The Colorado House Education Committee advanced two bills unanimously and 10-3, respectively: a cleanup bill making an annual state auditor examination of school capital construction discretionary rather than mandatory, and a bill granting elected student and faculty representatives on the Auraria Board of Directors full voting rights.
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“In 2021 when we confirmed that the Senate in House Education committees and the JBC education analysts were not using the required annual school capital construction report, the Legislative Audit Committee sponsored a bill which repealed the section and statute for the reporting related to the examination. However, that bill did not repeal the annual examination language, which is why we are proposing this bill today.”
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Sign in to subscribeMr. Beck, please call the roll representatives Bacon. Bradfield. Bradfield. Here. Flannel. Garcia. Sander. Present. Gilchrist. Here. Hamrick. Here. Hartsuk. Here. Johnson. Phillips. Yes. Stuart K. Here. Story. Here. Martinez. Presente. Madam Chair. Here. Okay. And our bill sponsors are here. Today we are hearing two bills, House Bill 1191 and Senate Bill 34. We will start with House Bill 1191. Who would like to kick us off? Rep. Johnson thank you Madam Chair and thank you. Committee House Bill 261161 came unanimously out of the Audit committee. And so what this bill would do is it would revise the requirement that states the state auditor should annually examine the amount of state education funds on school capital construction projects and instead make this review at the state auditor's discretion. Thank you. Ham Hill Bacon Sorry. We tried to coordinate our presentation the Building excellent Schools Today grant so best the legislation passed in 2008 and it changed the state source of funding for school district capital construction. As a result, only charter schools capital construction projects have been expended from the state education fund since that time. However, there's a gap in the law in that the statute in…
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