393EC0307BDA54C487258C2E007F58D6 Hearing Summary

PUBLIC
BILL SUMMARY For BUDGET DECISION ITEMS

JOINT COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Date Feb 11, 2025
Location SCR 354

Budget Decision Items - Committee Discussion Only

Attachment Tag

File Name

Attachment B

Attachment C

Attachment D

Attachment E

04:11:01 PM

Director Natalie
Castle, representing Legislative Council Staff, discussed the budget decision
items before the committee, including organizational dues (Attachment B),
letter and resolution committees, and the Colorado Youth Advisory Council.
She spoke about staff and legislator participation in training and other
meetings held by the National Conference on State Legislatures, the Council
of State Governments, and the Education Council of the States. She responded
to questions from the committee.

04:20:30 PM	Motion	Approve funding for $250,754 for NCSL, $162,081 for CSG-West, and $77,300 for the Education Commission of the States.
	Moved	McCluskie
	Seconded

	Duran	Yes
	Lundeen	No
	Pugliese	No
	Rodriguez	Yes
	McCluskie	Yes
	Coleman	Yes
		YES: 4 NO: 2 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

04:20:32 PM

Ms. Burger returned
to the table to talk about letter and Executive Committee resolution interim
committees (Attachment C). The committee discussed the cost savings for
eliminating interim committees completely. Minority Leader Lundeen advocated
for eliminating all of the committees for the upcoming interim. Discussion
turned to eliminating letter committees, but allowing some statutory committees
to move forward.

04:30:36 PM

Discussion continued about the funding of committees that meet in the interim. The President announced that a decision would be postponed until a later date,

04:35:19 PM	Motion	Approve funding for no more than one Executive Committee resolution committee for up to three meetings with up to six members on the committee.
	Moved	McCluskie
	Seconded

	Duran	Yes
	Lundeen	Yes
	Pugliese	Yes
	Rodriguez	Yes
	McCluskie	Yes
	Coleman	Yes
		YES: 6 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

04:36:35 PM	Motion	Approve funding for no interim letter committees.
	Moved	Lundeen
	Seconded

	Duran	Yes
	Lundeen	Yes
	Pugliese	Yes
	Rodriguez	Yes
	McCluskie	Yes
	Coleman	Yes
		YES: 6 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

04:36:37 PM

Director Castle spoke
about funding the Colorado Youth Advisory Council at $50,000. The committee
chose to postpone a decision. The committee discussed a bill that would
be required to abolish the committee.

04:41:22 PM

The discussion turned
to special session costs (Attachment D). The committee discussed offering
a legislative budget supplemental to cover the cost of a potential special
session. They also spoke about funding for legislative aides (Attachment
E) and conversations that have been had with groups of aides for additional
compensation. Discussion turned to benefits packages for aides.

Budget Decision Items - Committee Discussion Only

Colorado General Assembly