Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee spent a marathon comeback session sparring with the executive branch over data it doesn't trust — clawing back empty spending authority, sweeping stray cash funds, and splitting on a string of governor's-office requests, from a $20 million competency placeholder submitted 'on April Fool's Day' to a delayed cap on Cover All Coloradans. Several bills were sent to draft or introduced to run with the long bill, while others were held or dropped.
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Sign in to subscribeThe Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We have. I don't know. I'm not sure where the best place to start is. We have a few comebacks from staff that we could start with, or we could start working through the OSPB comebacks, which would also require staff. Do we want to start with packet two? Director Harper, Sorry, tab 2, packet 14 of comebacks. Either way, Madam Chair, I don't know what's easier for the staff in terms of, like, churning out some of these OSPB comebacks. We can go by department and do that, too. I was anticipating OSPB for the. And let's do that. Fine. But either way. Either way is fine. Okay. So yesterday, I think we took care of a number of CDEC comebacks and also public Safety. So, Doc, I think would be. We did Burnham yards. So we could start on DPA or we could start on hicpuff. Okay, well. Okay. Tap two. All right, so that's Mr. Thompson. Oh, Thank you, Madam Chair. Scott Thompson, Joint Budget Committee staff. We're in comeback packet 14, the gray packet. And on page two, I have a analysis of a footnote that slides Senator…
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