Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee ground through a marathon of Corrections and Medicaid budget comebacks, holding together on most staff recommendations but splitting hard over new prison beds, soft caps on caregiver hours for medically fragile children, and a raft of behavioral-health cuts. The sharpest fights turned on cuts landing repeatedly on the same disabled and low-income families and on a federal HR1 compliance scramble members likened to building a plane mid-flight.
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“I would like to just draw the committee's attention to a letter that we all received from Colorado Winds in which they asked us to reject this proposal because they feel like us adding more beds is going to make their staff a lot less safe, not more safe.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe joint budget committee will come to order. We have hicpuff supplementals to try and finish today. But before we get to that, we're going to consider the comeback requests that we have left undone, starting with the judicial department. Any indication from committee members about what you would like to do on this comeback? It Vice Chair Bridges. Thank you, Madam Chair. It. I think we can do it. And for the furniture, maybe they can borrow some from the legislature. Too soon? Too soon. Not for me, thanks to the handful of chuckles in the audience. Is that what the staff recommendation? The speaker's not listening right now. It's okay. Yeah. I think the it portion of this, but not the, like chairs and whatnot. Ms. Bickle, is that clear? Absolutely. I had just given you something with, like, if you want to do the thing as I'd recommended it, you know, I will say you could do it with. Run a bill. You could do a footnote. You could also. You could also reduce their HLD line item. You know, I guess I've been thinking of this as a supplemental, but it's. And thinking about 26, 27…
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