Joint Budget Committee

Friday, March 27, 2026·3h 19m·▶ Watch / Listen

Key Actions

·LLS 0846 – Affordable Housing Finance Fund TransferPassed

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Controversies

Whether to add $10 million more in RAE incentive payment cuts

A committee member proposed an additional $10 million reduction in RAE incentive payments above a prior cut already taken, arguing it could be targeted to the physical health side. Rep. Taggart countered that the RAE in his western Colorado region is already on a razor-thin margin with capitation rates and reimbursements miles apart, and stated flatly: 'mine can't afford it. Just flat can't afford it.' Rep. Taggart argued that whether the cut is aimed at physical or behavioral health, 'it's still coming off of their bottom line.'

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Notable Quotes

“I think the current problem with making the title that much narrower again, maybe there's some way to do this is the fact that we're sending money to two different places from the uptf, and we can't in the title say transfer from the UPTF to. And so I'm not saying there's not a path forward, but I think that's why it's written the way it is. Vice Chair BRIDGES thank you, Madam Chair. I would an and in the title and a connection there with doing the things we've outlined. And then there is, well, so could we make an additional transfer of for an additional 45 million from the UPTF to the general fund. But in doing that, we will end the adult”
Vice Chair Jeff Bridges — Bridges was explaining why he wanted to cancel the two future automatic $30 million transfers from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to the Housing Development Grant Fund that remain in current statute.

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Votes

LLS 0846 – Affordable Housing Finance Fund transfer at $130 million (introduction)Passed

LLS 0930 – 2025 Consumer Price Index Calculation (introduction)Passed

LLS 0492 – Support of Coloradans with Disabilities (introduction)Passed

LLS 0912 – Disaster Emergency Fund Changes (introduction)Passed

LLS 0897 – Transfers from Unclaimed Property Trust Fund (introduction; revised draft to return)Passed

LLS 0892 – Repeal Bond Assistance Program Fund Transfer (approve updates and introduction)Passed

LLS 0753 – Healthy School Meals for All State Education Fund (introduction)No Vote

Reduce evidence-based policymaking and Governor's office MTCF lines by half; direct ~$750,000 to Lieutenant Governor's office for Youth Mental Health Services Corps with vague footnotePassed

Add DNR severance tax sweep portions to the transfer bill and bring back for review on MondayPassed

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TranscriptPreview

I think instead of starting on some of these comebacks listed or outstanding items, we're going to jump to some bill drafts that we have not yet approved. Director Harper just passed out a packet with three bills highlighted that we haven't yet taken up. And then Ms. Bickle passed out another. And then there was another that you should have from Director Harper on the consumer price index calculation, which he passed out yesterday. So hopefully all those are in front of you. All right. Ms. Bickel, we. Well, there is a question. We had the two options regarding the social studies assessment. Vice Chair Bridges, have you determined a preference for introduction? No. Oh my God. Actually, yeah. Okay. I wish you had shared that. Next, the Academic Accelerator Grant program. We currently have a bill draft that ends the this time limited grant program one year early. And we are currently reflecting an $8 million savings from that. Okay. We're just going in a random order, not at random. There's only three bill drafts that we haven't taken up. They're the ones that are highlighted. So we haven't done social studies and we haven't done the academic…

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