two categories. One is studies that are required either by the Constitution or by statute. So every other year you do a school finance study, a school…
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