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Senate Business, Labor, & Technology
The Senate Business, Labor & Technology Committee unanimously advanced SB26-156, a bipartisan modernization of the Colorado Workforce Development Council's decade-old statutes that its sponsors touted as a rare money-saving efficiency bill, sending it to Appropriations.
Key Actions
·Change Practices of Work Force Development CouncilPassed
Notable Quotes
“When Mr. Santa Staven from the department approached me to see if I'd be interested in it, I think he knew I'd be more interested when he said that it saves some money.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, Iman Jodeh, Larry Liston, Nick Hinrichsen, Jessie Danielson
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Here with us today. We will go ahead and convene the Senate Business, labor and Technology Committee. Ms. Chapman, please call the roll. Senator Catlin. Here. Judah. Excused. Liston. Here. Henriksen. Here. Madam Chair. Here. All right. Thank you for being here. We have one item on the agenda. Senate Bill 156. Welcome Senators Kip and Carson. Who would like to begin? Senator Kip, thank you for hearing our bill today. Committee this is Senate Bill 150. This bill updates the statutory framework governing the Colorado Workforce Development Council, known as the cdwc. And I want to just tell you about the budget impact of this bill, since we're all thinking about that right now. In a year when we're looking carefully at every line of the state budget this bill generates, we get more money from it. Fund savings of just over 46,000 by streamlining the workload of the post secondary and workforce readiness coordinator and removing prescriptive requirements around career pathway development that no longer reflect how the work is actually done. The bill makes those savings possible and that matters in this budget environment. Although I was told that we don't actually personally get to take the…
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