The act requires, in state fiscal year 2022-23 only, and within available appropriations, that the department of education (department) distribute supplemental payments to facility schools approved by the department as of October 1, 2022. The supplemental payments must be above and beyond the current daily per pupil revenue rate as established for the 2022-23 state fiscal year. The act appropriates $5,134,000 to the department from the state education fund for supplemental payments to facility schools. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Based on the findings and recommendations of the committee on legal services, the act extends all state agency rules that were adopted or amended on or after November 1, 2020, and before November 1, 2021. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under existing law, the keeper of a jail is required to submit a quarterly report of inmate information to the division of criminal justice within the department of public safety (division), and the division is required to publish that information in a searchable and sortable format. That requirement is set to repeal on January 31, 2023. The act strikes the repeal. The act requires the inmate information collected to include each inmate's age. For the 2022-23 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $4,918 from the general fund and authorizes 0.1 FTE to the department of public safety for use by the division of criminal justice for administrative services. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review and report on the second chance scholarship program by repealing the program. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, provides for the payment of expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado, and of its agencies and institutions. The grand total for the operating budget is set at $37,736,904,638. The general funds portion of the appropriation is set at $10,446,821,790; the general fund exempt portion is set at $3,212,346,213; the cash funds portion is set at $9,971,918,141; the reappropriated funds portion is set at $2,356,087,392; and federal funds portion is set at $11,749,731,102. The grand total for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, for capital construction projects is set at $491,102,435.The capital construction fund portion is set at $5,246,375; the cash funds portion is set at $484,090,730; and the federal funds portion is set at $1,765,330. The grand total for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, for information technology projects is set at $146,428,435. The capital construction fund portion is set at $109,102,442; the cash funds portion is set at $17,186,989; and the federal funds portion is set at $20,139,004. The 2021 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the departments of education, health care policy and financing, higher education, law, and public safety. The 2021 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated for capital construction projects. Appropriations were made in several bills during the 2021 legislative session as further amended to extend the appropriation for unexpended amounts to the 2022-23 fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The length of the bill summary for this bill requires it to be published on a separate page here: https://leg.colorado.gov/hb22-1295-bill-summary (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law allows the clerk of the court to retain 5% of the drug offender surcharge and the rural alcohol and substance abuse surcharge for the administration of the disbursement of the surcharges. The retained 5% of both surcharges are kept on a balance sheet account and expenses are identified to offset this revenue. To simplify the process by which this 5% of surcharge revenue is retained, section 2 of the act requires that the revenue be deposited directly into the judicial stabilization cash fund instead. Under current law, the courts' collections investigator program is funded by the fines collection cash fund and the judicial collection enhancement fund. To eliminate the inefficiency of administering 2 cash funds, section 1 eliminates the fines collection cash fund and requires all fines previously required to be deposited in that fund to instead be deposited in the judicial collection enhancement cash fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
On July 1, 2022, the act transfers: $350,394,004 from the general fund to the affordable housing and home ownership cash fund; $350,394,004 from the affordable housing and home ownership cash fund to the revenue loss restoration cash fund; $4,639,443 from the general fund to the capital construction fund; $122,225,865 from the general fund to the information technology capital account of the capital construction fund; and $500,000 from the general fund exempt account of the general fund to the capital construction fund. The state treasurer and the state controller transferred $110,000,000 from the general fund to the controlled maintenance trust fund to be appropriated in the 2022-23 state fiscal year for controlled maintenance budget requests prioritized by the office of the state architect as level one and level two priority projects. The act eliminates the requirement that the transferred money be appropriated for the 2022-23 state fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Senate Bill 21-291 transferred $40 million of "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" (ARPA) money from the economic recovery and relief cash fund to the Colorado economic development fund and directed the office of economic development and international trade (OEDIT) to use $10 million of the money transferred to incentivize small businesses to locate in rural Colorado and for the location neutral employment incentive program. To ensure that the use of the $10 million complies with ARPA requirements, the act instead directs OEDIT to use the money to incentivize or support businesses in rural Colorado or to undertake any other economic development activity in rural Colorado that is authorized by specified current law in response to the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The state treasurer is required to transfer $24,131,390 from the revenue loss restoration cash fund to the judicial department information technology cash fund on July 1, 2022. The money transferred to the judicial department information technology cash fund is subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly to the judicial department for information technology infrastructure upgrades from the 2022-23 fiscal year through the 2024-25 fiscal year. The judicial department is required to expend or encumber the money transferred to the judicial department information technology cash fund prior to December 31, 2024. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the state personnel director (director) of the department of personnel is required to annually conduct surveys and produce a report concerning compensation to determine any necessary adjustments to state employee salaries, state contributions for group benefit plans, and merit pay. The act instead requires the director to conduct surveys and produce the report every 4 years. The act also changes certain reporting deadlines of the director relating to the compensation report and removes certain substantive components of the report. The act decreases the general fund appropriation made to the department of personnel for use by the division of human resources for total compensation and employee engagement surveys related to state agency services in the annual general appropriation act for the 2022-23 state fiscal year by $300,000 and appropriates $147,429 from the general fund to the department of personnel for implementation of the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to do the following, with respect to nursing facility providers (nursing facilities): Issue additional supplemental payments as directed for the 2021-22 state fiscal year; Establish reporting and result tracking requirements necessary to administer additional supplemental funding; Pursue federal matching funds to reduce the state share of costs to the maximum amount possible; and Engage with stakeholders to produce a report including ways to improve methodology, practices regarding care and services to compassionate release individuals from the department of corrections, and funding for nursing facilities. The department shall submit the report to the joint budget committee and committees of the general assembly on or before November 1, 2022. The act grants the department authority to promulgate rules as necessary for implementation of the payments and their supporting requirements. The supplemental payments and their supporting requirements are repealed, effective July 1, 2023. For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $17,000,500 is appropriated to the department of health care policy and financing for use by medical services premiums based on the assumption that the department will receive federal funds to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
