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Joint Budget Committee

Wednesday, April 1, 2026·7h 18m·▶ Watch / Listen

Colorado's Joint Budget Committee closed out what members called the most challenging budget year in memory, introducing the FY2627 long bill and a raft of balancing bills that shrank a projected $740 million shortfall to roughly $3.6 million. Along the way the panel revisited state employee pay, held an HCPF audit bill for a redraft, and trimmed the in-state tuition increase.

Key Actions

·State employee compensation reconsideredPassed

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Notable Quotes

You all have shrunk a $740 million gap when you selected the forecast down to 3.6 million.

Craig Harper (JBC staff director) · witnessThe staff director's headline summary of how far the committee's actions narrowed a massive projected shortfall.

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It's. Yesterday we received some information, of course I have since lost about some proposed changes to the motions we made to total comp after, I don't know, maybe some back and forth between agencies and the JVC and trying to land in the right place for total components. And so yesterday evening the vice chair read into the record some proposed changes which he has before him and it would be my recommendation that we now actually move on these recommended changes to total Comp. Vice Chair Bridges thank you, Madam Chair. I move to reconsider the JBC's previous action on range adjustments and step like increases to employee compensation. The the committee's previous action was to fund a 0.6% step like adjustment and not to fund a range movement for state employees. Instead, I moved to fund a 1.0% salary range adjustment and a 1.0% step like adjustment for state employee compensation. Finally, I moved to allow staff to work with the governor's office and DPA to develop estimates by department, which I think has maybe already been done. Are there any objections? That passes on a vote of 520 with Kirkmeyer excused. All right, Director Harper, I
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Joint Budget Committee | Be On The Record