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1872 Mining Law

2010-01-13T03:09:37+02:00

The law that governs hard rock mining in America was passed by Congress and signed by President Grant in 1872. That was back when Horace Greeley popularized the command “Go West, Young Man.” At the time, the federal government was try populate the frontier; cheap and free land was one of the incentives it used to lure people west.

193rd Military Police Battalion

2009-12-07T23:05:51+02:00

The 193rd Military Police Battalion is part of the Colorado Army National Guard. They're headquartered at the Denver armory in Globeville. The battalion supports seven separate units: * 86th Military Intelligence Co. * 101st Army Band * 104th Public Affairs Det. * HHC 193rd MP Bn. * 1917th Contracting Team * 220th Military Police Co.

202 Projects

2009-11-02T05:34:14+02:00

202 projects are higher education capital construction projects that colleges and universities pay for themselves, usually with student fees, gifts or research funding. SB92-202 set up a process for quickly reviewing self-funded higher education buildings so that the legislature wouldn't delay them. Since the legislature only meets from January to May, waiting for the capital_development_committee and the joint_budget_commitee to review and approve the projects could add costs and possibly ca…

Absconder

2009-11-02T06:52:15+02:00

A parolee who has changed his/her place of residence without prior notification and approval of his/her community parole officer, has failed to report as directed, and whose whereabouts are unknown. Justice, Glossary

Accelerating Students through Concurrent Enrollment

2010-03-09T11:26:17+02:00

Beginning in the 2010‐11 school year, districts can participate in the Accelerating Students through Concurrent Enrollment (ASCENT) program. The ASCENT program permits eligible students to participate in a “5th year” of high school while enrolled in college courses.

Activities of Daily Living

2009-11-03T23:10:01+02:00

Activities of daily living (ADLs) are the things people have to be able to do in order to live on their own without help. They're used specifically to determine if a person is eligible for Medicaid Long-Term Care services. These are the ADLs used to determine eligibility for Medicaid long-term services:

Actuarial equivalent

2009-11-02T06:52:51+02:00

Actuarial equivalent is a way of comparing health insurance plans based on how much they cost. Two plans that are actuarial equivalents will cost the insurance companies the same amount. It might seems as if they should cost the same to whomever is paying the premiums, but that's not necessarily the case. Two insurers might have different overhead or profit margins. Actuarially-equivalent plans also don't necessarily offer thebenefits. Whatever benefits they offer just wind up costing the …

Adam Walsh Child Protection Act

2009-11-02T08:14:24+02:00

The Adam Walsh Child Protection Act sets national standards for handling sex offenders. It took effect in July of 2006. Under the law, states have three years to meet the federal standards for sex offenders. States that don't comply could lose 10% of their federal law enforcement grant money.

2009 Bills that Add GF Revenue

2009-11-02T07:21:47+02:00

Bills that Add Revenue Bills Amount S.B. 09-279 (Cash Fund Transfer to Augment General Fund) $109,306,374S.B. 09-273 (Pinnacol Assurance) 500,000,000 S.B. 09-275 (Eliminate Sales Tax Vendor Fee) 31,100,000S.B. 09-264 (Increased Medicaid Federal Match) 18,916,064S.B. 09-272 (Colorado High Cost Fund) 15,000,000 S.B. 09-266 (Noncitizen Old Age Eligibility Pension) 7,755,215S.B. 09-270 (Tobacco Tax Investment Income Transfers) 3,000,000S.B. 09-259 (Transfer Insurance …

Administrative Law Judge Services

2009-07-21T09:48:00+02:00

Funds for Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) services are included for the twelve departments that use such services. The recommended billing is calculated by applying each department's percentage of actual ALJ use in FY 2007-08 to the Administrative Courts' overhead (personal services, centrally appropriated line items such as health, life, and dental and short-term disability insurance, operating expenses, and indirect costs). In FY 2009-10, spending authority for the Administrative Courts totals …

Administrative Regulation Index

2009-11-02T06:57:57+02:00

The Dept. of Corrections Administrative Regulation Index (AR Index) lists all of the department's administrative regulations along with key information about the regulations. Click here for a PDF copy of the regulations. Dept. of Corrections, Justice, Glossary

ADP Capital Outlay and Information Technology Asset Maintenance

2009-05-30T21:38:34+02:00

These line items fund the replacement or addition of automated data processing equipment. Automated Data Processing (ADP) Capital Outlay is the common title for one-time, incidental information technology appropriations. The Information Technology Asset Maintenance line item is used by departments to fund network maintenance, hardware and software maintenance contracts, and anti-virus software. Requests for these items are reviewed by the Governor's Office of Information Technology.

Adult Comprehensive Services

2009-12-10T19:02:09+02:00

Comp services help adults with Developmental Disabilities who need round-the-clock care and don't live with their families. The services help people live as normal a life as possible. They include: * A place to live with constant supervision * Help learning life skills, getting a job and participating in a community * Transportation * Medical equipment and supplies * Skilled Nursing help * Behavioral and mental health services * Dental and eye care

Adult Protection Hot-line

2009-12-14T08:57:49+02:00

800-773-1366

Adult Substance Use Survey - Revised

2009-11-02T06:59:49+02:00

The Adult Substance Use Survey - Revised (ASUS-R) is a self-report assessment develops a profile of an offenders’ substance abuse history. Justice, Glossary

Advanced Technology Grants

2009-11-16T07:51:47+02:00

In the Dept. of Higher Education, Advanced Technology Grants have been replaced by the Higher Education Competitive Research Authority. SB 07-182 made the change. Funding comes from the waste tire fee. Budget, Dept. of Higher Education, Higher Education, Federal, Taxes & Fees

Aging in place

2009-12-14T08:57:49+02:00

Aging in place means not having to move from one’s present residence in order to secure necessary support services in response to changing needs. Health

Agricultural Assessment

2010-01-13T03:11:20+02:00

Agricultural property is assessed differently than other property; it's value is based on the amount it earns through farming or ranching. That's in the state constitution. The amount a property earns is the landlords average net income over 10 years.

Agricultural Commission

2010-02-16T05:20:41+02:00

The Colorado Agricultural Commission oversees the Dept. of Agriculture, recommends policies and approves rules. There are nine members of the commission. They're appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Agricultural Commission website

Agricultural Land

2010-01-13T03:19:06+02:00

Agricultural land is assessed at the Agricultural Assessment rate for property tax purposes. There are three kinds of land that can be assessed as agricultural property: * Farms and ranches that are working (or in the Conservation Reserve Program) and have been for the last two years. * Forty acres or more of forest that is producing lumber for sale. * Eighty acres or more of land that was assessed as agricultural land when it was put into a conservation easement.

Dept. of Agriculture Budget

2009-12-14T08:57:50+02:00

Quick Summary * Eliminating salary survey and performance pay cuts the Department's budget by: * $839,590 total * $336,747 General Fund * Adds $793,370, including $313,771 General Fund, for salary and benefit adjustments * Increases $749,777 cash funds spending authority from the Agriculture Management Fund and reduces 3.0 FTE appropriated in the previous fiscal year by H.B. 08-1399. * Provides $100,069 cash funds spending authority for the replacement of a large-scale measur…

Agriculture Management Fund

2010-01-15T20:46:17+02:00

The Agriculture Management Fund can be used to pay for “agricultural efforts”, hiring employees at the “Dept. of Agriculture”, and subsidies to Conservation Districts. Spending from the Fund Summary of Changes to Proposed Expenditures from Agricultural Management Fund for FY 2009-10 Program Proposed Expenditures Revised Expenditures Difference Mass Spectrometer 135,000 135,000 …

Agritourism

2010-01-15T21:08:48+02:00

State law) defines “agritourism” as: "the practice of engaging in activities, events, and services that have been provided to consumers for recreational, entertainment, or educational purposes at a farm, ranch, or other agricultural, horticultural, or agribusiness operation in order to allow consumers to experience, learn about, and participate in various facets of agricultural industry, culinary pursuits, natural resources, and heritage."

Aid to the Blind

2009-12-14T08:57:50+02:00

Aid to the Blind offers $637 a month (2009) to Coloradans who are blind, between the ages of 18 and 59, get federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI), but don't get the full federal grant amount. There are usually very few people enrolled in Aid to the Blind.

Aid to the Needy Disabled

2009-11-07T07:15:03+02:00

Colorado's Aid To The Needy Disabled (AND) programs gives a small amount of cash to people who have little or no income and a disability that keeps them from working. The Aid to the Needy Disabled - State Only (AND-SO) program offers cash payments to help support people while they're waiting to receive federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Aid to the Needy Disabled - Colorado Supplement Program (AND-CSP) offers $637 a supplemental payment to people who aren't getting the full federal SSI…

Air Pollution

2009-12-14T09:53:31+02:00

Carbon Dioxide

Air Quality Nonattainment Area

2010-01-19T18:44:54+02:00

An Air Quality Nonattainment Area (NAA) is a part of the country that is not meeting federal air quality standards as set out in the federal Clean Air Act. EPA makes the designation. Nonattainment When a region violates air pollution standards the EPA designates it a nonattainment area. The designation puts enormous pressure on local governments to clean up the air enough to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

All Payer Claims Database

2009-12-11T02:13:57+02:00

Maine Health Data Organization website, which manages the state's all-payer claims database. The Maine Health Data Processing Center, which builds and maintains the Maine Health Care Claims Data Bank

Ambulatory Restraint

2009-11-02T07:02:43+02:00

Ambulatory restraint uses a mechanical devices to limit how much a parson can move his arms and legs while still letting the person move around. The devices are usually made of cloth or metal. Justice, Glossary

Amendment 23

2009-07-23T00:24:11+02:00

Amendment 23 to the Colorado Constitution requires the state to increase funding for schools each year and created a trust fund to help sustain those increases. It was approved by voters in 2000. Specific Requirements of Amendment 23 The overall goal of Amendment 23 was to restore Colorado's K-12 funding to its level before the cuts of the 1990s, then make sure it at least keeps pace with inflation. It achieves those goals through a few mechanisms.

Amendment 35

2009-12-19T01:42:32+02:00

On Nov. 2, 2004 voters in Colorado passed Amendment 35 to the state constitution which increased the tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products to pay for health programs: * Increased the tax on cigarettes by 64 cents to a total of 84 cents per pack * Increased the tax on other tobacco products, like chewing tobacco and cigars, by 20%.

Amendment 37

2010-04-08T00:10:42+02:00

Amendment 37, approved by Colorado voters in 2004, required large electric utilities to generate 10% of their power from renewable sources by 2015. Amendment 37 put in place a Renewable Portfolio Standard for electric utilities in Colorado that serve more than 40,000 customers. It ultimately requires them to generate 10% of their electricity using renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass, but it gets to that level in steps:

American Correctional Association

2009-11-02T07:05:26+02:00

The American Correctional Association (ACA) is a national organization that sets standards for prisons and prison operations. It accredits prisons that meet its criteria. ACA website Justice, Glossary

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

2009-05-30T21:41:16+02:00

The federal government says the purpose of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is to create and save jobs, jumpstart our economy, and build the foundation for long-term economic growth. The Act includes measures to modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, increase access to health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need.

Amortization Equalization Disbursement

2009-11-02T07:10:19+02:00

The Amortization Equalization Disbursement increases the employer contribution to the PERA Trust Fund to amortize the unfunded liability in the Trust Fund beginning in January 2006. The Budget Request for this line is computed per the Office of State Planning and Budgeting’s (OSPB) budget instructions. The rate is provided by the Dept. of Personnel and Administration (DPA) and is calculated using the sum of base salaries, Salary Survey, Performance-Based Pay and Shift Differential.

Amusement Rides

2010-01-13T03:20:00+02:00

What's an amusement ride? No, you don't necessarily have to be amused while riding it. In fact, you can be downright stick to your stomach. State law says an amusement ride is “any mechanized device that carries passengers along a restricted course for amusement purposes.” That means roller coasters, ferris wheels and even bungee jumping. It excludes things you operate yourself, like the coin-operated mini-carousel outside the grocery store and the see-saw at the playground.

area_median_income

2010-02-19T23:51:49+02:00

In 2009 Colorado's statewide area median income (AMI) was $55,276.

Arkansas Valley Conduit

2009-04-13T07:40:44+02:00

The Arkansas Valley Conduit will take water from Pueblo Reservoir and distribute it to communities along the Arkansas River as far as Lamar. The water will supply nearly 70,000 people and some industries along the route. The total length of the Conduit will be more than 160 miles.

Arveschoug-Bird Spending Limit

2009-11-02T07:15:21+02:00

Arveschoug-Bird, or the 6% Spending Limit, limits the amount state state spending from the The General Fund (GF) can increase each year to, you guessed it, 6%. It passed in 1991 and lowered and existing spending limit, the Kadlecek|Amendment, from 7% to 6%.

Augmentation Plans

2010-01-13T03:21:23+02:00

Water augmentation plans let people with junior water rights use water when or where it's convenient for them provided they replace it before someone with senior water right holder needs it. A typical example would be a farmer a few miles from a river pumping groundwater to irrigate his crops. Even though the water is flowing underground and away from the river, it's still part of the river system. That means the pumping is actually taking water from the river.

Automatic meter reading

2009-11-02T09:03:39+02:00

Automatic meter reading (AMR) lets utilities record customers' use of a resource without actually looking at a meter. AMR can send the data all the way to the utility's central office, or broadcast it a short distance via a radio signal so it can be read from a passing vehicle.

Automobile Inspection and Readjustment Program

2009-12-02T01:52:51+02:00

The Automobile Inspection and Readjustment Program (AIR) requires regular emissions testing on cars and light trucks registered in a polluted area. Vehicles that emit too much pollution have to be repaired and pass a restest before they can be registered.

Behavioral Health Organizations

2010-01-21T23:06:19+02:00

Behavioral Health Organizations (BHOs) manage our Medicaid Mental Health Capitation Program. There are five of them and each one covers a portion of the state. The Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing pays each BHO a fixed amount of money each month for each Medicaid-eligible person in the BHO's region. It's called a per-member, per-month payment. The payment's not for each Medicaid client who has a mental illness; it's a payment for each person in the region who is eligible for Medic…

Beneficial Use

2010-01-13T03:22:41+02:00

Beneficial use is the key qualification to Colorado's prior appropriation system of water rights. Just diverting water first isn't enough to get a water right, you also have to be using it for something useful. Sounds kind of redundant, but it's to keep people from speculating with water, or wasting water.

Bills

2009-12-11T02:13:28+02:00

Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act

Blue River Decrees

2010-01-13T03:36:41+02:00

The settlement, known collectively as the Blue River Decrees, was crafted after the federally owned Green Mountain Reservoir was completed in 1943. Climax Mine Issue Under the decrees, the City of Denver and Green Mountain Reservoir can divert water from the Blue River ahead of the Climax Mine.

Board of Assessment Appeals

2009-05-16T04:06:36+02:00

The Board of Assessment Appeals is a quasi-judicial body that operates as a ”Type 1 Agency” within the Dept. of Local Affairs. The Board hears appeals by individual taxpayers who disagree with county boards of equalization, county boards of commissioners, and the Property Tax Administrator on the valuation of real and personal property, property tax abatements (reductions), and property tax exemptions. The Board offers a lower-cost alternative to the courts, and the Board members have expertis…

Board of Parks and Outdoor Recreation

2009-12-14T09:02:03+02:00

The Board of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, usually called the Colorado State Parks Board, oversees and advises the Division of State Parks within the Dept. of Natural Resources. The board has five members, four from geographic regions (North, West, South and Metro) and one at-large. They're appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate.

Bombing Colorado

2010-01-13T03:38:41+02:00

In Isaiah it says: “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” “And their nuclear bombs into bulldozers, and drilling rigs,” the Atomic Energy Commission added in 1958. That was the start of Project Plowshare, a plan to use nuclear bombs for peaceful purposes. The plan included blasting open a new harbor in Alaska, developing “clean” nuclear explosions for everyday excavation, blowing open aquifers in New Mexico (Energy Water?) and – in Colorado — using nu…

Colorado Branches of Government

2009-11-02T07:27:42+02:00

Colorado has three Branches of Government: * the Legislative Branch * the Executive Branch * the Judicial Branch Each has its own powers which are described in the Colorado Constitution.

Colorado's Budget

2009-12-03T09:44:57+02:00

General Fund Revenue in FY2009-10 Budget Overview FY 2009-10 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Go to the Annual Budgets page to find out about Colorado State Budgets for specific years. 202 Projects Here's a list of pages tagged “Budget”:

FY 2009-10 Appropriations by Department

2009-11-02T07:25:08+02:00

2009-10 Appropriations by Department Department Total General Funds Cash Funds Reappropriated Funds Federal Funds Agriculture $39,748,816 $7,286,514 $27,341,945 $1,120,606 $3,999,751Corrections $769,095,971 $686,538,581 $40,079,560 $41,882,323 $595,507Education $4,689,584,541 $3,240,637,572 $815,686,833 $22,782,063 $610,478,073Governor $121,135,212 $11,821,171 $25,961,605 $50,371,457 $32,980,979HCPF $4,121,424,481 $1,666,451,106 $409,235,147 …

Annual Budgets

2009-11-11T23:00:28+02:00

These items link to budgets for individual fiscal years. FY 2010-11 FY 2009-10 Budgets Budget

Buena Vista Correction Complex

2009-12-14T09:56:31+02:00

The Buena Vista Correction Complex (BVCC) has three facilities: * Buena Vista Correctional Facility (BVCF) - a medium-security prison. * Buean Vista Minimum Center (BVMC) - a minimum-security prison. * Colorado Corrections Alternative Program (CCAP) - a boot camp for both male and female, non-violent offenders.

Building Excellent Schools Today

2010-01-16T02:21:27+02:00

Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) is a plan passed by the legislature in 2008 to invest up to $1 billion in building and repairing schools in the Colorado's poorest school district. The state will pay for the construction by issuing bonds backed by revenue from the State Trust Lands.

Building Regulation Fund

2010-02-16T09:35:29+02:00

The Building Regulation Fund pays for the Manufactured Buildings Program, which regulates and inspects companies that sell manufactured homes, the installation of manufactured homes and other factory-built structures. Funding the Fund Money in the fund comes from fees collected from companies that build and sell manufactured homes.

Burial Assistance

2009-12-14T09:02:04+02:00

Burial Assistance pays funeral costs for people who had been getting Aid to the Needy Disabled (AND), Aid to the Blind (AB), Old Age Pension (OAP), or Medicaid. The cost of offering the benefit for the various programs is: * OAP - just under $1 million a year * AND and AB - about $500,000 (the state share is about $400,000 and counties pay about $100,000)

Business Enterprise Program

2009-11-07T08:06:14+02:00

The Business Enterprise Program (BEP) helps people who are legally blind start and run businesses, like the cafeteria in the basement of the state capitol. Dept. of Human Services, Safety Net

Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Pulmonary Disease Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Program

2009-12-19T03:04:52+02:00

The name does a good job of describing the program; it grants money to prevent, detect and treat cancer, cardiovascular disease and pulmonary disease. The name is usually shortened to CCPD. Grants The program works by granting money to Grant applications shall address at least one of the following program criteria:

capital_construction_fund

2010-01-20T23:45:21+02:00

Revenue in the Capital Construction Fund comes from appropriations made by the General Assembly. The monies in the fund are used to fund capital construction projects. These projects are defined as the following: * Purchase of land, regardless of the value thereof;

Capitol Complex Leased Space

2009-05-30T21:46:05+02:00

This line item is for departments occupying space in the Capitol Complex, the North Campus facility, the Pierce Street Building, the Grand Junction State Office Building, and Camp George West, which is located in Golden. This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office, with some exceptions. The recommended funding level is based on a rate of $12.72 per square foot for the Capitol Complex, $5.84 per square foot for the North Campus, $5.73 per square foot for the Pierce Str…

Carbon Dioxide

2009-12-14T09:02:14+02:00

When people talk about Greenhouse Gases, the usually mean carbon dioxide. It's the big one. Why? For one thing, it absorbs a lot of heat. More specifically, it can absorb a lot of different wavelengths, which means not too much gets past it and back into space.

Carbon Monoxide

2009-10-28T04:23:09+02:00

When you breathe in carbon monoxide it passes through your lungs and into your blood stream. It keeps red blood cells from carrying oxygen to the rest of your body. That causes all kinds of health problems, including: * headaches * inability to exercise * heart disease * central nervous system problems

Care Transitions

2010-01-13T03:41:25+02:00

Improving medical care transitions can help patients get better faster and lower their medical bills. “Care transition” means moving a patient from one place to another while he or she is still getting treatment or medication. Any any care transition opens up an opportunity for something to go wrong. Dr. Eric Coleman of CU's School of Medicine studies transitions. He's discovered that poor communications between providers routinely cause complications including:

care_transitions_intervention

2010-01-13T03:46:29+02:00

The Care Transitions Intervention teaches medical patients how to take an active role in their own health care. That's especially important during Care Transitions, when patients are moving from one setting to another. During a transition, poor communication between medical providers can cause medical mistakes that hurt patients.

Care Transitions Measure

2010-01-13T03:42:37+02:00

The Care Transition Measure helps evaluate how well hospitals are managing the transition of patients from the hospitals to another setting, such as home or a nursing facility. It measures both the hospital's performance and the patient's satisfaction in three key areas:

Caring for Colorado

2009-12-14T09:02:14+02:00

Caring for Colorado is a health grantmaking foundation promoting improved health and health care for the people of Colorado. The Foundation was created in 1999 from the proceeds of the sale of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado. It is a non-profit, 501(c)(4) organization.

Carinivals & Amusement Parks

2010-01-13T03:48:24+02:00

It's all fund and games until the ferris wheel falls over and crushes everyone riding bumper cars. That's why the state sets standards for Carnivals and Amusement Parks. There's a difference, by the way: both have mechanical Amusement Rides, but an amusement park stays put while carnivals come and go.

Case–Shiller index

2010-04-26T10:29:28+02:00

Case–Shiller index The Case-Shiller index tracks the change in housing prices in 20 metro areas across the country, including Denver. Legislative Council economists use it as part of their economic forecasts. More Information Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller website

Cash Funds

2011-11-16T20:37:24+02:00

The best way to describe cash funds is that they're not general. Money comes into them from reverse phone lookup a specific fee and money goes out of them to provide specific services, usually to the people who pay the fee. Fishing licenses, for example. You pay a fee to get the license and the state uses the money to regulate fishing, stock streams and preserve fish habitat. User fees is a more common term.

Categorical programs

2009-11-07T04:57:01+02:00

Categorical programs serve specific groups of K-12 students, like students with disabilities and those who need transportation to school. The state funds them (sort-of) outside of the per-pupil Total Program funding. So what are these categorical programs? Here's a list:

Health and Administrative Divisions

2009-12-17T22:50:14+02:00

Question - Lump sum program funding to counties CDPHE has a number of separate programs that provide funds to local governments. Rather than having CDPHE decide how to allocate the money for each program separately, would it be more efficient to give a single lump sum to local governments for implementation of these programs and let the local government decide upon the allocation? Could a statutory formula be devised that distributes the combined amounts in the Long Bill? Would there be any sa…

Centennial Correctional Facility

2009-11-02T07:29:50+02:00

The Centennial Correctional Facility (CCF) is a high-security prison for male offenders. It's a Level IV, close custody, facility. It holds 336 inmates and has a staff of 185. Centennial is 166,000 square feet and sits on 22 acres of DOC's East Canon Complex.

Center for Health and Environmental Information

2010-02-26T01:51:26+02:00

Health Statistics and Vital Records The Health Statistics and Vital Records Section maintains birth, death, marriage, divorce, and other vital records and issues related certificates. It also administers the Medical Marijuana Registry, which issues registry cards to those who have complied with the state's medical marijuana laws, and the Voluntary Adoption Registry, which facilitates voluntary contact between Colorado-born adoptees 18 years of age and older and their birth parents.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

2009-12-29T05:04:40+02:00

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (officially abbreviated CMS, apparently because neither program recognizes the existence of the other), runs the federal government's three main health care programs: * Medicare * Medicaid * State Children's Health Insurance Program (called the Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) in Colorado)

Central Business District

2009-12-14T09:02:15+02:00

A Central Business District (CBD) is a downtown retail and office district, which is the focus of commercial, civic, and social life and accessible by major transportation routes.

Central Services Unit

2009-12-14T10:08:24+02:00

The Central Services Unit (CSU) handles public health and environmental samples – some of them dangerous – from the time they're picked up in the field until their disposed of. In 2007 it started a statewide courier system for transporting samples. It helps people and companies who use the CDPE labs and it's an important part of public health preparedness.

Central transportation unit

2009-11-02T05:37:03+02:00

The Dept. of Corrections' Central transportation unit (CTU) - The CTU provides inmate movements between facilities, to community corrections, to Denver area courts, to the CMHIP for medical procedures, and out-of-state inmate returns. Dept. of Corrections

Certificates of Participation

2009-05-30T21:40:07+02:00

Certificates of participation (COPs) are a way of financing capital projects without taking on multi-year debt. A government issues the COPs and investors who buy them get a specific rate of return, but the government pays them off in a series of annual appropriations. The result is similar to financing projects with bonds, except that with COPs the government technically doesn't have multi-year debt.

Certified Public Expenditure

2009-12-14T09:02:15+02:00

A Certified Public Expenditure is an uncompensated cost by a public (State or local) entity incurred in association with providing a qualified medical service to an eligible Medicaid or indigent client. The state certifies it as a state payment which makes it eligible for a federal match.

Charter School Institute

2009-11-02T05:37:28+02:00

Charter School Institute is an independent agency in CDE that serves as a statewide charter school authorizer. In FY-10 the Institute will oversee at least 17 charter schools educating over 6,000 students throughout Colorado. While the statute that created the Institute specifically states that “by virtue of its functions and duties, shall not be deemed to be a school district for any purpose,” it nonetheless performs many of the same functions as a school district for Institute charter schools,…

Child Health Plan Plus

2009-12-29T05:34:23+02:00

The Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) is Colorado's version of the federally-authorized Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which offers medical coverage to children from families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to buy private insurance.

Child Support Enforcement

2009-10-16T22:35:07+02:00

Any state that participates in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has to have a Child Support Enforcement (CSE) Program to make sure public money isn't replacing a parent's legal obligation to support his or her children. In order to get money through TANF, a parent has to legally assign support rights to the state and cooperate with state investigators so that the state can track down and collect payments from the other parent.

Children's Extensive Support

2010-01-13T03:49:53+02:00

Children's Extensive Support (CES) helps children who have a developmental disability and children under 5 who are at risk of developing a disability. The services and support help children live outside of an institution. CES also helps families that are caring for a child with a developmental disability.

Children's Health Insurance Program

2009-12-29T05:14:14+02:00

The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) offers affordable medical care to children from families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but too little to afford private insurance. The federal government started CHIP in 1997 as Title XXI of the Social Security Act. At the time, about a quarter of all low-income children in the country lacked health insurance. Today it's far fewer because of SCHIP.

CHS/CJC Building, Inc.

2009-11-11T20:25:46+02:00

Project Timeline FY 2009-10 * Financing for both projects completed (July 2009) * History Center construction began (August 2009) * History Center design completed (January 2010) * Justice Complex schematic design completed (early 2010) * Relocate Museum staff and store exhibits (February to April 2010) * Relocate Supreme Court and Court of Appeals (April 2010) * Demolish current museum and judicial facilities (May to September 2010)

Civic Education

2009-11-02T05:37:52+02:00

Pursuant to Section 22-1-104 (6), C.R.S. (S.B. 05-200), the Dept. of Education is required to assist school districts in developing and promoting civic education programs: "(a) In an effort to strengthen the teaching of civic education in all public schools of the state in accordance with the requirements of this section, the department of education shall assist the school districts of the state in developing and promoting programs for elementary and secondary students that…

Class Action Lawsuit

2009-10-28T00:28:05+02:00

In a class action lawsuit, a group of people who've been hurt by the same entity or entities in the same way (the plaintiffs) file a lawsuit together, rather than each filing their own individual suits. The plaintiffs, all together, become the class that's bringing the action. The suit names one (or sometimes more than one) of the plaintiffs as the lead plaintiff. It's mostly the lead plaintiff's situation that's described in court and the lead plaintiff who testifies. The result of the laws…

Clean Air Act

2009-12-14T10:27:46+02:00

The Clean Air Act is the big federal law that protects us from air pollution. Under the law, EPA determines what pollutants hurt people and the environment, then sets standards for how much of each pollutant can be in the air. The dangerous pollutants are called criteria pollutants and the federal limits for them are called the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act

2009-12-14T09:02:17+02:00

The Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act guarantees people the right to breathe smoke-free air in most indoor areas of the state. The Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act protects people from tobacco pollution in most indoor areas in Colorado. The bill passed in 2006.

Clinica Campesina

2010-01-13T03:51:33+02:00

Clinica Campesina is a Federally Qualified Health Center that offers primary care to people who don't have insurance and can't afford private clinics. The center has three medical clinics and a dental clinic serving Boulder, Broomfield and Adams Counties.

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act

2009-12-29T04:46:12+02:00

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) requires laboratories to meet national quality standards if they analyze samples taken from humans. New Regulations The CLIA led to new rules for documenting quality control at the labs and national standards for the education and training of people who run the labs. Part of the new regulation requires labs to send samples and analyses to other labs to verify their accuracy.

Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative

2009-11-02T05:38:14+02:00

A program in the Dept. of Education that provides $1.8 million for a pilot program that will allow six school_districts the opportunity to get specialized training in educating diverse populations and improving student achievement. Districts with the largest achievement_gaps will be invited to apply for these grants and will be required to meet certain program objectives in order to continue to receive funding.

Colorado Affordable Housing Construction Grants and Loans

2010-02-19T23:50:15+02:00

Colorado Affordable Housing Construction Grants and Loans help make housing available to low income families. The Division of Housing defines low-income households as those at 30% of area median income (AMI) or less. As of 2009, the statewide AMI was $55,276, so the loans and grants help families with yearly income of $16,580 or less.

Colorado Basic Literacy Act

2009-10-20T00:06:23+02:00

The Colorado Basic Literacy Act prohibits students from moving from third to fourth grade if they haven't met state standards for reading comprehension and literacy. It also sets up rules for making sure students meet the standard. It doesn't, however, offer any consistent money to pay for instruction.

More Information

2009-11-16T09:07:40+02:00

The Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC) represents the organizations that offer public behavioral and mental health services to Coloradans. They have contracts with the state to provide behavioral and psychiatric services to specific regions.

Colorado Bureau of Investigation

2009-12-14T09:02:18+02:00

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) supports all of Colorado's law enforcement agencies with crime lab services, investigations, communications, and identification. It also collects and keeps crime data, lists of missing children and a registry of sex offenders.

Colorado Commission on Higher Education

2010-02-23T23:58:28+02:00

CCHE and the Department Administration are responsible for consulting with the higher education institutions and coordinating statewide policies. Some key statutory responsibilities include: ! Develop a master plan to achieve statewide expectations and goals [23-1-108, 23-13-104,

Colorado Connections for Healthy Schools

2010-01-21T02:20:42+02:00

Colorado Connections for Healthy Schools coordinates and supports school health programs to help keep student's healthy enough to learn. Two state departments, Public Health and Education, jointly run the program. Most of the money comes from the federal government through the Centers for Disease Control.

Colorado Constitution

2010-01-13T03:55:57+02:00

Ratified by the people of Colorado in 1876. It was the third try. * 1864 constitution rejected by the voters * 1865 constitution approved by voters, but vetoed by U.S. President Johnson * 1876 Constitution drafted by a convention, ratified by the voters and approved by President Grant

Colorado Crime Information Center

2009-12-14T09:02:18+02:00

The Colorado Crime Information Center (CCIC) provides information around the clock to law enforcement agencies on wants, warrants, case status, stolen property, vehicle registration, known offenders, and drivers licenses. The CCIC maintains system hardware and software, including a statewide telecommunications network connecting the CCIC with more than 500 locations serving law enforcement activities in Colorado. The budget is driven primarily by information technology maintenance and enhancemen…

Colorado District Attorneys' Council

2009-11-11T21:59:48+02:00

The Colorado District Attorneys' Council (CDAC) is recognized in state law as an entity to coordinate cooperation among district attorneys (DAs) across the state. Each member DAs office office pays a fee to belong. The CDAC distributes state funding for District Attorney Mandated Costs to each office.

GEAR UP

2009-11-02T07:30:18+02:00

Colorado GEAR UP is the state's program to prepare low-income students for college. The program runs in cycles. The second cycle runs from 2005-11. GEAR UP, the program is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. It is managed by the Colorado Dept. of Higher Education on behalf of the Governor's Office.

Colorado Health Foundation

2009-05-20T19:45:00+02:00

From the Colorado Health Foundation website: The Colorado Health Foundation works to make Colorado the healthiest state in the nation by increasing the number of Coloradans with health insurance, ensuring they have access to quality, coordinated care and encouraging healthy living. The Foundation invests in the community through grants and initiatives to health-related nonprofits that focus on these goals, as well as operating medical education programs to increase the health care workforce. The…

Colorado HIV-AIDS Prevention Grant Program

2009-12-14T09:02:19+02:00

The Colorado HIV and AIDS Prevention Grant Program pays for medically accurate HIV and AIDS prevention and education programs run by non-profit organizations or local health departments. The programs have to be based in behavioral and social science theory and research.

Colorado HIV and AIDS Prevention Program

2009-05-07T02:16:59+02:00

The Colorado HIV and AIDS Prevention Program (CHAPP) pays for “medically accurate” HIV and AIDS prevention programs in communities across the state. It pays through competitive grants awarded to non-profit groups. The money is for medically accurate HIV and AIDS prevention and education programs that are based in behavioral and social science theory and research.

Colorado Hospitals

2009-12-09T04:45:33+02:00

Payment for Illness and Injuries Caused by Hospitals In October of 2009 the state stopped paying hospitals for treating some illnesses and injuries the hospitals themselves cause. The policy applies only to illnesses and injuries that qualify as Serious Reportable Events (SREs). The state continues to pay for hospital-caused illnesses and injuries that don't quality as Serious Reportable Events.

Colorado Indigent Care Program

2009-10-08T23:44:31+02:00

The Colorado Indigent Care Program grants money to clinics and hospitals to offset the cost of treating low-income and uninsuyred people who are not eligible for Medicaid. In FY 2006-07 there were about 172,500 people who's treatment was covered by the CICP. CICP grants, however, are not based on the number of qualified people who get care; the legislature and Congress appropriate an amount of money which is then divided among the clinics and hospitals that treat the people.

Colorado Integrated Criminal Justice Information System

2010-03-08T23:11:27+02:00

The Colorado Integrated Criminal Justice Information System (CICJIS) is a collaborative effort to transfer data among law enforcement agencies electronically and to match arrest information with case dispositions. The system lets all of the agencies with law enforcement duties share information about the status of criminal cases, including:

Colorado Long-term Care Ombudsman Act

2009-12-14T09:02:19+02:00

The Colorado Long-term Care Ombudsman Act set up the program that helps people who live in long-term care facilities protect their civil. human and legal rights. It's not just a good idea, it's the law; federal law, specifically the Older Americans Act of 1965.

Colorado Lottery

2010-04-23T08:57:07+02:00

The Colorado Lottery sells games in thousands of stores across the state and, after deducting administrative costs and payouts, distributes the proceeds to parks, local governments and school districts. Lottery History Colorado voters authorized a state lottery in 1980. They directed the money to buying parks and open space, but left the details up to the legislature.

The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo

2009-12-14T09:02:20+02:00

The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) is one of two state inpatient psychiatric hospitals. It's mission is to treat patients until they're well enough to go back to their homes or communities. Forensic Division CMHIP’s forensic division is for mentally ill people charged or convicted of a crime. They're either:

Colorado Natural Areas Program

2009-09-07T23:08:16+02:00

The Colorado Natural Areas Program identifies, monitors and protects original, unique and ecologically-important land in the state. It designates Natural Areas, then works cooperatively with the owners and others to preserve and restore the land to its original, natural condition. As of 2009, there are more than 80 Natural Areas spread out across Colorado.

Colorado Regional Integrated Care Collaborative

2009-12-21T23:32:00+02:00

The Colorado Regional Integrated Care Collaborative (CRICC) is a pilot program to improve care and cut costs for highest-need, most expensive patients enrolled in Medicaid. CRICC is part of a national effort sponsored by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS). In Colorado it includes the Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing, health insurers and health care consumer groups. fragmented physical health, mental health, and substance abuse services. is one of several states participating…

Colorado's Renewable Portfolio Standard

2010-04-08T01:05:36+02:00

Colorado Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires Ingestor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) to generate 20% of their electricity using renewable sources by 2020. It requires Rural Electric Associations (REAs) and Municipal Owned Utilities (MOUs) to use renewable sources to generate 10% of their electricity by 2020.

Colorado's Death Row

2010-01-13T04:14:18+02:00

Two people are sitting in Colorado's Death Row: Nathan Dunlap and Ed Montor. Their cells are in the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. If they run out of appeals, the state will kill them by lethal injection. Dunlap is the notorious killer behind the Chuck E. Cheese murders in Aurora in 1993. He'd been fired as a cook at the restaurant and went back for robbery and revenge. He shot 5 five people who were working at the restaurant. Marge Kohlberg, Ben Grant, Sylvia Crowell, and Colleen …

Colorado's Execution Chamber

2010-01-13T04:20:09+02:00

It's a pretty plain looking room. It's about the size of a doctor's exam room with four, white cinder block walls. As you walk in, you're looking at a white, cinder block wall ahead of you. To your right is a window where the warden watches. To you left is a large curtain covering a window through which the witnesses watch.

Colorado's Public Mental Health System

2009-12-10T00:04:38+02:00

Colorado's Public Mental Health System offers an area of both voluntary and involuntary services to people in Colorado who don't have insurance that covers mental health or are insured through Medicaid. Behavioral Health Organizations Behavioral Health Organizations (BHOs) run managed care programs that pay for Medicaid mental health services in specific geographic service areas. There are five BHOs that together serve all 64 counties in Colorado.

Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind

2010-03-10T01:29:09+02:00

Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) is a state-funded type 1 agency within the Colorado Department of Education. The school was established for the purpose of providing comprehensive educational services for children who are blind/low vision and/or deaf/hard of hearing birth to age twenty-one. Services are provided directly to students enrolled on the CSDB campus and through outreach activities, which are provided to staff, families and children throughout Colorado.

Colorado State Fair Authority Cash Fund

2010-02-16T07:26:53+02:00

[Mutton busting at the Colorado State Fair.]Money in the Colorado State Fair Authority Cash Fund subsidizes the Colorado state fair and industrial exposition. Funding the Fund The fund gets money from: * the leasing of facilities at state fairgrounds * 25% of the interest from the Unclaimed Property Tourism Promotion Trust Fund * any money the legislature appropriates to the fund

Colorado State Infrastructure Bank

2009-12-14T09:02:20+02:00

The Colorado State Infrastructure Bank (CO SIB) is part of a federal pilot program that lends money to communities to help them pay for transportation projects. CO SIP makes short-term loans and uses the repaid principal and interest to lend additional money to other communities.

Colorado State Penitentiary

2009-11-02T05:39:37+02:00

The Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) is a maximum-security prison designed to hold the most violent and dangerous, adult, male, criminals. In DOC jargon, it's a Level V, high custody facility. CSP is in the East Cañon Complex. It holds 756 inmates.

Colorado State Penitentiary II

2009-11-02T05:48:33+02:00

The Colorado State Penitentiary II (CSP II) is scheduled to open in April of 2010 at the East Cañon City Corrections Complex. It's a high-security (Leval V, high-custody) prison with 948 beds. The Dept. of Corrections built it to relieve pressure on the Colorado State Penitentiary, which is currently the state's only maximum security prison.

Colorado Territory

2010-01-13T04:12:59+02:00

Congress created the Colorado Territory in 1861. It covered the same territory the state covers today. The first territorial governor was William Gilpin, who was appointed by President Lincoln. It took a while for the U.S. to get control of the land that became the Colorado Territory. It bought the eastern plains in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The rest belonged to Mexico until Mexican-American War.

Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund

2009-12-14T09:02:21+02:00

Within three years of receiving unclaimed securities (from banks, etc.) the State Treasurer has to sell them. The money from the sale goes into the Unclaimed Property Tourism Promotion Trust Fund. The Treasurer can spend principal from the fun to pay claims. All of the interest goes to the Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund and can be appropriated by the legislature.

Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)

2009-12-14T09:02:21+02:00

The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) is charged with protecting and developing water in Colorado. It was ceated in 1937. It's duties include: * protecting the state's water supplies * planning and paying for water projects * anticipating and minimizing the damage from floods * planning for droughts * weather modification * protecting streams and lakes * restoring rivers * conserving water * making information about water available to people in Colorado

Colorado Water Conservation Board Construction Fund

2010-01-14T02:35:22+02:00

Funding the Fund The Construction Fund gets money from a few different sources: * Federal Mineral Lease distributions * Interest on existing loans * Interest on the fund balance * Payments from lease agreements 37-60-121. Colorado water conservation board construction fund - creation of - nature of fund - funds for investigations - contributions - use for augmenting the general fund - funds created.

Common Policies

2009-11-02T06:22:44+02:00

The recommendations for many line items are determined by general policies applied consistently to State agencies. Here's a list of the policies that links to descriptions of the policies. Administrative Law Judge Services ADP Capital Outlay and Information Technology Asset Maintenance

Communication Services Payments

2009-07-21T09:49:22+02:00

This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office, with some exceptions, and represents each department's share of the overhead related to the State's public safety communications infrastructure. For FY 2009-10, the recommendation is for a continuation level of funding from FY 2008-09. Billings are sufficient to fund personal services, operating expenses, and indirect costs for the Communications Services program in the Governor's Office of Information Technology. This amou…

Community Centered Boards

2009-12-10T20:12:50+02:00

Community Centered Boards, CCBs for short, act like managed care agencies for people with Developmental Disabilities. They're private, non-profit organizations that serve specific areas. There are 20 CCBs in Colorado. Imagine! is the CCB that services Boulder and Broomfield Counties.

Community Corrections

2010-02-14T02:16:24+02:00

People who have been convicted of crimes can be treated and supervised in Community Corrections (CC), rather than in prison. CC can keep first time criminal from becoming hardened in prison, it helps people transition from prison back to society and it saves the state a lot of money.

Community Health Centers

2010-03-30T16:38:24+02:00

Community Health Centers (CHCs) offer medical primary care to low-income working families. They're non-profit and get most of their money from Medicaid and the federal government. Colorado has 15 Community Health Centers; they run nearly 140 clinics around the state. In 2008 they served more than 400,000 patients.

Community Provider Rates

2009-07-21T09:50:10+02:00

The recommendation includes no community provider rate increases or decreases for programs in the Department of Human Service. In the Department of Corrections, the recommendation includes a 2.125 percent increase for private prison providers. Provider rate adjustments for programs administered in the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing are detailed in the Long Bill Narrative section for that department. Historically, community provider rate adjustments have been applied to programs a…

Community Rating

2010-01-13T04:15:33+02:00

Community Rating is a system for setting insurance premiums. Insurance companies have to charge everyone in a community the same amount regardless of their health and lifestyle. Modified Community Rating This is the same concept, but it gives insurance companies a little bit of flexibility. They set a rate for a community, but they can vary it a bit based on a few factors, such as a person's age, sex, whether they smoke and things like that.

Comprehensive Health Education

2009-11-07T04:54:05+02:00

The Colorado Comprehensive Health Education Act of 1990 encourages a planned, sequential health education program offered at every grade level pre K-12th grade. The intent of the funding is to foster healthy behaviors through increased health knowledge and the modification of risk behaviors. Prevention Initiatives is responsible for administration of the Colorado Comprehensive Health Education Act of 1990. The funds are distributed to local school districts annually through a competitive grant p…

More Information

2010-03-23T16:56:50+02:00

Comprehensive Health Education Grant Program Examples Douglas County Ignacio Implement an Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs program into the comprehensive health program in grades 1st -12th by using the Health Promotion Wave Curriculum and other supplemental curriculum. Physical Education and Health teachers will provide in-services to their k-12 personnel regarding school wellness policies and school activities.

Comprehensive Primary and Preventive Care Grant Program

2009-12-10T19:50:04+02:00

Colorado Statutes TITLE 26 HUMAN SERVICES CODE ARTICLE 4 COLORADO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ACT PART 10 COMPREHENSIVE PRIMARY AND PREVENTIVE CARE GRANT PROGRAM PART 10 COMPREHENSIVE PRIMARY AND PREVENTIVE CARE GRANT PROGRAM 26-4-1001. Short title. This part 10 shall be known and may be cited as the “Comprehensive Primary and Preventive Care Grant Program Act”.

Comprehensive Primary Care Program

2009-11-02T05:46:43+02:00

In November 2004, the voters passed Amendment 35 to the Colorado Constitution which increased the taxes on tobacco products in order to expand several health care programs. During the 2005 Legislative Session, the General Assembly passed H.B. 05-1262 to implement the provisions of Amendment 35.

Computer Aided Dispatch

2009-12-14T09:02:23+02:00

The Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system allows the Colorado State Patrol to make use of information technology hardware and software architectures to automate business processes associated with incident response and communication to officers and emergency personnel in the field.

Concurrent enrollment

2010-03-09T10:56:21+02:00

In education, “concurrent enrollment” means a student is enrolled in high school and college at the same time. Colorado has two kinds of concurrent enrollment programs. One was developed by some school districts using loopholes in K-12 laws; the other is called Accelerating Students through Concurrent Enrollment (ASCENT) and was started by the legislature in 2009.

Conditional Water Rights

2009-12-14T09:02:23+02:00

Conditional water rights recognize that it can take a lot of time to actually put water to Beneficial Use. Think about a farmer who wants to irrigate a field that's fairly far from river. He has to survey the land to make sure his ditch is always heading downhill, then he has to build a headgate, dig the ditch and create a network of channels to get the water to all of his crops.

Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program

2010-01-19T18:50:10+02:00

The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program (CMAQ) is a pot of money contained in Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act for projects and activities that reduce congestion and improve air quality in regions not yet attaining federal air quality standards.

congressional_districts

2009-12-14T09:02:23+02:00

Colorado has seven Congressional districts. Click here for an interactive map of Colorado's Congressional districts.

Conservation Trust Fund

2010-04-23T08:59:42+02:00

Money from the Conservation Trust Fund goes to local governments to pay for various conservation-related activities. It's funded with proceeds from the Colorado Lottery About 450 cities, counties and special districts are eligible for money from the fund. The amount they get is based on their population. They can use the money for:

Content Specialists

2009-11-02T05:28:22+02:00

The Dept. of Education has content specialists that serve as consultants for the school districts in five subject areas: * math * science * social studies * the arts * achievement gaps The goal of these specialists is to identify areas in which districts may improve in a given subject area and provide guidance so that the district may improve in achievement in the subject area.

Controlled Maintenance Trust Fund

2009-09-07T21:50:49+02:00

The Controlled Maintenance Trust Fund (CMTF) was set up to hold enough money to generate enough interest to pay for the maintenance that's necessary to keep state buildings from deteriorating. The Reason for the Fund Good buildings can last forever, but only if they get regular maintenance. Without that maintenance routine repairs deteriorate into major restorations. Small expenses grow into major expenditures.

Schedule I

2009-04-07T07:06:49+02:00

Colorado classifies drugs in the Uniform Controlled Substances Act of 1992, now C.R.S. 18-18-405. It's pretty close to the classifications the federal government uses. The penalties go up as the drugs get more dangerous, more addictive, more likely to be abused.

Cooperative direct mail advertising

2010-01-23T02:53:46+02:00

Cooperative Direct Mail Advertising means coupons or leaflets for one or more businesses that are delivered by mail in a single envelope or bundle. It includes things like: * ValuePak and Money Mailer envelopes filled with coupons * GoldClipper sheets of coupons

Dept. of Corrections

2009-11-02T06:22:55+02:00

The Dept. of Corrections (DOC) operates state prisons, supervises private prisons and runs the community corrections system. * Manage, supervise, and control the correctional facilities operated and supported by the State. * Oversee privately operated prison facilities to monitor contract compliance with the Department. * Provide programs to the inmate population in an effort to provide them with treatment and services designed to improve the likelihood of successfully reintegrating into …

Corridor Vision

2009-12-14T09:02:24+02:00

A transportation corridor vision links a community's transportation needs to its values. It's based on the concept of a transportation corridor, which includes all of the transportation modes (e.g. highways, transit) and transportation facilities within a specific geographic area.

County Administration

2010-01-14T22:16:02+02:00

County Administration is the money the state pays counties for running the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)-related programs. TANF replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) as America's welfare program for helping poor people get back on their feet.

county_tax_base_relief

2010-02-19T00:22:37+02:00

County Tax Base Relief helps counties with the highest social services costs and lowest property tax values. The low property values limit the amount of property tax revenue the counties get to pay for social services. If they also have a lot of low-income residents, they struggle to cover the costs.

Courthouse Security Grant Program

2010-01-19T21:09:47+02:00

The Courthouse Security Grant Program helps counties pay for increasing security in courthouses. The can use the money to hire security guards, buy equipment and train employees. Funding the Grants The grant money comes from The program is supported by the Court Security Cash Fund, which consists of a $5 surcharge on: docket fees and jury fees for certain civil actions; docket fees for criminal convictions, special proceeding filings, and certain traffic infraction penalties; filing fees for…

Custodial Funds for Early Intervention Services

2010-03-15T23:32:31+02:00

They funds are money that insurance companies pay to cover services for children under three years old who Pursuant to S.B. 07-004 (Shaffer/Todd) and H.B. 09-1237 (Primavera/Shaffer), private insurance policies offered in the state that include coverage for dependents must pay for early intervention services for children under three who have significant delays in development or a diagnosed physical or mental condition with a high probability of resulting in significant delays in d…

custody_level

2009-12-14T09:02:25+02:00

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Custody Levels

2009-11-02T05:42:31+02:00

The Dept. of Corrections (DOC) uses custody levels to describe the amount of supervision an inmate needs. The higher the custody level, the more closely the inmate is supervised. The DOC custody levels are: * Minimum * Minimum-Restricted * Medium

Customer Relations, Public Information and Training Unit

2009-12-14T10:14:45+02:00

This unit gets the world out when the lab's discover something important, like the spinach contaminated with E. coli O157 in 2006 and the peanut butter that carried Salmonella in 2007. The unit also trains people in laboratories around the state. One key part of the training lately is recognizing the kinds of bacteria that could be used in bioterrorism.

CWCB Construction Fund

2009-12-14T09:02:25+02:00

The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)'s Construction Fund subsidizes water-related projects, studies and operations. Distributions from the Fund Money from the fund goes to local agencies two ways, as low-interest loans or as grants that don't have to be repaid.

David Moffat

2009-12-14T09:57:12+02:00

Arriving in Denver in 1860 to create a book and stationary store, Moffat died in 1911 with claims to over one hundred Colorado mines and nine railroads. Even though one of these railroads, the Denver Northwestern and Pacific line, only reached to Steamboat Springs at the time of Moffat's death, the development of the 6.3 mile long Moffat Tunnel through the Continental Divide soon after allowed important intercontinental railroad traffic to go over the daunting Rocky Mountains. Moffat's work with…

Day Treatment

2009-12-14T09:02:30+02:00

Day treatment helps people with disabilities learn to live in the communities. It's available through Colorado's HCBS waiver for persons with brain injury. Day treatment is intensive therapy. People who are eligible are treated at least two hours a day, at least one day a week.

Debt Repayment on the Events Center

2010-02-16T07:17:40+02:00

The current debt principle owed on the Events Center is approximately $971,000. The State Fair receives 100 percent of the interest earned on the sale of securities credited to the Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund, to fully pay off all debt on the Events Center, pursuant to HB06- 1384. The State Fair anticipates paying off all debt in December 2008. However, it is important to note that during the 2008 legislative session, the General Assembly passed legislation that will reallocate in…

Demand response

2009-12-14T09:02:31+02:00

Demand response lets utilities adjust customers' use of a resource to even out the total amount needed over a period of time. For instance, if the demand for electricity peaks in the early evening, the utility can push nonessential use to other times. It saves money and protects the environment because utilities often have to have special sources of a resource available just to meet peak demand, such as gas-fired electric power generation stations or coal-fired generators operating as spinning…

Dental Loan Repayment Program

2009-12-11T02:10:05+02:00

CDPHE The Dental Loan Repayment Program helps dentists and dental hygienists pay off their education loans if they agree to treat low-income patients. The program pays all or part of both the principal and interest and can even pay other expenses related to the loan.

Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center

2009-05-12T01:23:50+02:00

The Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center (DRDC) is the first stop for offenders heading into the colorado prison system. At DRDS, new offenders get tested and evaluated to determine where they'll start their sentences and what education, medical treatment and therapy they'll get while they're in prison.

Infirmary

2009-12-14T09:02:31+02:00

- This correctional facility provides the intake services for inmates sentenced to the Department of Corrections. DRDC is the first stop for all offenders sentenced to the Department of Corrections. Staff at the 480 bed maximum security facility process, test, and classify offenders entering the system, prior to their placement at one of the Department's permanent facilities.Offenders are given a complete diagnostic evaluation including medical, dental, mental health assessment, and personal…

Colorado State Departments

2009-12-14T09:02:31+02:00

Dept. of Agriculture * Dept. of Agriculture 2009-10 Budget Dept. of Corrections Dept. of Education Governor's Office Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing Dept. of Higher Education Dept. of Human Services Judicial Branch Administration Division

Dept. of Agriculture

2010-02-16T05:21:06+02:00

What the Department Does * Inspect and certify meat, eggs, fruits & vegetables, animal feed and fertilizer * Watch for diseases that could hurt livestock * Regulate commercial pesticide applicators * Control weeds * Promote Colorado ag products * Protect soil from erosion and contamination * Run the Colorado State Fair (through the State Fair Authority)

Dept. of Agriculture 2009-10 Funding Changes

2009-04-04T07:13:29+02:00

The majority of the Department's total funding for FY 2008-09 (67.9 percent, or $26.7 million) will be generated through fees collected from inspection and certification services performed by the Agricultural Services Division and the Brand Board, as well as revenue earned from the activities of the State Fair. While the percentage of the Department's total funding from fees has remained flat (decrease of 1.9 percent) over the last three years, the amount of General Fund received by the Departme…

Elimination of Indirect Cost Recovery Caps and a Program Subsidy

2009-12-14T09:02:32+02:00

Several cash-funded programs have statutory limitations on the amount of indirect costs that can be recovered, thus funding is backfilled with General Fund. In addition, one of these programs also receives a $200,000 General Fund subsidy. Summary Four cash-funded programs in the Department of Agriculture have statutory indirect cost recovery caps, of which one also receives a program subsidy. As a result, these fee-for-service programs require approximately $785,000 General Fund in FY 2008-09…

Indirect Costs Recovery Caps

2009-12-14T09:02:32+02:00

Indirect Costs Indirect costs are the overhead costs associated with the operation of general government functions and departmental administrative duties. Indirect cost recoveries are intended to offset these overhead costs, that otherwise would have been supported by the General Fund, from cash- and federally-funded programs. Recoveries from cash and federally-funded programs are calculated for statewide and departmental overhead costs. The Department of Agriculture allocates recovery of its …

Department Indirect Cost Recovery Methodology

2009-07-21T09:51:33+02:00

The indirect cost recovery methodology employed by the Department of Agriculture in recent years has subsidized the indirect costs incurred by the State Fair with General Fund and other fund sources. With moneys made available from the passage of H.B. 08-1399, the State Fair is better positioned to fund its associated indirect costs.

Dept. of Corrections

2009-11-02T05:42:32+02:00

The Dept. of Corrections (DOC) operates state prisons, supervises private prisons and runs the community corrections system. Click here for information on the Dept. of Corrections budget. * Manage, supervise, and control the correctional facilities operated and supported by the State. * Oversee privately operated prison facilities to monitor contract compliance with the Department. * Provide programs to the inmate population in an effort to provide them with treatment and services design…

Dept. of Education

2009-12-03T23:27:34+02:00

The Commissioner of Education and department staff, under the direction of the elected members of the State Board of Education, have the following responsibilities: * Supporting the State Board in its duty to exercise general supervision over public schools, inluding accrediting public schools and school districts.

Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing

2009-12-10T19:48:03+02:00

The Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF, pronounced hick-puff), manages the bulk of the state's publicly-funded medical programs. That includes: * Runs the state's Medicaid program * Acts as the single-state agency to receive Medicaid (Title XIX) funds from the federal government, which includes passing some of those funds onto the Dept. of Human Services and other departments that operate some Medicaid programs * Runs Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+), Colorado version of the f…

Dept. of Higher Education

2009-12-14T09:02:34+02:00

The Department of Higher Education (Department; DHE) includes eight divisions, the first three comprising the functions traditionally described as the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE; the Commission): Finance; Academic Affairs; Information & Research; Private Occupational Schools; GEAR UP (federally funded primarily through the Governor’s Office); CollegeInvest; College Assist; and College in Colorado (formally a subdivision of College Assist). It is the administrative home of and …

Dept. of Human Services

2009-12-30T12:48:49+02:00

The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) runs most of the state's non-medical public benefits. It oversees: * all county departments of social/human services * the public mental health system * services for people with developmental disabilities * juvenile corrections * state and Veterans’ Nursing Homes

Administration Division

2010-03-29T08:05:05+02:00

The Attorney General's Office represents and defends the legal interests of the people of the State of Colorado. It serves as chief legal counsel for state agencies and departments and represents Colorado in state and federal courts. The office works concurrently with Colorado's 22 district attorneys and with other local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to carry out its criminal justice responsibilities and represents the State in criminal appeals. It has primary authority for enfo…

Dept. of Local Affairs

2010-01-19T20:18:18+02:00

The EDO manages the department, including: * human resources * accounting * budgeting It gets a lot of its money from Reappropriated Funds, which come from: * Local Government Severance Tax Fund * Local Government Mineral Impact Fund

Dept. of Natural Resources

2009-04-04T22:19:40+02:00

The Dept. of Natural Resources manages and protects Colorado's land, water, wildlife and minerals. * The Division of Wildlife protects the state's 960 game and non-game wildlife species, manages 250 state wildlife areas and issues hunting and fishing licenses. * The Division of Water Resources, commonly called the State Engineer's Office, administers and enforces water rights throughout the state. * The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) promotes conservation of the state’s water re…

Dept. of Public Health and Environment

2009-12-14T09:02:35+02:00

(1) ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT (A) Administration This office oversees, coordinates, and supports the Department's eleven divisions. Its functions include * communications * building operations * telecommunications * internal audit * management analysis * accounting * budgeting * contracts * payroll, * purchasing * human resources * oversight of tobacco settlement-funded programs

Organization of DOR

2010-04-20T19:51:36+02:00

Dept. of Revenue Organization of DOR [[

Dept. of the Treasury Overview

2009-09-23T23:30:14+02:00

Key Responsibilities Primary Functions * Ensures the safekeeping and management of public funds by depositing and investing all funds received by state agencies * Ensures sufficient funds are maintained in cash accounts to pay outstanding warrants.

Dept. of Transportation

2009-05-03T01:00:35+02:00

The Colorado Dept. of Transportation builds, operates and maintains the state's transportation system. It's official mission is “To provide the best multi-modal transportation system for Colorado that most effectively moves people, goods, and information.”

Designated Facilities

2010-01-21T23:21:52+02:00

We use Designated Facilities to care for people who are getting involuntary mental health services. They're designated (and monitored) by the Division of Mental Health (DMH). DMH has designated 50 facilities across the state. Some are public and some are privately-owned. All Community Mental Health Centers and the Mental Health Institutes are designated facilities.

Detention

2009-12-14T09:02:36+02:00

Detention facilities hold youth while awaiting a hearing. Judges can also sentence adjudicated youth to a period of up to 45 days in a detention facility (Section 19-2-911, C.R.S.). The average length of stay in detention has ranged from 10.4 days to 15.7 days from FY 1992-93 through FY 2007-08. In FY 2007-08, the most recent year for which data is available, the average length of stay was 13.7 days.

Developmental Disabilities

2009-12-10T18:55:13+02:00

In Colorado, Developmental Disability has a legal definition: a substantial disability from mental retardation (or something similar) that impairs intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior and that develops before adulthood (21 years old or younger).

Disability Determination Services

2010-02-19T00:46:15+02:00

Disability Determination Services conducts medical disability determinations for the Social Security Administration for Colorado residents applying for Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Programs. Funding for the program is 100.0 percent federal funds (Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act). Actual determination is done by medical professionals with whom the Department contracts.

Disease Control and Environmental Epidemiology Division

2010-02-26T02:26:08+02:00

The Disease Control and Environmental Epidemiology Division tracks, controls and preventsa the spread of communicable diseases in Colorado. The Division maintains a disease-monitoring network, working with Colorado's health care providers to ensure prompt reporting of diseases, to identify the causes and modes of transmission and to stop epidemics. Data are also collected for birth defects monitoring and prevention. The division's staff provides technical assistance statewide in the control an…

District Attorney Mandated Costs

2009-12-14T09:02:36+02:00

Mandated costs, a line in the Judicial Branch budget, reimburse district attorneys (DAs) for prosecuting cases that involve state matters. Components of Mandated Costs The mandated cost reimbursement covers: * witness fees and mileage * fees for service of process or publications * expert witness fees * lodging and transportation expenses for witnesses required to travel more than 50 miles, as * well as for parents of witnesses under age 18 * court reporter fees for transcripts …

Division of Behavioral Health

2009-12-09T23:18:11+02:00

The Division of Behavior Health, in the Dept. of Human Services, contracts with organizations that offer mental health and substance abuse services in communities throughout Colorado. To ensure that community provider arrangements are viable over the long term, the General Assembly has regularly awarded annual inflationary increases for community provider programs. Those increases have driven the Division's budget.

Division of Developmental Disabilities

2009-12-10T19:00:09+02:00

It's part of the Dept. of Human Services that handles services for people with Developmental Disabilities. It operates the Regional Centers for People with Disabilities and supervises the Community Centered Boards that coordinate services in communities around the state.

Division of Housing

2010-02-19T23:36:16+02:00

The Division of Housing (DOH) provides financial and technical assistance designed to increase the availability of housing to low income, elderly, and disabled individuals. The Division offers financial help for building and rehabilitating affordable housing. The assistance includes:

Division of Insurance

2010-04-13T18:51:37+02:00

The Division of Insurance (DOI) in the Dept. of Regulatory Agencies regulates insurance companies and bail bonding agents in Colorado. The Division carries out this mission by receiving fraud complaints from various sources, including insurance companies, employers, employees, agents, and interested citizens. It then conducts investigations to determine whether there have been violations of the law. Investigations that result in a raised suspicion of violations are referred to the Attorney Ge…

Division of Local Government

2010-01-19T20:15:49+02:00

The Division of Local Government within the Dept. of Local Affairs helps cities and counties with various issues and collects of demographic data about Colorado. DLG Duties By law the Division has to: * provide technical assistance and information to local governments on available federal and state programs and act as a liaison with other state agencies concerned with local governments * be a source of information to the Governor and General Assembly on local government needs and proble…

Division of Motor Vehicles

2009-12-16T00:35:55+02:00

This division is responsible for issuing driver's licenses and state identification cards; issuing titles and registering motor vehicles; regulating commercial driving schools; enforcing interstate trucking laws through the Ports of Entry system; enforcing the state's auto emissions program; and overseeing the Motorist Insurance Identification Database.

Division of Oil and Public Safety

2010-01-08T02:12:03+02:00

The Division of Oil and Public Safety conducts a variety of regulatory inspections that encompass public safety, consumer protection and environmental protection. The inspections are divided into sections: * Petroleum Inspection Section * Conveyance Section * Boiler Inspection Section * Explosives Section * Amusement Rides and Devices Section * Public Schools Section * Remediation Section and Petroleum Storage Tank Fund (PSTF)

Division of On-line Learning

2009-11-02T06:19:45+02:00

S.B. 07-215, On-line Education Programs Bill, created the Division of On-line Learning within the Dept. of Education. The bill was an outgrowth of an analysis by the state auditor and an independent commission that studied means to improve oversight of on- line education.

Division of Private Occupational Schools

2009-12-14T09:02:37+02:00

The Division of Private Occupational Schools is responsible for reviewing the curriculum and establishing standards for private occupational schools in Colorado. Its duties include setting standards for schools and protecting people from fraudulent or substandard schools.

Division of Property Taxation

2009-12-14T09:02:37+02:00

The Division coordinates and administers the implementation of property tax law throughout the 64 counties. It operates under the leadership of the property tax administrator, who is appointed by the State Board of Equalization. In promoting equalization of property valuation for property tax purposes and providing assistance to county assessors, the DPT's activities are divided into several sections which are listed below:

Division Duties

2009-04-04T22:16:40+02:00

The Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, within the Dept. of Natural Resources, regulates coal and metal mines in Colorado. The Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety is divided into two offices: * Office of Mined Land Reclamation * Office of Active and Inactive Mines

Division of Registrations Cash Fund

2009-11-12T22:01:49+02:00

The Division of Registrations Cash Fund pays the the costs of running the boards and commission that regulate professions in Colorado, like doctors, architects, boxing promoters and CPAs. The Fund Every year, each of the boards and commissions in the Division of Registrations puts in its budget request the amount of the fee it has to collect to cover it's costs. The fees have to bring in just enough to cover both direct and indirect costs for each board and commission.

Division of Water Resources

2009-11-02T08:54:15+02:00

The Division of Water Resources (aka Office of the State engineer) manages Colorado's water resources, including the protection and allocation of nearly 80,000 water rights. It's part of the Dept. of Natural Resources. The division's full list of duties includes:

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11

2009-12-23T00:43:10+02:00

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Overview Issues DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Status of the Operational Account (Status of the Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund) DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Oil and Gas Activity {Oil and Gas Development Activity and OGCC Workload}

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Ground Water Management Program

2009-12-22T23:19:07+02:00

This is part of the DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11. Division of Water Resources Cash Funding of Ground Water Management Program The Ground Water Management Program is estimated to cost the Division of Water Resources $5.0 million (including $4.7 million for approximately 65.0 FTE and $300,000 in operating costs). An estimated 18.0 percent of program costs are covered by cash fees, the remainder of the program is subsidized by the General Fund.

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Oil and Gas Activity

2009-12-23T01:27:43+02:00

This is part of the DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11. Oil and Gas Development Activity and OGCC Workload Provides an update on oil and gas activity in Colorado and the workload and staffing of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Summary * The Commission is experiencing a roughly 60 percent drop in the submission of applications for permits to drill (APDs) from FY 2007-08 actual levels to the estimate for FY 2009-10. The decline in APD workload is partially offset by the receipt of oil and ga…

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Options for Cash Funds Transfers

2009-12-22T23:40:20+02:00

This is part of the DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11. Options for Cash Funds Transfers to the General Fund Options for Cash Fund Transfers from the Colorado Water Conservation Board Construction Fund and the Perpetual Base Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund to the General Fund to Address the Projected FY 2009-10 and FY 2010-11 General Fund Revenue Shortfall.

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Shift in Parks Funding

2009-12-22T23:17:09+02:00

This is part of DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11. Department Proposal to Shift Funding in the Divisions of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and Wildlife from the Capital Construction to the Operating Budget The Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and the Division of Wildlife are proposing to re-organize the capital construction budgets and move part of their re-organized capital construction line items into the operating side of the budget.

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 State Land Board Direct Sales

2009-12-23T00:51:57+02:00

This is part of the DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11. State Land Board Direct Sales Legislative Proposal Discusses the State Land Board's 2010 Session legislative proposal to allow the Land Board to make direct sales to local governments. Summary * The State Land Board (SLB) is proposing a statutory change to allow for direct sales of land to local governments without going to public bid. * The proposal would allow the SLB greater flexibility to manage its portfolio of lands but generates some c…

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 State Parks Funding

2009-12-22T23:29:21+02:00

This is part of DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11. During FY 2009-10 State Parks funding was reduced through a General Fund operating reduction of $1.9 million, personal services base reduction of $439,000 total funds, and a refinance of General Fund central appropriations with cash funds totaling $456,000. As a result, State Parks is proposing various measures to increase revenues through increased fees, reduce expenditures, and provided additional funding to State Parks from the Operational Account of…

DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Status of the Operational Account

2009-12-23T00:21:41+02:00

This is part of the DNR JBC Brief FY 2010-11. Status of the Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund Discusses the status of fund balances and revenue volatility in the Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund. Summary * Based on the December 2009 Legislative Council Staff Revenue Forecast, revenues to the Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund will decrease from $79.8 million in FY 2008-09 to $17.9 million (excluding estimates of interest earned) in FY 2…

DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11

2009-12-22T20:22:57+02:00

DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Overview DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Budget Changes DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Population Projections DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Accelerated Transition Program DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Update on CSP II DRDC DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Reducing Caseload

DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11 Accelerated Transition Program

2009-12-22T22:43:08+02:00

This is part of the DOC JBC Brief FY 2010-11. Update on Accelerated Transition Program In August 2009, Governor Ritter proposed an accelerated transition program for certain offenders transitioning from prison to parole and for certain offenders transitioning from parole to the community. Because fewer offenders have been approved by the Parole Board for transition than originally estimated, the Department of Corrections has requested that its August 2009 cost savings estimates for the progra…

DRCOG Transportation Demand Management Strategies

2009-12-05T05:24:03+02:00

These strategies are from the Denver Regional Council of Governments document Regional Travel Demand Management Strategic Plan Promote the Use of Alternatives to SOV Travel Ridesharing Ridesharing occurs when two or more people share a single vehicle when making a trip. DRCOG operates three programs to help commuters locate other individuals for ridesharing purposes:

Driver and Vehicle Services

2010-02-26T00:19:06+02:00

Driver and Vehicle Services is a section of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Organization of DOR. It manages a few programs: * drivers licensing * drivers license records * motor vehicle registration * the regulation of commercial driving schools * distribution of license plates to county and state offices

Drug Offender Surcharges

2009-12-14T10:47:13+02:00

In Colorado, people convicted of drug crimes have to pay a surcharge. The amount of the surcharge depends on the class of the offense. Drug Offender Surcharges Class of Offense Surcharge Felony 2 $4,500Felony 3 $3,000Felony 4 $1,500Felony 5 $1,125Felony 6 $750 Misdemeanor 1 $600 Misdemeanor 2 $450 Misdemeanor 3 $225 Deferred Judgment $100 C.R.S. 18-19-103 Justice, Cash Funds

Dual Eligibles

2009-12-29T05:36:21+02:00

Dual Eligibles are people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. They have low incomes, are elderly or have disabilities. Dual Eligibles' Characteristics In Colorado there are about 75,000 people who are dually eligible; they are about 15% of the total number of people on Medicaid. That's roughly the same percentage of Medicaid beneficiaries who are dually-eligible nationally. Even though dual eligibles are just 15% of the national Medicaid population, they account for 40% of Medicaid …

Early Action Compact

2009-12-14T10:19:50+02:00

An Early Action Compact lets regions avoid federal sanctions for violating the Clean Air Act if they have a plan for coming into compliance. When the air in an area gets too polluted, the U.S. EPA can take drastic action to protect the people who live there. It may be good for us and the environment, but it can be awful politically and economically. EPA tries to avoid it.

Early Childhood Councils

2010-03-18T00:03:06+02:00

The Early Childhood Councils program includes 31 self-described communities that span 57 counties. 97% of Colorado’s population lives within these communities. This project has successfully brought key child care stakeholders together to identify and implement approaches at the local level that provide valuable policy information and allow the development of a seamless, and accessible system of care for families. Under these councils, the communities are developing comprehensive child care progr…

Early Childhood Councils Cash Fund

2010-03-18T00:12:05+02:00

This cash fund was created in FY 2007-08 through H.B. 07-1062. This bill, for the first time, authorized the use of General Fund to support early childhood councils (previously known as “consolidated child are pilots”; see discussion below). House Bill 07-1062 included an appropriation of $1,022,168 General Fund into this Cash Fund, with a further appropriation to the Department for Early Childhood Councils programs (reflected in the line item below). Since FY 2007-08, no appropriations have bee…

East Canon Complex

2009-12-14T09:57:36+02:00

The Dept. of Corrections 5,000 acre East Canon Complex near Canon City is the site of a half dozen prisons, including the Colorado State Penitentiary and CSP II. Dept. of Corrections, Prison, Justice

Emissions Technical Centers

2009-12-14T09:07:03+02:00

Emissions technical centers are part of the Automobile Inspection and Readjustment Program (AIR). They to two things: * train mechanics in an area to fix emissions-related problems with vehicles * help drivers who are having particular problems figuring out why they're cars are polluting

employment_support_fund

2010-01-20T21:39:56+02:00

The Employment Support Fund is filled by 50% of the unemployment premiums paid by employers. The fund pays administrative costs of the State's unemployment program and further supports programs that strengthen unemployment fund solvency. It is established in C.R.S. 8-77-109

Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Program

2010-02-16T09:06:58+02:00

The Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Program makes low-interest loans and grants to help local governments that are “impacted” by energy and mineral development, such as oil and gas wells. The local entities that can get grants and loans include:

Enforcement Business Group

2009-12-16T00:46:50+02:00

The Enforcement Business Group regulates the liquor, tobacco, racing, gambling (except for games of chance operated for charity) and automobile sales industry. Limited Gaming Division In 1991, the Colorado Constitution was amended to allow limited stakes gaming in three Colorado cities: Black Hawk, Central City, and Cripple Creek. Gaming taxes, fees, and other revenues are paid into the Limited Gaming Fund. The Limited Gaming Control Commission approves the Division's annual budget and overse…

English Language Proficiency Program

2009-12-14T09:07:03+02:00

English Language Proficiency Program Pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act [Title III - English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement Act], the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 [Title VI], and the English Language Proficiency Act [Article 24 of Title 22, C.R.S.], districts are required to identify and provide programs for students whose dominant language is not English.

Entitlement Programs

2009-12-14T09:07:03+02:00

Federal entitlement programs give people financial or other assistance if they meet certain criteria (like income) and regardless of the total cost. Federal law entitles people to the benefit, and they can file lawsuits to get benefits if they believe they were unfairly denied.

Envision Utah

2009-12-14T09:07:04+02:00

Robert Grow, one of the original founders of Utah’s corridor plan called Envision Utah, explained how partners successfully developed a joint growth strategy for the Greater Wasatch area (see separate download for presentation). Envision Utah was developed through a series of public meetings, regional workshops and a public survey that identified six main goals to address: air quality, mobility and transportation choices, preservation of critical lands, water resources, housing opportunities and…

expelled_and_at-risk_student_programs

2009-12-14T09:07:04+02:00

Expelled and At-risk Student Services Grant Program This program, first funded in FY 1997-98, provides grants to school districts, Boards of Cooperative Services (BOCES) and charter, alternative and private non-parochial schools (established pursuant to Section 22-38-101 et seq., C.R.S.), for provision of educational services to expelled students and to students at risk of being expelled. The Department approves four year applications for awards based on peer reviews, using a scoring rubric. Th…

Facility Summer School Grant Program

2009-11-02T06:14:39+02:00

The Facility Summer School Grant Program program gives grants to facility schools that have summer school programs. The grants pay for special instruction to children who are performing below grade level in the areas of reading, writing, or mathematics.

Family Literacy Education Grant Program

2009-11-02T06:04:02+02:00

House Bill 02-1303 established the Family Literacy Education Grant Program through which school districts, community colleges, libraries, and other organizations may receive funding to provide family literacy education, adult literacy education, and English language literacy education services. The program was to be funded with gifts, grants, or donations credited to the family_literacy_education_fund. [See Section 22-2-124 et seq., C.R.S.]

Family Support

2010-01-13T04:26:32+02:00

The state started Family Support back before we had all of the Medicaid Waiver Programs. It serves some great goals: * Keep people with disabilities at home with their families and out of institutions * Build on other sources of support * Prevent problems before they happen * Give families choices

Grant Amounts

2009-12-14T09:07:04+02:00

The Federal Academic Competitiveness Grant is gift aid for undergraduate students who need financial aid, finished a rigorous high school program and are in their first or second year of college. The first grants went out for the 2006-2007 school year.

federal_financial_participation

2009-12-09T01:54:31+02:00

Federal Financial Participation Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures, the full, official name, is the federal share of the cost of state-federal programs like Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons.

Federal Grant for State Assessments and Related Activities

2009-11-02T06:03:54+02:00

Beginning with the FY 2002-03 Long Bill, the General Assembly has used the federal_grant_for_state_assessments_and_related_activities in the Dept. of Education budget to reflect federal funds anticipated to be available to Colorado annually pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, passed by Congress in December 2001.

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages

2010-03-17T23:11:59+02:00

The FMAP and Enhanced FMAP apply to a variety of programs for which states and the federal government share the cost. They include: * Medicaid (formally “state medical assistance”) * State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) * Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Contingency Funds * The Federal share of Child Support Enforcement collections * Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund, * Title IV-E Foster Care payments * Ado…

Federal Medical Assistance Percentage

2010-03-17T23:09:01+02:00

Federal Mineral Lease

2010-02-16T10:02:40+02:00

A Federal Mineral Lease lets companies use federal lands for mineral production. The U.S. Minerals Management Service (a part of the Dept. of the Interior) collects lease payments. It gives Colorado about half of the money it collects from leases in the state. We call our share Federal Mineral Lease Revenues.

Federal Mineral Lease Revenues

2009-11-02T06:03:46+02:00

Federal mineral lease (FML) revenues are the money we get from the federal government as our share of the lease payments companies make when they mine minerals from federal land. Companies have to pay the federal government if they mine minerals like oil, gas or coal from federal land. They make three kinds of payments:

Federal Oil & Gas Leases

2010-01-13T04:22:10+02:00

The federal government owns a lot of land above oil and gas reserves, and a lot of mineral rights under land owned by other people. (That last pert is a result of the Split Estate. Much of that land is run by the Bureau of Land Management, but the Bureau's responsibility for oil and gas leasing extends to lannd controlled by other federal agencies like thqt National Forest Service. That makes the BLM's policies on mineral leasing critical to our enviroment, our natural lands and our energy s…

Federal Poverty Level

2009-10-21T07:54:46+02:00

“Poor people are everywhere; yet they are invisible. [ Molly Orshansky]I wanted them to be seen clearly by those who make decisions about their lives.” That's the reason Mollie Orshansky developed the federal poverty level back in 1963. Poor people are a little more visible today, but Orshansky's calculation puts them at the heart of hundreds of calculations used by people who make decisions about their lives.

Federally Qualified Health Center

2010-01-13T03:54:46+02:00

A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is a clinic that offer health care to people who don't have insurance and can't afford private medical clinics. The awkward name comes from the federal law that funds them through Medicare and Medicaid. FQHCs in Colorado include Clinica Compesina, the People's Clinic, Valley-Wide and others. Fifteen of Colorado's FQHCs work together under the Colorado Community Health Network.

Financial Literacy

2009-11-02T06:03:36+02:00

Pursuant to Section 22-2-127, C.R.S. (H.B. 04-1360), the State Board of Education is required to create, maintain, and make available to school districts a resource bank of materials pertaining to financial literacy. The Department is required to provide technical assistance related to curriculum design upon the request of a school district or a charter school. This provision includes a legislative declaration that the creation of a financial literacy resource bank is “an important element of an…

fiscal_year

2009-05-30T21:37:57+02:00

Colorado's fiscal year starts on July 1st and ends on June 30th. Budget

Title IV-E Foster Care

2009-12-14T09:07:06+02:00

This is the federal Foster Care Program, which finds temporary homes for children who can't live with their families until the children can return to their families, be adopted, or found another permanent home. Funding Title IV-E Foster Care is an Entitlement Programs that shares the costs of states finding and supervising foster homes. A state Title IV-E Agency gives the federal Dept. of Health and Human Services a forecast of annual costs, then monthly reports on the actual cost of running…

Fountain Valley Conduit

2009-12-14T09:07:06+02:00

The Fountain Valley Conduit delivers water from Pueblo Reservoir to communities north as far as Colorado Springs. The conduit is 45 miles long and up to 3 feet in diameter in some places. It supplies more than 20,000 acre-feet of water a year to:

four_internet_freedoms

2010-08-14T00:50:28+02:00

former FCC Chairman Powell's own words. I found it in this speech (.pdf) delivered to the Silicon Flatirons Symposium on The Digital Broadband Migration, February 8, 2004. This version of the Four Internet Freedoms is from a [[2004 speech by former FCC Chairman Powell|].

fte

2009-12-14T09:07:06+02:00

FTE is the abbreviation for Full Time Equivalent.

Fuels Taxes

2010-02-26T01:18:32+02:00

Colorado's taxes on motor fuels bring in about $550 million each year, which we spend on transportation. History of Fuel Taxes in Colorado The legislature passed the first motor fuel tax in 1933. It was four cents a gallon on gasoline. Since then the legislature has increased the tax seven times. The last increase was in 1991, but it was part of a stepped increase that the legislature passed in 1989. That year the tax increased to 20 cents per gallon; in 1991 it increased to 22 cents per …

Fuel Tracking System

2010-02-25T23:58:39+02:00

The Fuel Tracking System in the Organization of DOR monitors the movement of gasoline and other fuels around the state so we can collect the excise tax. Companies that are licensed to distribute or carry motor fuels in Colorado use the system to electronically file their monthly reports and tax returns.

Supplemental Kindergarten Enrollment

2009-12-14T09:07:07+02:00

In 2008 the legislature took the first step toward making full-day kindergarten available to all students in Colorado. The state couldn't afford to pay for all of it, so the plan built on what school districts were already doing. A lot of districts were already offering some FDK using their own money. The state, in the school finance act, added to the half-day it already offered.

Full Time Equivalent

2009-12-14T09:07:07+02:00

For budgeting, we measure the state workforce by Full Time Equivalent (FTE), which is essentially a measure of the number of hours people are working divided by the number of hours in a full-time job. A full-time job, or 1 FTE is 2,080 hours of state work.

Fund 19

2009-12-14T09:07:07+02:00

Prior to 2008, School districts that participated in the Colorado Preschool Program had to deposit all of the funding they got for it into a separate fund called Fund 19 so the state could make sure they spent the money only on approved expenses related to the program.

General Fund Revenue in FY2009-10

2009-12-14T09:07:07+02:00

~~ODT~~ General Fund (GF) revenue is driving the big changes in the fiscal year 2009-10 budget. Specifically, the decline in the amount of revenue Legislative Council is forecasting the state will get from the taxes that feed the The General Fund. Those are:

FY 2010-11 Adjustment to PERA Contributions

2010-01-15T00:44:36+02:00

This memo outlines the Office of State Planning and Budgeting's request for the Joint Budget Committee to sponsor legislation to change the State and employee contribution rates for the Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA). Specifically, the budget balancing proposal requires legislation to change Section 24-51-401 (1.7) (1) (a), C.R.S., which specifies the State employer and employee contribution amounts.

Gallagher Amendment

2009-12-14T10:37:42+02:00

Local governments collect property tax on both homes and businesses (residential and non-residential, in tax lingo). For most of Colorado's history, the assessment rate was the same for both kinds of property. The value of homes and business property grew, or shrank, about the same, so it didn't matter much.

The General Fund

2009-11-16T02:36:55+02:00

When we talk about a tight budget we're generally talking about the General Fund. That's the state's big account and it's the one the legislature has the most control over. Technically, the money in the general fund is all of the revenue and spending that aren't, by law, put into some other fund. In practical terms, it's the money the state can spend on services without the kinds of restrictions that apply to other funds.

General intangible

2009-12-14T09:57:57+02:00

“General intangible” means any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction. The term includes payment intangibles and software.

Governmental unit

2009-12-14T09:58:17+02:00

“Governmental unit” means a subdivision, agency, department, county, parish, municipality, or other unit of the government of the United States, a state, or a foreign country. The term includes an organization having a separate corporate existence if the organization is eligible to issue debt on which interest is exempt from income taxation under the laws of the United States.

Governor's Budget Request FY 2010-11

2010-01-26T08:22:11+02:00

Revisions to Colorado Tax Exemptions and Credits Budget, Governor, FY2010-11

Grade "A" Pasteurized Milk Ordinance

2010-01-19T18:39:50+02:00

The milk sanitation program of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) is one of its oldest and most respected activities. The interest of the USPHS in milk sanitation stems from two important public health considerations. First, of all foods, none surpasses milk as a single source of those dietary elements needed for the maintenance of proper health, especially in children and older citizens. For this reason, the USPHS has for many years promoted increased milk consumption. Second, milk…

Great Outdoors Colorado

2010-04-23T09:19:43+02:00

Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) distributes proceeds from the Colorado Lottery to projects that protect and enhance outdoor life in Colorado. GOCO Spending The constitution requires that half of the proceeds from the Colorado Lottery, up to a cap equal to $35 million in 1992 dollars adjusted for inflation, go into the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund. In 2008 the inflation-adjusted cap was just over $53 million.

Ground-Level Ozone

2009-12-14T09:07:08+02:00

This is the bad ozone and it's most of what usually gets called smog. It's dangerous to humans, it hurts the environment and it can make an area so hazy that it's hard to see into the distance. Ozone Dangers Inhaling even a little bit of ozone can cause a lot of damage including:

Habilitation

2009-12-16T21:12:05+02:00

Habilitation services help people learn skills and develop new interests so they can become more independent and less reliant on assistance from other people. Habilitation helps people get better at things like: * making friends * fitting into their communities * communicating more effectively * managing money * joining in recreation * taking care of themselves * staying safe

hcpf

2009-12-14T09:07:08+02:00

Indigent Care Program Comprehensive Primary Care Program

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Accountable Care Organizations

2009-12-29T03:45:10+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Describe the Plan for Accountable Care Organizations Please describe in detail, the Department’s rollout plan for Accountable Care Organizations, specifically the pilot program envisioned for FY 2010-11. Specifically address, what Medicaid populations will be included, how will it be funded, and how will the program’s effectiveness and cost savings be determined?

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Delaying Provider Payments

2009-12-22T03:23:45+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Impact to Providers from Delaying Payment What will be the impact to providers and their business cash flows from reducing Medicaid payments by one month? Specifically address BHO and MCO payment delays for those providers.

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Durable Medical Equipment

2009-12-22T02:58:14+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Impact of DME Reductions to Clients Over the past few years, the Department worked with DME providers to provide an adequate and safe amount of nutritional supplies. This has led to decreases in benefits over the last few years. What was the rationale to decrease this benefit once again?

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 HB 09-1293 and Indigent Care

2009-12-22T03:53:04+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Please explain the impacts to hospital reimbursement from all of the different components of the Department’s budget request (including reductions to rates, reductions in ICP grant funding, and increases from reimbursement under HB 09-1293).

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Home Health and HCBS

2009-12-22T03:00:12+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Home Health Rates & Home and Community-Based Services Please describe the total impact to home health reimbursement and home and community based services from the provider rate reductions and benefit changes.

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Medicaid Cuts

2009-12-22T03:39:21+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Cutting Medicaid to Balance the Budget Please comment generally on Department’s policy approach to reducing the Medicaid program in order meet the budget reduction targets necessary because of the economic situation.

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Mental Health Programs

2009-12-22T03:50:16+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Mental Health Program Please explain how recent rate reductions may impact the actuarial soundness of the mental health capitation rates. Dept. Response There are two sets of rules that govern ‘actuarial soundness’ for Colorado Medicaid capitation rates. Federal regulation lists the requirements for determining actuarially sound rates and requires that an actuary retained by the state certify that the rates meet these requirements. Add…

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Nursing Facilities

2009-12-22T03:03:02+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Changes to Nursing Facility Fee Please describe how the nursing facility fee will change under the Department’s proposal. Please describe the total impact to nursing facilities under the Department’s budget request.

HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Pharmacy Reimbursement

2009-12-22T02:50:38+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Pharmacy Rates Please describe the policy reasons for the reductions made to pharmacy since FY 2001-02 {include both utilization controls and reimbursement reductions}. Dept. Response Pharmacy Reimbursement Approximately 93% of in-state pharmacies currently contract with Colorado Medicaid. Data queried December 17, 2009 show 872 in-state pharmacies are enrolled as Medicaid providers out of 944 reported by the Colorado Board of Pharma…

FY2010-11 Provider Rate Reductions

2009-12-22T02:41:53+02:00

This is part of HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11. Provider Rate Reductions Please describe the provider rate reductions that the Department has implemented since July 1, 2009 and the new provider rate reductions proposed for FY 2010-11. Dept. Response The Department has implemented several varieties of provider rate/expenditure reductions since the beginning of the fiscal year including targeted rate reductions, strategies for limiting utilization and volume, administrative pricing a…

HCPF JBC Hearing Responses FY 2010-11

2009-12-22T03:52:03+02:00

These are responses HCPF delivered for the JBC Hearing on December 21, 2009. HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Medicaid Cuts HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Delaying Provider Payments FY2010-11 Provider Rate Reductions HCPF Hearing FY2010-11 Pharmacy Reimbursement

The Health Care Services Fund

2010-03-17T23:04:47+02:00

Referendum C raised the money for the Health Care Services Fund, which makes more people eligible for health care under the Colorado Indigent Care Program (CICP). SB 06-044, which implemented part of Referendum C, authorized CICP reimbursement for people earning up to 250% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). Before that the limit had been 200% of FPL.

Health CEOs for Health Reform

2009-08-21T05:55:19+02:00

Health CEOs for Health Reform (HC4HR)is a group of executives of health care organizations that support health care reform. They support three general principles: * Health reform is an urgent priority for our nation and should not be postponed.ate. * Meaningful health reform entails both quality, affordable health coverage for all and delivery system reform. This will require all stakeholders to move away from “business as usual.” * A more sustainable health system will require all hea…

Health Insurance Coverage

2009-08-26T22:40:57+02:00

Coverage has become almost synonymous with access to health care in America. It's because the way we handle health care as pushed its cost up higher than most individuals can afford and discounts are available usually only to people who have an insurance company negotiating on their behalf. As a result, people who don't have health insurance tend not to get health care.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 - Security Remediation

2010-03-03T07:28:26+02:00

This section in the Dept. of Human Services makes sure the Department protects private health information in compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule. It developed a risk assessment to make sure the Department's security is working and integrates the assessment into the Department's IT processes.

Health, Life, and Dental

2009-11-09T22:17:20+02:00

This line covers the cost of health, life and dental insurance for a department's employees. The line is in the Executive Director's Office (EDO). During an open enrollment period each year employees pick an insurance plan. The state pays a fixed amount per employee and the employee pays the difference between the state's contribution and the cost of the plan.

High Cost Support Mechanism

2010-04-13T20:47:55+02:00

Annual Report of the Colorado High Cost Support Mechanism to the General Assembly (2000) History of the High Cost Support Mechanism Colorado's high-cost support mechanism can be traced back to a national policy of giving every American a way to communicate through telecommunications. It's in the Communications Act of 1934:

High School Graduation Rate

2009-07-21T09:40:56+02:00

The High School Graduation Rate is a hard statistic to get a handle on. One big problem is that there are so many different ways to calculate the rate. That makes it nearly impossible to compare the rates for different states. And that murky calculation comes on top of a wide range of graduation requirements even within Colorado.

Higher Education Competitive Research Authority

2009-11-16T08:47:18+02:00

The Colorado Higher Education Competitive Research Authority (CHECRA) uses money from the Innovative Higher Education Research Fund to pay a state match when universities apply federal research grants. SB 07-182 created the Authority. The state gets a great return in federal grant money for its contribution.

Higher Education Fees

2010-01-14T23:20:17+02:00

The majority of fees charged by institutions are related to self-supporting auxiliaries, such as parking, housing, or food services, and are not appropriated by the General Assembly. However, fees related to the academic mission of the institutions are appropriated in the Long Bill. The logic for appropriating academic fees is that these fees could serve as a direct substitute for tuition.

Higher Education Tuition Authority

2009-12-03T10:18:39+02:00

M E M O R A N D U M TO: Joint Budget Committee FROM: Eric Kurtz SUBJECT: Tuition Authority DATE: March 12, 2007 This memo is intended to highlight some of the key statutory and constitutional provisions governing the process of setting tuition.

Highway Users Tax Fund

2010-02-26T01:10:52+02:00

HUTF Revenue The HUTF gets money from two sources: * Gas tax * Vehicle registration fees FASTER FASTER, Funding Advancements for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery (aka SB 09-108), increased various fees and fines to raise money for transportation improvements.

HIPAA Security Rule

2010-03-03T07:03:50+02:00

The HIPAA Security Rule protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal health information that's stored or transmitted electronically. It requires organizations that have personal health information to take reasonable care to keep it confidential, including:

Home and Community Based Services Waivers

2009-12-21T19:37:29+02:00

Section 1915(c) Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers let states offer services in people's homes and communities so that they don't have to live in institutions. Thus the name home- and community-based. The services include: * Personal Care * adult day health * Habilitation (e,g, physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, case management, life skill training, medication management) * respite care * other services that keep people out of institutions

Home Care Allowance

2009-11-07T08:25:13+02:00

The Home Care Allowance (HCA) is a small stipend to help elderly or disabled people pay for help around the house, like bathing, moving around and managing money. It's for people who have already qualified for other assistance, like Aid to the Needy Disabled or an Old Age Pension.

Homelake Domiciliary

2010-02-16T06:55:05+02:00

[The main building at the Colorado State Veterans Center at Homelake.]The Homelake Domiciliary is home to veterans and their families who need help with meals, housekeeping, personal care, laundry, and occasional treatment by a doctor, but not continuous nursing or medical care.

House Rule 23

2009-05-06T23:38:14+02:00

House Rule 23 describes decorum in the House Chamber. * Members may not leave the chamber when the vote is being called. * Members may not disrupt the proceedings with loud side conversations. * Members violating the rules may be called to order by the Speaker of the House. * A member shall speak to the question under discussion or debate, avoiding personalities. * Only members are allowed in the center aisle and in the well, except in certain circumstances. * No one may sit in a m…

How to Read the Budget

2009-12-14T09:59:34+02:00

In the Executive Director's Office (EDO) of each department you'll see a list of budget items called Common Policies. The rates for each of these is set statewide, so only the amounts used varies from department to department.

In-state Purchasing Preferences

2009-11-21T01:05:32+02:00

Colorado In-state Preference Laws Agricultural Products: Preference for state agricultural products, Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 8-18-103. Contract awarded to resident bidder who produces products in state if of equal quality, suitable for bid, sufficient in quantity, and bid price equal or not reasonably exceeding lowest bid.

Increase in Funding for Various Agricultural Programs

2009-12-14T09:07:10+02:00

The passage of H.B. 08-1399 changed the allocation of interest earned on the sale of securities determined to be abandoned property and then credited to the Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund. The moneys received will support numerous initiatives, each directed at furthering the overall mission of the Department. Specifically, in the first two years, the Department anticipates that these moneys will be allocated to provide additional funding to the State Fair, noxious weed efforts, the C…

Indigent Care Program

2009-12-09T01:11:52+02:00

The Safety Net Provider Payment, the Children's Hospital Clinic Based Indigent Care, and the Pediatric Speciality Hospital line items provide direct or indirect funding to hospitals and clinics that have uncompensated costs from treating approximately 172,500 under-insured or uninsured Coloradans through the Indigent Care Program.

Indirect Cost Recoveries

2009-12-14T09:59:56+02:00

These are the overhead costs of running programs that are funded with outside money, like grants and federal funds. The overhead includes things like office space, phones, desks and computers. We usually make departments use some of the outside money to cover these costs, a process we call Indirect Cost Recovery.

Indirect Costs

2009-11-02T06:12:29+02:00

Indirect costs are the overhead costs associated with the operation of general government functions and departmental administrative duties. Indirect cost recoveries are intended to offset these overhead costs, that otherwise would be supported by the General Fund, from cash- and federally- funded programs. Recoveries from cash and federally-funded programs are calculated for statewide and departmental overhead costs. Statewide indirect cost recoveries are designed to offset costs of operating ge…

individually identifiable health information

2010-03-03T07:02:38+02:00

Under HIPAA, individually identifiable health information (IIHI) is protected health information that can be linked to a specific person, usually a patient. The term has two key components: * health information * individually identifiable Protected Health Information Under HIPAA, protected health information includes:

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

2009-11-02T06:20:12+02:00

The Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the federal law requiring school districts to offer special education to students with disabilities in return for getting federal funding. It covers children from birth through age 21. IDEA tells states and school districts what educational and other services they have to offer to children with disabilities. State's don't technically have to follow the law but, if they don't, they get no federal special education funding.

Eldercare locator Hot-line

2009-12-14T09:07:11+02:00

The hotline helps people who live in other areas but caring for someone in Colorado find assistance. The number is: 800-677-1116 Safety Net, Dept. of Human Services

Innovative Higher Education Research Fund

2009-12-14T09:07:11+02:00

The Innovative Higher Education Research Fund gets 10 cents of each $1.50 waste tire fee. The Fund pays the state match that lets Colorado universities compete for federal research grants. The Higher Education Competitive Research Authority awards the grants.

InstaCheck

2009-12-14T09:07:12+02:00

Colorado's “InstaCheck” performs the criminal background check that state law requires before a person can buy a firearm. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) operates InstaCheck. It runs about 200,000 (2009 data) checks a year. Budget for InstaCheck The state's The General Fund (GF) most of the cost of InstaCheck (87%). The state's

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

2009-12-14T09:07:12+02:00

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA - Pronounced “Ice Tea”) is a $155 billion federal legislation signed into law in December 1991 calls for broad changes in the way transportation decisions are made. ISTEA emphasizes diversity and balance of modes, as well as the preservation of existing systems before construction of new facilities.

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

2010-01-19T18:50:49+02:00

Jail Backlog

2009-12-23T01:30:06+02:00

The Jail backlog is the number of inmates who have been sentenced to state prisons, but are still in county jails. The Dept. of Corrections pays counties for holding the prisoners, but counties complain that the payment doesn't cover their costs. Money aside, a backlog can also add to overcrowding at county jails.

Joint Audit Program

2010-02-25T23:43:36+02:00

This is a line item in the Organization of DOR budget that pays for Colorado's membership in the Multi-State Tax Commission (MTC). The MTC conducts audits on out-of-state businesses to make sure they're paying their fair share of Colorado taxes. The membership costs us just over $130,000 a year. The MTC audits lead to about $8.5 million in tax adjustments each year.

Judicial Branch

2009-05-30T22:05:23+02:00

The Judicial Branch (not, technically, department because it's not part of the Executive Branch) is the Colorado's state court system. It's run by the Colorado Supreme Court – specifically the Chief Justice In addition to managing most courts in Colorado, it also regulates the legal profession and runs probation services.

justice_terms

2009-04-13T01:33:58+02:00

Absconder Access and Risk Management Plan (ARM) Administrative Regulation Index (AR Index) Adult Substance Use Survey - Revised - Revised (ASUS-R) American Correctional Association (ACA) Ambulatory Restraint Anti-Tamper Mit: Cloth device which encloses the offender’s wrists and hands that are being held together with wrist restraints. The mit is secured in place and prevents the offender from accessing the key opening during transport.

Kaiser Permanente Colorado

2009-12-14T09:07:16+02:00

Kaiser Permanente Colorado is the state's largest nonprofit health insurance organization. It has 480,000 members, including many state employees. It covers people in: * Denver * Boulder * Southern Colorado Kaiser Permanente Colorado provides comprehensive health care services to 480,000 members through 17 medical offices and a network of affiliated hospitals and physicians.

Kresge Foundation

2009-12-14T09:07:16+02:00

From the Kresge Foundation website: The Kresge Foundation is a $3.1 billion private, national foundation that supports communities by building the capacity of nonprofit organizations in six fields: health, the environment, arts and culture, education, human services and community development.

Laboratory Services Division

2009-12-14T10:17:16+02:00

The Laboratory Services Division of CDPHE is divided into specialties: * Central Services Unit * Quality Assurance Unit * Customer Relations, Public Information and Training Unit * Chemistry Program * Microbiology Program * Newborn Screening * Evidential Breath Alcohol Testing Program * Water testing * Food Testing * Molecular Testing

Lease Purchase

2009-11-02T06:20:18+02:00

The recommendation is for a continuation of existing lease purchase agreements. Requests for additional lease purchase funds are examined on an individual basis and funded where appropriate. No funds may be expended for lease purchase except those specifically appropriated for that purpose.

Leased Space

2009-12-14T09:07:16+02:00

This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office, with some exceptions. The intent is to ensure that each executive director reviews and manages a department's use of leased space. Budget, Common Policies

Legal Services

2009-12-14T09:07:16+02:00

This line item pays for the legal services a department buys from the Administration Division. It's usually in the Executive Director's Office. Funding is based on an estimate of the amount of legal services the department will need. It's calculated by multiplying the estimated number of hours by the year's rate for legal services.

Legislative Council

2009-12-14T09:07:16+02:00

Legislative Council is both a committee that oversees the Legislative Branch and a nonpartisan staff that does research for the legislature. The Legislative Council is a joint, bipartisan committee that manages the workings of the Legislative Branch.

LiveWell Colorado

2009-05-20T19:44:30+02:00

From the LiveWell Colorado website: All Coloradoans enjoy a lifestyle that includes healthy eating and active living. The state’s tradition of health and wellness is fully embraced by its residents. Mission Statement LiveWell Colorado’s mission is to inspire and advance policy, environmental and lifestyle changes that promote health through the prevention and reduction of obesity.

LiveWell Longmont

2009-12-14T09:07:17+02:00

LiveWell Longmont is a movement designed to ensure that healthy lifestyle choices are always available and convenient for all who work, live, play, and learn in our community. Goals 1. In five years, LiveWell Longmont will increase the percentage of Longmont residents eating five fruits and vegetables each day from 42% to 62%. 2. In five years, there will be a 25% increase in the number of people in Longmont who incorporate biking, walking, and other physical activity into dail…

Text of the Supreme Court Decision

2010-01-19T07:06:36+02:00

Colorado Supreme Court -- October 19, 2009 No. 08SC185. Lobato v. State of Colorado. SUPREME COURT, STATE OF COLORADO Two East 14th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80203 Certiorari to the Colorado Court of Appeals Court of Appeals Case No. 06CA0733 Case No. 08SC185

local_government_limited_gaming_impact_fund

2010-01-20T23:23:18+02:00

This fund consists of 13 percent of all limited gaming tax revenues (less administrative expenditures) received by the State that would otherwise be transferred to the General Fund (50 percent). Thus, essentially 6.5 percent of all limited gaming tax revenues received.

Local Government Limited Gaming Impact Program

2009-10-15T20:49:42+02:00

The Local Government Limited Gaming Impact Program (LGLGIP) gives grants to communities that suffer the problems caused by casinos, but don't directly get any revenue from the casinos. Cities, counties and special district can apply once a year for each annual round of grants.

Local Government Mineral Impact Fund

2010-02-16T09:54:47+02:00

The Dept. of Local Affairs uses money from the Local Government Mineral Impact Fund to subsidize local governments that are “socially or economically impacted” by mineral development. Use of the Fund Half of the money goes to local governments through direct distributions and the other half goes through grants. Governments can use the money to plan, build and maintain their infrastructure and to finance public services.

local_government_permanent_fund

2010-01-20T22:28:19+02:00

This fund consists of 50 percent of the State's share of all “bonus” (fixed and upfront) payments made to the federal government in consideration for granting a lease. Revenues are deposited as they come in on an ongoing basis from the federal government. The purpose of the fund is to help assist localities mitigate fluctuations in federal mineral lease revenues. Statute provides that in the event that federal mineral lease revenues deposited into the fund decline by 10 percent or more than the …

Local Government Severance Tax Fund

2010-02-16T09:42:21+02:00

Half of the money the state gets from its Severance Tax goes into the Local Government Severance Tax Fund to help local governments that are “impacted” by mineral development. Distributing the Money The Dept. of Local Affairs manages the fund. By law, it distributes the money two ways:

Local Public Health Planning and Support

2010-02-26T01:55:58+02:00

The Local Public Health Planning and Support division provides technical and financial support for health and environmental services that are delivered by local health agencies around the state. The division is supported by the General Fund, cash funds from tobacco-settlement revenues, and federal funds.

long-term_care

2009-09-05T23:05:16+02:00

Long-Term Care Nursing homes? That’s what most people think. Actually, long-term care describes a much broader range of health and personal care needed by those who are chronically ill or aged. A person’s need for services changes over time and usually increases with age or as an illness progresses. People who initially need part-time assistance at home —perhaps a homemaker or the delivery of meals — may gradually need more extensive support services such as adult day care. Additionally, a time …

Longitudinal Analyses of Student Assessment Results

2009-11-02T06:24:56+02:00

Since 2000, the General Assembly has passed several bills concerning Longitudinal Analyses of Student Assessment Results, and the provision of diagnostic information to districts and schools for the purpose of improving instruction: * S.B. 00-186

Major Medical Legal Services

2010-02-19T23:20:20+02:00

Major medical legal services is a line in the Dept. of Labor and Employment budget. It pays for legal services from the Dept. of Law when the Department has to defend decisions it makes on Major Medical Benefits. Specifically, the line pays to: * defend denials of a claimant's eligibility * defend denial of medical benefits * defend a decision to remove a doctor from a case during utilization review

Management and Administration of OIT

2009-12-14T09:07:18+02:00

This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office or in the department's centralized IT services division. The Governor's Office of Information Technology is responsible for a variety of general IT policies for the state, including network security and standardization of hardware and software. This line item covers expenses associated with the division-level management of the Office and the “back office” functions such as IT security that were authorized by S.B. 08-155. For…

Medicaid

2009-12-09T01:55:30+02:00

Medicaid is how low-income Americans get health care. It pays medical bills for people — mostly children and chronically-ill — who otherwise couldn't afford health care. The cost is shared by the federal and state governments. The share varies, but in Colorado it's 50-50. The state's total Medicaid bill comes to just under $2 billion; the state share takes up 20% of our The General Fund budget, making it the second biggest cost after education.

Medicaid Benefits

2009-12-21T19:30:57+02:00

Under federal law, states that participate in Medicaid have to offer some benefits; states have the option of adding other benefits. These are the mandatory benefits and the optional ones Colorado offers. Mandatory Benefits * Physician services and medical/surgical services of a dentist * Lab and x-ray services * Inpatient hospital services * Outpatient hospital services * Early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment (EPSDT) services for individuals under 21 * Family pl…

Medicaid Caseload

2009-12-14T09:07:18+02:00

The Medicaid caseload is one of three factors that control the amount Colorado has to pay for Medical Services Premiums. The caseload, in turn, is driven by three other factors: * the economy * changes in eligibility * population growth The Economy and Medicaid Caseload Income, or the lack of it, is the main way people qualify for Medicaid. For that reason, Medicaid caseload generally swings with the economy, going up when the economy is down and down when the economy is up. It make…

Medicaid Provider Rates

2009-12-14T09:07:18+02:00

Provider Rates refers to the amount of money we pay to organizations that deliver services that Medicaid pays for. The actual amounts paid vary, but the legislature tends to adjust the rates as a whole with percentage increases and decreases. For example, one year the legislature might raise provider rates by 2%.

Medicaid Providers

2009-12-21T20:15:13+02:00

The benefits Colorado offers through Medicaid are services delivered by people and organizations like doctors, hospitals, home health care agencies, pharmacies and equipment suppliers. As a group, we call them “providers.” Most of the money in Medicaid goes to providers. The state sets the amount providers get through ”provider rates.” If provider rates are too low, people won't offer the service. If they're too high, we're spending too much.

Medicaid Waivers

2009-12-21T19:50:36+02:00

Some Medicaid federal funding comes through special waivers granted by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). That federal match comes with a lot of rules. Waivers let states offer some services without all of the rules so they can explore new ways of caring for people and paying for that care.

Medical Marijuana

2010-04-08T08:27:52+02:00

Interpretations of the Medical Marijuana Provision People v. Clendenin Medical Marijuana in the Colorado Constitution This is Article XVIII, Section 14 of the Colorado Constitution. Section 14. Medical use of marijuana for persons suffering from debilitating medical conditions. (1) As used in this section, these terms are defined as follows:

Medical Services Premiums

2009-10-21T06:59:44+02:00

Medical services premiums in the Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) budget is what we pay to cover medical costs for people on Medicaid. The amount the state has to pay is determined by the number of people who quality for Medicaid (Medicaid Caseload), the cost of medical care and the amount of medical care Medicaid clients need.

Medical Underwriting

2010-01-13T04:16:33+02:00

Medical Underwriting is one way insurance companies decide whether to cover you and how much to charge you for coverage. They try to figure out how healthy you are so they can predict how much you're likely to cost them in benefits. The Process Before issuing you insurance a company examines your medical history, your health and your habits. They're assessing the risk they're taking in promising to pay your medical bills. If the risk is too high, the company might not offer you a policy, or i…

Medically Indigent

2009-11-04T01:27:23+02:00

A person is medically indigent if he or she has a family income below 250% of the Federal Poverty Level and has no private or public insurance. Health

Medicare

2010-01-05T05:46:48+02:00

Medicare offers health insurance to every American over 65 years old, and some who are younger. It started insuring senior citizens in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson launched an idea that had originated with President Harry Truman suggested two decades earlier.

Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

2009-12-29T05:03:03+02:00

The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) each year collects data on Medicare, its beneficiaries and their health care. The information helps people evaluate Medicare and craft changes to the program. Collecting Data The goal of the MCBS is to keep track of some key information about Medicare and its beneficiaries:

Medication reconciliation

2009-12-14T09:07:19+02:00

Medication reconciliation protects patients by making sure they get the right drugs, don't get the wrong drugs and don't mix incompatible drugs. It starts with a complete list of all the medications the person is taking, including all of the relevant information:

Mental Health Institute Division

2009-12-09T23:44:46+02:00

The Mental Health Institute Division of the Dept. of Human Services operates the state’s two mental health institutes at Fort Logan and Pueblo. The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan (Fort Logan) and the The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) are both considered Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD) under federal law because both have more than 16 beds and are primarily engaged in providing diagnosis, treatment, or care of persons with mental diseases, including medic…

Motion to Dismiss

2009-05-16T03:33:28+02:00

U.S. Supreme Court Milheim v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement Dist., 262 U.S. 710 (1923) Milheim v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement District No. 791 Motion to dismiss or affirm submitted February 20, 1923 Decided June 11, 1923 262 U.S. 710 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT

Mill Levy Freeze Lawsuit

2010-01-19T08:05:06+02:00

ADVANCE SHEET HEADNOTE March 16, 2009 No. 08SA216 – Mesa County Bd. of County Comm’rs v. State of Colorado – Constitutionality of Statute – Amended School Finance Act dual state/local funding system does not violate article X, section 20 of the Colorado Constitution

Mineral Audit Program

2009-12-16T00:30:04+02:00

This unit audits: * oil, gas, and mineral rents and royalties; * the mill levy from oil and gas production; * severance taxes from federal, state, and private lands. It receives funding from the U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service under a cooperative agreement for delegated authority to audit federal minerals production in Colorado. Federal royalties are shared 50/50 with the state.

Mobile Data Computer

2010-03-08T23:36:48+02:00

The Mobile Data Computer (MDC) system lets the State Patrol (CSP) put a computer system in each patrol car. Those computers make each officer more efficient and help keep order during emergencies. Use of the MDC System Patrol officers use their MDC systems for:

History of the Tunnel

2009-12-14T10:00:56+02:00

[to 1928] The following is an excerpt from Ingram, Yearbook of the State of Colorado 1939-1940, Tolbert R. ed. Denver: The Bradford Robinson Ftg. Co. & Colorado State Planning Commission, 1940, 441-442. “The propensity of man to battle and overcome natural barriers in his path of progress is illustrated in Colorado by the many miles of tunnels which have been constructed to level railroad grades through the mountains, convey water from the rivers to the valleys for irrigation purposes, recov…

Moffat Tunnel Improvement District

2009-12-14T10:00:31+02:00

The History of the Tunnel Selling the Tunnel In 1996, the legislature put the Dept. of Local Affairs in charge of the district. But it was considered something of a worst case scenario. S.B. 96-233 transfered the District's powers to DOLA, but not until Feb. 1, 1998. In the mean time, the law gave the District the authority to sell the tunnel. DOLA was only to take over if the District didn't sell it.

Multiuse Network Payments

2009-07-21T09:53:22+02:00

This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office, with a few exceptions. The multiuse network aggregates the State's telecommunications infrastructure onto one medium of transport. The network carries the State's voice, video, text, and graphics communications needs, and it also serves as the Internet service provider for the State. Additionally, local governments and other governmental agencies can access the network through the State, rather than through its private sect…

municipalities

2009-09-23T23:30:58+02:00

Most of us call a place a city or a town based on a gut sense of its size and “quaintness,” but legally there is a difference. Both are municipalities. Towns have fewer than 2,000 residents and cities have more. If a town grows beyond 2,000 residents, they can vote to reclassify themselves as a city. If a city falls below 2,000 residents, they can vote to revert back to town status.

National Assessment of Educational Progress

2009-12-14T10:31:52+02:00

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests 4th, 8th and 12th graders. Doesn't report results by student or by school; it's used to compare state to one another. The same test is given in every state, so the NAEP doesn't doesn't align with an individual state's standards.

National Credential Program

2009-11-02T06:33:45+02:00

The National Credential Program helps teachers pay for certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBTS). The state money matches the amount teachers get from a federal assistance program. Procedurally, individuals apply for federal fee assistance first. If the federal application is approved, the National Board for Teaching Standards submits a request to the Department for a matching amount of state funds.

National Governors Association

2009-12-24T01:52:42+02:00

The National Governors Association (NGA) is like a trade group for the nation's governors. All of the governors belong, including those of the 50 states, three territories and two commonwealths. Governor's formed the NGA in 1908 after discussing conservation issues with President Theodore Roosevelt. They wanted a way to talk among themselves about issues that affected states and, when they agreed on policy, a way to act collectively.

The National Transportation System

2009-05-03T02:07:25+02:00

The National Transportation System (NTS) is a proposal by the U.S. Transportation Secretary to integrate all aspects and modes of the transportation system into a single national system. The National Highway System is expected to be a subset of the larger, multimodal NTS. It was described in the The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act ISTEA.

Never Events

2009-12-21T05:56:40+02:00

The National Quality Forum (NQF) developed a list of 28 Never Events, sometimes called Serious Reportable Events as part of its effort to improve the safety of patients in hospitals. The term “Never Event” itself is generally attributed to former NQF CEO Ken Kizer, MD.

Non-Bonus Federal Mineral Lease Payments

2010-02-16T09:57:26+02:00

This is money the state gets as its share of Federal Mineral Lease payments that come from: * leases * rents * royalties They don't include bonus payments, which companies make to secure valuable leases, and oil shale payments. Energy, Federal, Budget

Nonattainment

2009-12-14T10:29:02+02:00

When a region violates air pollution standards the EPA designates it a nonattainment area. The designation puts enormous pressure on local governments to clean up the air enough to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The rules are part of the federal Clean Air Act.

Nonattainment New Source Review

2009-12-14T10:23:56+02:00

As a state is working to reduce air pollution from existing sources, EPA prevents it from generating more pollution from new sources. The agency reviews any new factories, refineries or other developments that could add a lot of pollution. EPA will only authorize the development if its convinced that it won't cause air pollution to get any worse. Projects can do that three ways:

Noxious Weed Management Fund

2010-02-16T05:16:51+02:00

[Orange hawkweed is a noxious weed in Colorado.]The Noxious Weed Management Fund pays for controlling harmful weeds around the state, usually through local weed control districts and other local groups. Use of the Fund The Dept. of Agriculture, sometimes with permission from the Agricultural Commission can spend money from the fund for pretty much anything that has to do with fighting weeds. That includes:

Nurse Home Visitor Program

2009-12-14T09:07:49+02:00

The Nurse Home Visitor Program (NHVP) helps low-income, first-time mothers have healthier children by offering them health tips and counseling by specially-trained nurses. The nurses start visiting mothers at home when they become pregnant and continue visiting until the child's second birthday. The service is available to mothers who earn up to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.

Office of Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement

2010-01-21T02:41:59+02:00

The Office of Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement in the Dept. of Education works with schools and school districts to keep students from dropping out and help more students graduate from high school. The Office also assembles information on dropout prevention programs that have worked in Colorado and around the country. It makes the information available to school districts so they can incorporate it into their plans.

Office of Health Disparities

2009-12-08T21:25:09+02:00

The Office of Health Disparities has described itself as “a state program of multi-cultural professionals dedicated to eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities in Colorado, by fostering systems change and capacity building through multi-sectoral collaboration.”

Office of Preparedness, Security and Fire Safety

2009-11-19T20:52:44+02:00

The statutory mandate of the Office of Preparedness, Security and Fire Safety is to coordinate the State's response to the threat of terrorism. The budget has been driven primarily by the availability of federal homeland security funds, although in recent years the Division has requested and received some General Fund to replace declining federal funds. The Division of Fire Safety maintains the Colorado Resource Mobilization Plan and is building the Resource Inventory Database.

The Office of the Child's Representative

2009-06-22T08:58:57+02:00

The Office of the Child's Representative (OCR) provides legal representation for children involved in the court system due to: * abuse or neglect * delinquency * truancy * high conflict divorce * alcohol or drug abuse * mental health issues * probate matters

Oil and gas small well exemption

2010-01-07T23:12:49+02:00

Colorado exempts small oil and gas wells from the state severance tax. The state's definition of “small” is up to: * 15 barrels a day for oil * 90 MCF a day for gas Energy, Taxes and Fees

Old Age Pension

2009-12-01T00:15:38+02:00

The Old Age Pension (OAP) program offers financial assistance and may provide medical benefits for low-income Coloradans who are 60 years old or older. They must meet basic eligibility requirements to be eligible for this program. Coloradans, through an initiative, added OAP to the state constitution in 1937. The legislature, which opposed the idea, delayed starting it for more than a decade.

"Old Hire" Fire and Police Pension Plans

2009-04-04T09:37:50+02:00

Economic conditions, specifically the decline in stock markets, significantly affect the State's obligations to fund contributions to the “old hire” fire and police pension plans. * To assist in addressing the poor funding status of local pension plans for firefighters and police officers that existed in the late 1970s, the General Assembly has contributed $538 million General Fund to 110 local “old hire” pension plans since 1980. * Current law requires continued state contributions of at …

Operating Expenses

2009-11-09T22:27:45+02:00

In the Colorado state budget, operating expenses pay for things like office supplies, travel, equipment, subscriptions to publications and maintenance. For items that are used across departments, like telephones, computers and postage, the Office of State Planning and Budgeting sets the rates tht departments use in their budgets.

The Operational Account

2010-02-16T08:59:05+02:00

The Operational Account The Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund gets half of the severance tax revenue that goes into the Severance Tax Trust Fund plus any interest it earns on the money. By law, money in the account is to “promote and encourage sound natural resource planning, management, and development related to minerals, energy, geology, and water.” By the numbers, it has traditionally broken out this way:

Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund

2009-12-22T23:55:33+02:00

Section 39-29-108 (2), C.R.S., provides that 50 percent of severance tax revenues are credited to the Severance Tax Trust Fund and 50 percent of the revenues are used by the Department of Local Affairs for grants and distributions to local governments impacted by mining activities. Of the revenue credited to the Severance Tax Trust Fund, 50 percent is allocated to the Perpetual Base Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund (or 25 percent of total severance tax revenues), which is used by the Colo…

Oregon All-Payer, All-Claims Data Base Proposal

2009-12-06T20:21:16+02:00

POLICY BRIEF: All-Payer, All-Claims Data Base April 2009 SB 453A Office for Oregon Health Policy & Research The current health care delivery system in Oregon does not consistently deliver high-quality care or recommended evidence-based care to Oregonians. For instance, only 40% of adults over age 50 receive recommended preventive care, and only 84% of hospitalized patients receive recommended care for myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and pneumonia. Yet almost $20 billion dol…

Particulates

2009-12-14T09:07:51+02:00

Particulates are small bits of duct, soot, smoke and liquid that can hang in the air and get sucked into your lungs. PM-10 These are tiny particles that float around in the air. They cause health problems when you breath them in. They're small enough that they slip past defenses in your airway and wind up in your lungs. If they get into your lungs often they can cause cancer and lung disease. Short-term exposure can irritate you eyes, nose, throat and lungs, but doesn't usually cause long-te…

Patented Mining Claims

2010-01-13T04:23:20+02:00

When you patent a mining claim on federal land, the land is yours; the government turns over the deed. At that point you can continuing mining, build a home, subdivide it, or sell it. To patent the land, you technically had to prove to the federal government that the land had enough minerals to be worth mining and that you were in fact mining. Then you have to pay the people of the United States up to $5/acre for the land. I say technically prove the land's for mining because I've seen land tha…

Payment to Risk Management and Property Funds

2009-07-21T09:54:31+02:00

This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office. The recommendation represents each department's share of the statewide cost of property and liability insurance coverage, based on a three-year average loss history as verified by an independent actuarial firm. A matching amount of spending authority is provided to the Department of Personnel and Administration to pay administrative, legal, and claims costs for the State's liability self-insurance and to pay premiums. There…

People v. Clendenin

2010-04-08T11:31:19+02:00

In People v. Clendenin, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that “caregivers” under the Colorado Constitution's Medical Marijuana provision have to be more than just drug dealers. Voters added the Medical Marijuana section to the constitution in 2000. In 2006, Stacy Clendenin was convicted on five counts of growing marijuana in her home in Longmont. The trial court sentenced her to probation. She appealed the conviction hoping to clear the felony from her record.

Performance-based Pay Awards

2009-11-02T06:08:06+02:00

The recommendation does not include appropriations for performance-based pay increases for FY 2009-10. Performance-based pay increases for department staff, when provided, are funded through centrally-appropriated line items in the Executive Director's Office of the Department's budget in the year of the award and are incorporated into base funding for each division in the subsequent year. These centralized appropriations were provided for FY 2008-09 but are not recommended for FY 2009-10.

Perpetual Base Account

2010-02-16T08:51:12+02:00

The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) uses money in the perpetual base account for loans and grants for: * flood control * water supply * hydroelectric energy * recreation facilities It can't use the money for domestic water treatment and distribution systems. If the governor declares a drought emergency, the state can spend $1 million from the perpetual base account to supply people with water during the drought.

Personal Care

2009-12-16T22:37:40+02:00

Personal care under Medicaid offers the elderly, people with disabilities, and others with the care they need to stay in their homes or communities, rather than move to an institution like a nursing home. In Colorado and around the country the amount of personal care delivered and the cost of delivering that care is increasing quickly. The cost, though, is probably more than offset by avoiding the higher expense of paying for care in nursing homes. And clients usually prefer living in their o…

Personal Income

2010-02-01T20:38:38+02:00

Personal income is one way of measuring the economic activity in a state. Other measures include unemployment and gross state product. Personal income is considered a comprehensive measure, since it includes: * wages & salaries * small business income * dividends * interest * rental income * government assistance (e.g. Social Security & unemployment insurance payments)

Personal Services

2009-11-02T06:11:02+02:00

The personal services line item provides funding for employees’ salaries and wages, as well as the associated state contribution to the Public Employees' Retirement Association and the state share of federal Medicare taxes and other state funded employee benefits.

Persons with mental illness in the criminal justice system

2009-12-14T09:07:52+02:00

Persons with mental illness who are in the criminal justice system present today's greatest challenge to criminal justice and mental health professionals. Mental illness is an alteration of thought, mood, or behavior, or any combination thereof, that interferes with some aspect of social functioning. According to the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project, the rates of serious mental illness among the people booked into U.S. jails each year are at least three to four times higher than …

PLAN

2010-05-05T23:29:08+02:00

The PLAN test is a 10th grade assessment of students' academic development and career options. It's also a good indicator of how well a student will do on the ACT in 11th grade. ACT, which sells the test to school districts, touts it as a good assessment for both students who are heading for college and students heading directly into the workforce.

Platte River Recovery Program

2009-11-02T08:17:15+02:00

The Platte River Recovery Program is governed by an agreement signed in 1997 by three states (Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska) and the federal government. The point of the program is to help some threatened and endangered species recover: the whooping crane, interior least tern, piping plover, and the pallid sturgeon. Or you could consider the point to be allowing existing and new water projects to take water from the Platte River Basin without violating the endangered species act.

Pre-Collegiate Scholarship Program

2009-12-14T10:01:27+02:00

The Colorado Pre-Collegiate Academic Competitiveness Grant Match (PACG) provides matching grant funds to Colorado high school graduates who receive a Grant Amounts (ACG) with priority going to students who participated in eligible pre-collegiate programs. Awards may not exceed $1,000 per student or the student’s unmet need.

Primary Care Fund

2010-02-14T01:16:59+02:00

The Primary Care Fund pays Community Health Centers and similar clinics for treating Medically Indigent Coloradans. The Fund is supported with 19% of the revenue from the Amendment 35 tobacco tax. Outpatient Care for the Medically Indigent One purpose of Amendment 35 was to make more health care available to people who don't have insurance and can't afford to pay for medical treatment themselves. The Primary Care Fund carries out that purpose.

Principal Development Scholarship Fund

2009-12-14T09:07:53+02:00

The Principal Development Scholarship Fund pays for the Principal Development Scholarship Program. The State Board of Education uses money from the fund to award stipends to principals. Principals use the money to pay for ongoing professional development.

Principal Development Scholarship Program

2009-12-14T09:07:53+02:00

H.B. 06-1001 created the Principal Development Scholarship Program to provide stipends for principals to obtain ongoing professional development (see Section 22-9.5-101 et seq., C.R.S.). The State Board of Education is to award stipends from the Principal Development Scholarship Fund, which consists of any gifts, grants, and donations received for such purpose.

progressive tax

2010-01-05T06:00:04+02:00

A progressive tax increases as the amount being taxes goes up. For instance, the U.S. income tax is progressive since people who earn more pay a higher marginal rate on part of their earnings. The term progressive tax is contrasted with regressive tax and proportional tax.

Property Taxes

2009-05-16T01:24:13+02:00

In Colorado, property taxes mostly support school districts and counties, but they're also collected by some cities and a lot of special districts. Property taxes are essentially a percentage of a property's value, but the calculation is a little more complication. Rather than percent, property tax rates are set in mills, which are thousandths of a dollar. So a typical property tax might be 12 mills.

Public Employees' Retirement Association

2009-12-14T09:07:53+02:00

Each personal services recommendation includes the designated state retirement contribution to the Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) for all eligible employees. Pursuant to Section 24-51-408.5 (6) (a), C.R.S., the contribution rate is adjusted based on any over- or under-funding of the PERA trust funds. For FY 2009-10, the contribution rate is 10.15 percent of base salaries for most state employees. However, the rates for state troopers and judges are 12.85 percent and 13.66 perce…

public_safety_communications_trust_fund

2010-01-20T22:29:01+02:00

The Public Safety Communications Trust Fund pays for the acquisition and maintenance of public safety communication systems for use by departments including but not limited to the departments of public safety, transportation, natural resources, and corrections. It satisfies the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) requirements under the public national safety plan.

Public School Transportation

2009-12-14T09:07:54+02:00

(Article 51 of Title 22, CRS) Pursuant to Section 22-32-113, C.R.S., a school district may provide transportation for students to and from school. However, a school district must provide transportation for students who fall under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as homeless students. In budget year 2007-08, school districts will provide transportation for an estimated 312,000 students from home to school, fr…

Public Utility

2009-12-14T09:07:54+02:00

(3) (a) “Public utility” means, for property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 1987, every sole proprietorship, firm, limited liability company, partnership, association, company, or corporation, and the trustees or receivers thereof, whether elected or appointed, that does business in this state as a railroad company, airline company, electric company, wind energy facility, rural electric company, telephone company, telegraph company, gas company, gas pipeline carrier company, domesti…

Pueblo Reservoir

2009-04-13T07:16:14+02:00

Pueblo Reservoir is about 6 miles West of the City of Pueblo and it can hold nearly 360,000 acre-feet of water from the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. Fountain Valley Conduit The Fountain Valley Conduit begins at Pueblo Dam and ends near Academy Boulevard about 2 miles south of Colorado Springs. The conduit conveys approximately 20,100 acre-feet of project water annually to the communities of Stratmoor Hills, Widefield, Security, and Fountain. The Fountain Valley Conduit is 45 miles long and rang…

Purchase of Services from Computer Center

2009-12-14T09:07:54+02:00

Funds for General Government Computer Center (GGCC) services are included for all departments that use such services. The program resides within the Governor's Office of Information Technology. In prior years, the recommended billing was calculated by applying each department's percentage of actual GGCC use in the most recent actual fiscal year to the Computer Services programs' overhead (Personal Services, centrally appropriated line items such as Short-term Disability insurance, Operating Expe…

Qualified School Construction Bonds

2010-01-16T02:00:48+02:00

Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCBs) let school districts borrow money interest free; instead of interest, bond buyers get tax credit from the federal government. the QSCB program is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Quality Assurance Unit

2009-12-14T10:15:17+02:00

The Quality Assurance Unit makes sure the labs' testing is thorough and accurate. It gets known samples from regulatory agencies, sends them to the labs for testing, then compares the results to what's actually in the sample. It also maintains systems to make sure samples don't get mixed up or lost and that the results of the labs' work is available when people need it.

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Read-to-Achieve Grant Program

2009-12-14T09:07:55+02:00

Senate Bill 00-71 and S.B. 00-124 established the Read-to-Achieve Grant Program. Schools may apply for grants through the program to fund intensive reading programs for second- and third-grade students (including students between the third and fourth-grades) whose literacy and comprehension skills are below grade level. Schools may utilize the funds for in-class support and assistance, one-on-one school day pull-out programs, after school tutoring programs, or summer programs. Schools may reques…

read_to_achieve

2010-03-28T05:44:01+02:00

The Read to Achieve grant program is administered by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) under the direction of the Read to Achieve Board. An 11 member Read to Achieve Board runs the program. It has members from: * the State Department of Education * School districts * the legislature * parents of students who are eligible for Read to Achieve-funded programs

Reading Assistance Grant Program

2009-12-14T09:07:55+02:00

House Bill 06-1004 established the Reading Assistance Grant Program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations that provide and distribute to school districts and eligible facilities accessible educational materials for students who have difficulty achieving the state model content standards, but are not identified as having a disability [see Section 22-88-101 et seq., C.R.S.].

Fund History

2009-12-14T09:07:55+02:00

The Reading Services for the Blind line uses money from the Colorado Disabled Telephone Users Fund to pay for reading services for the blind. The money comes from a fee that's on your phone bill. The fee goes into the Colorado Disabled Telephone Users Fund. Each year the legislature appropriates money out of the fund to pay the state librarian who hires private reading services for the blind.

Reapportionment

2010-04-19T23:24:16+02:00

The Colorado Constitution calls for reapportioning state House and Senate districts “After each federal census of the United States.” Process The Colorado Constitution sets out the process for reapportioning House and Senate districts. Reapportionment Commission An 11-member Reapportionment Commission draws the new map of legislative districts. The legislative, executive and judicial branches of the state's government each appoint members to the commission, in that order. There are rules …

Reappropriated Funds

2009-11-20T01:15:15+02:00

Reappropriated Funds (RF) are used two or more times within state government. For instance, the legislature may appropriate money from the The General Fund to the Dept. of Regulatory Affairs, and the Dept. of Regulatory Affairs could use the money to pay for legal services from the Attorney General. The money would be designated “Reappropriated” when it goes from DORA to the AG.

Records Management System

2009-12-14T09:07:55+02:00

The Records Management System (RMS) allows the Colorado State Patrol to make use of information technology hardware and software architectures to automate business processes associated with accident reports, arrests, citations, investigative case management, stolen vehicles, and vehicle inspections.

Regional Air Quality Council

2009-10-28T04:52:45+02:00

The Regional Air Quality Council (RAQC, pronounced rakk) works with other entities to reduce pollution along the Front Range and remain in compliance with the federal Clean Air Act. The RAQC, in collaboration with the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission and the Air Pollution Control Division of CDPHE, sets out plans to keep Colorado in compliance with federal Clean Air Act standards. It coordinates with local governments and the public.

regressive tax

2010-01-05T06:17:03+02:00

A regressive tax rate gets lower as the amount being taxes gets higher. Regressive taxes on income force people with lower incomes to pay a higher percentage of their incomes in taxes than people with higher incomes. It's contrasted with a progressive tax.

Republican River Compact

2009-11-02T08:46:38+02:00

The Republican River Compact divides up water in the river between Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. The three states agreed to the compact in 1943. . It Started With a Lawsuit In 1998 Kansas sued Nebraska. The suit accused Nebraska of taking too much water from the river, mostly through wells that pump up groundwater that's connected to the visible river. Colorado got dragged into the suit in 2000.

Required Competencies and Examples of Performance Objectives

2010-05-06T07:24:27+02:00

From DPA March of 2008. CORE COMPETENCIES Every classified employee is rated on the following five core competencies. * Communication * Interpersonal Skills * Customer Services * Accountability * Job Knowledge EXAMPLES OF PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES Communication * Sought and considered ideas from others on issues that affected them. * Communicated orally in a well-organized, courteous, and effective manner. * Communicated to provide or exchange information while keeping others …

Retirements

2010-02-26T01:43:28+02:00

The Retirements appropriation covers the anticipated payouts for retiring and terminating employees who have unused accrued annual and sick leave. It's a common-policy-line line, but it's in the budget for the Dept. of Public Health and Environment.

Revisions to Colorado Tax Exemptions and Credits

2010-01-26T08:38:06+02:00

This is the OSPB fact sheet on the Governor's proposal to suspend and end some tax exemptions and credits in order to raise revenue and balance the budget. This information is from a fact sheet OSPB wrote in November of 2009. It does not necessarily reflect bills introduced to carry out the proposals in the 2010 session or the resulting statutes.

S.B. 04-257 Amortization Equalization Disbursement (AED)

2009-12-14T09:07:56+02:00

Pursuant to S.B. 04-257, the State must contribute additional funds to assist in the amortization of the Public Employees' Retirement Association's (PERA) unfunded liability. The current amortization period is infinite. Beginning on January 1, 2006, the State provided an additional 0.5 percent of base salaries to the PERA trust fund. Beginning January 1, 2009, the state AED rate reached 1.8 percent of base salaries. Beginning January 1, 2010, the State will provide an additional 0.4 percent of b…

S.B. 06-235 Supplemental Amortization Equalization Disbursement (SAED)

2009-12-14T09:07:56+02:00

Pursuant to S.B. 06-235, employees must contribute additional funds to assist in the amortization of the Public Employees' Retirement Association's (PERA) unfunded liability. Beginning January 1, 2008, employees began to contribute an additional 0.5 percent of their total payroll to the PERA trust fund. Beginning January 1, 2009, the state SAED rate reached 1.0 percent of base salaries. Beginning January 1, 2010, the State will provide an additional 0.5 percent of base salaries to the PERA trust…

Salary Survey

2009-12-14T09:07:56+02:00

The state's annual Salary Survey determines how much of a raise state employees will get. Our goal is to recruit and keep good employees, so we try to keep our compensation close to what private companies and other governments pay. The salary survey gives us the data we need to make a comparison.

Salary Survey and Senior Executive Service

2009-12-14T09:07:56+02:00

The recommendation does not include appropriations for salary survey increases for FY 2009-10. Salary survey increases for department staff, when provided, are funded through centrally- appropriated line items in the Executive Director's Office of the Department's budget in the year of the award and are incorporated into base funding for each division in the subsequent year. These centralized appropriations were provided for FY 2008-09 but are not recommended for FY 2009-10.

School Accountability Reports

2009-12-14T09:07:57+02:00

Senate Bill 00-186 required the Dept. of Education to establish a state data reporting system, including computer capabilities and procedures, to produce school report cards. The legislature later changed the name to School Accountability Reports (SARs).

School Finance Act

2009-12-14T09:07:57+02:00

Each year the legislature passes a School Finance Act to pay for public schools. Thorough & Uniform The Colorado Constitution says the legislature has to set up a “thorough and uniform” system of free public schools. We don't worry too much about “thorough,” but we almost lost a lawsuit on “uniform,” so we put some effort into that.

School Finance Lawsuits

2010-01-19T07:19:37+02:00

People have sued most states to challenge their funding of public schools. Most of the suits concern provision in state constitutions requiring equity and/or adequacy in school funding. Here's a list of lawsuits: State Supreme Court Decisions For the Plaintiffs * Alabama: Ex Parte James, 713 So. 2d 869 (1997) * Arizona: Roosevelt Elem. Sch. Dist. No. 66 v. Bishop, 179 Ariz. 233, 877 P.2d 806 (1994) * Arkansas: Dupree v.Alma School District No. 30 29, Ark. 340, 651 S.W.2d 90 (1983) * …

School Finance Unit

2009-12-14T09:07:57+02:00

The School Finance Unit is part of the Dept. of Education that handles the School Finance Act. Its duties include: * administering the School Finance Act * helping districts navigate school finance * auditing school districts to make sure they're following the rules of the federal school lunch program * running some programs, including: * the Colorado Preschool Program * the Full-day Kindergarten Program * the Public School Transportation Program * English language…

School for the Deaf and Blind

2009-12-14T10:01:57+02:00

The Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) is a state-funded type 1 agency within the Colorado Department of Education. The school was established for the purpose of providing comprehensive educational services for children who are blind/low vision and/or deaf/hard of hearing birth to age twenty-one. Services are provided directly to students enrolled on the CSDB campus and through outreach activities, which are provided to staff, families and children throughout Colorado. There are f…

School Readiness Quality Improvement Program

2010-03-18T00:09:29+02:00

School-readiness Child Care Subsidization Program was created by House Bill 02-1297 [Section 26-6.5-106, C.R.S.] to improve the quality of certain licensed child care facilities whose enrolled children ultimately attend low-performing neighborhood elementary schools.

Section 8 Housing

2009-12-14T09:07:57+02:00

[Arapahoe Court is public housing in Boulder that qualifies for Section 8 vouchers] Section 8 housing assistance helps people rent private apartments with reasonable rents using a third of their income. The apartment units can be anywhere, but the landlord has to agreed to accept the vouchers and pass a federal Dept. of Housing and Urban Development inspection.

Self-Sufficiency Standard

2009-12-14T09:07:58+02:00

Self-sufficiency standards indicate how much a working family has to earn in order to live in its community without needing any subsidies. They're often developed as an alternative to the Federal Poverty Level, which represents a bare subsistence level of income.

Senior Executive Service

2009-12-14T09:07:58+02:00

The Senior Executive Service is a separate pay class for positions with a high level of management responsibility. It's a level between positions in the state personnel system and those at-will positions appointed by the governor. Salaries can be as much as 25% higher than a position would pay under the state's regular personnel system. But joining the SES is a tradeoff. Employees in the SES can make more money, but they lose some of the job protections of the state personnel system. It giv…

Serious Reportable Events

2009-12-21T06:12:46+02:00

“Serious Reportable Events” (SREs) is a term for preventable injuries in hospitals like amputating the wrong limb, or transfusing the wrong type of blood. SRE's are what the National Quality Forum calls ”Never Events,” because hospitals should never let them happen to patients.

severance tax revenue

2010-02-16T08:49:56+02:00

Colorado gets a significant amount of revenue from the Severance Tax, but it's hard to count on how much. Most severance tax revenue comes from oil and gas, and prices are so volatile that forecasting is difficult. We also allow oil and gas companies a tax credit for local property taxes they pay, and that has a big and variable effect on state revenue.

Severance Tax Trust Fund

2010-02-16T08:53:36+02:00

The Severance Tax Trust Fund receives half of Colorado's severance tax revenue plus any interest it earns on the fund's balance. The money goes to water projects, clean energy, Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) operations and and a lot of other items.

Sex Offender Surcharges

2009-12-14T10:51:56+02:00

Sex Offender Surcharges Class of Offense Surcharge Felony 2 $3,000 Felony 3 $2,000 Felony 4 $1,000 Felony 5 $750 Felony 6 $500 Misdemeanor 1 $400 Misdemeanor 2 $300 Misdemeanor 3 $150 Deferred Judgment ½ adult C.R.S. 18-21-103 (1) (a) Justice, Fees, Cash Funds

Shift Differential

2009-12-14T09:07:58+02:00

This line item appears in each applicable department's Executive Director's Office, with the exception of the Department of Higher Education. Shift differential payments provide higher wages for evening, night, and weekend shifts. In FY 2009-10, shift differential payments for all state employees total approximately $12.0 million, including approximately $6.9 million from the General Fund.

Short-term Disability

2009-12-14T09:07:58+02:00

All state employees are eligible for employer-paid, short-term disability insurance. The recommended amounts are based on 0.155 percent of each employee's base salary. This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office and cannot be expended for any other purpose.

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Skilled Nursing Care

2009-12-14T09:07:58+02:00

Skilled Nursing Care is a specific type of long-term care defined in the Colorado Code of Regulations. It's for clients who need services 24-hours a day and only a licensed nurse or someone being supervised by a licensed nurse can perform the services. The services have to be part of a treatment plan written by a physician.

Skilled Nursing Facility

2009-12-14T09:07:59+02:00

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs -- pronounced sniffs, also called nursing homes) offer long-term care to people who have a chronic illness and can't take care of themselves, or shorter-term care to people recovering from hospital treatment or needing rehabilitation. SNFs can also specialize, for instance in caring for people with Alzheimer's disease. There are more than 200 SNFs in Colorado serving 17,000 people.

Skyline Correctional Center

2009-12-14T09:07:59+02:00

The Skyline Correctional Center holds 249 inmates who are within 60 months of their parole eligibility date. It's a Level I facility that houses inmates who work for Colorado Correctional Industries. SCC opened in 1956 with 60 Beds. SCC is part of DOCs East Canon Complex.

Small Attendance Centers

2009-12-14T09:07:59+02:00

Small Attendance Center Aid (Article 54 of Title 22, CRS) Pursuant to Section 22-54-122, C.R.S., school districts that operate a school with fewer than 200 pupils that is located twenty or more miles from any similar school in the same district are eligible to receive additional state funding to offset the unique costs associated with operating such schools. In budget year 2007-08, it is estimated that roughly 897 pupils in Colorado will attend local schools each with less than a total of 200 pu…

Special Education

2009-12-14T09:07:59+02:00

The State Exceptional Children's Act (ECEA) sets specific rules school districts have to follow in offering special education services. The Act recognizes the need to provide educational opportunities to all children, and the benefits of providing a continuum of services in the least restrictive environment.

Special Education - Children with Disabilities

2009-12-14T09:08:00+02:00

The State Exceptional Children's Education Act (ECEA) outlines administrative unit (school districts and boards of cooperative educational services) responsibilities for providing Special Education Programs for Children with Disabilities. The Act recognizes the need to provide educational opportunities to all children, and the benefits of providing a continuum of services in the least restrictive environment.

Species Conservation Trust Fund

2010-04-19T20:07:01+02:00

The Native Species Conservation Trust Fund (SCTF) supports efforts to conserve native species listed as threatened or endangered under state or federal law, species that are candidates for the lists and species that are likely to become candidates for the lists.

Encyclorado

2012-03-17T10:26:31+02:00

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State Assessed Companies

2009-12-14T09:08:08+02:00

State assessed companies have substantial amounts of property in multiple counties, so the state Division of Property Taxation sets their value for property tax purposes, then apportions that value to the counties. The State Assessed section of the Division of Property Taxation]] sets the value of the companies as of the last day of the previous calendar year. In law, the state assessed companies are defined as public utilities.

State Board of Education

2010-03-09T22:59:15+02:00

State Board of Education The Colorado Constitution charges the State Board of Education with the “general supervision” of Colorado's public schools. By law the board has to meet once each quarter, but it generally meets monthly. Board Members The board has seven members elected by congressional district. That means the number of members can change as Colorado gains (or loses) seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Individuals are elected on a partisan basis to serve six-year terms…

State Board of Equalization

2009-12-14T09:08:09+02:00

The State Board of Equalization appoints the State Property Tax Administrator}} and supervises the administration of property taxation laws by local county assessors. The Board meets at least once a year to * review county assessors' valuations of both [[real property and personal property.

State Board of Health

2009-12-14T09:08:09+02:00

The Colorado State Board of Health oversees programs and sets rules that reflect public health laws in Colorado. The board's main duties are to: * adopt or revise standards, rules and regulations to administer the public health laws of the state * determine general policies to be followed in administering and enforcing the public health laws, standards, rules and regulations * act in an advisory capacity to the executive director of the department on matters pertaining to public health …

State Board of Human Services

2009-12-14T09:08:09+02:00

The State Board of Human Services promulgates rules for program areas in the Colorado Department of Human Services. The State Board holds public rule-making hearings in compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act, Section 24-4-101, C.R.S., et seq. These hearings are usually scheduled for the first Friday of each month.

State Children's Health Insurance Program

2009-12-14T09:08:09+02:00

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is the old name for what's now called simply Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

State Education Fund

2009-12-14T09:08:09+02:00

Amendment 23 to the Colorado Constitution created the State Education Fund to help pay for increasing the amount of money we spend on schools. We can tap into the fund to help pay the cost of operating schools or to try new ways of improving education.

State Employee Compensation

2009-12-14T09:08:10+02:00

State law defines Total Compensation for state employees. State Salaries The state's payroll is more than a billion dollars a year (FY 2008-09), not including benefits like group insurance (Health, Life, and Dental) or retirement. Budget, State Employees

State Fair Events Center Debt

2009-12-14T09:08:10+02:00

House Bill 08-1399, which reallocated unclaimed property moneys credited to the Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund, has not been implemented because the debt on the State Fair Events Center has not been fully repaid. * House Bill 08-1399 changed the allocation of unclaimed property moneys credited to the Colorado Travel and Tourism Promotion Fund from being fully allocated to the State Fair to pay off debt to a new allocation including 65 percent to various agriculture programs, 25% t…

State Implementation Plans

2009-12-14T10:26:08+02:00

* 1993 PM-10 Attainment Plan * 1994 Carbon Monoxide Attainment Plan * 1996 Ozone Maintenance Plan * 2000 Carbon Monoxide Attainment Plan * 2001 Revised Ozone Maintenance Plan * 2001 PM-10 Maintenance Plan * 2004 EAC Ozone Action Plan * * Environment, Air Pollution

State Lottery Division

2009-12-16T01:41:16+02:00

The State Lottery Division is responsible for operations of the State Lottery, which includes scratch games and jackpot games, which includes Cash 5, Lotto, and the multi-state PowerBall games. Total Lottery sales and distributions for the last five years are shown in the table below.

State Ombudsman

2010-02-19T00:51:53+02:00

The state contracts with the Legal Center for Persons with Disabilities and Older Persons to serve as the State Ombudsman for Colorado. Staffing for this program includes: * one State Long-Term Care Ombudsman * a part-time assistant * a part-time legal developer * 17 paid local ombudsmen * 90 volunteer ombudsmen

Colorado State Patrol Academy

2010-03-09T00:26:15+02:00

[Cadets on the State Patrol Academy shooting range.] The Colorado State Patrol Academy trains people to serve as patrol officers, communications officers and as civilian employees of CSP. Patrol Officers The most rigorous training is for becoming a patrol officer. It requires 22 weeks at the academy and another 10 weeks of field training. Graduates are certified as Level I Peace Officers.

State Public School Fund

2009-12-14T09:08:10+02:00

The State Public School Fund (SPSF) is the smallest source of revenue available for public school finance. The SPSF currently receives revenues from three primary sources: * Federal Mineral Lease Revenues. A portion of the federal funds received by the State for sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of federal lands within the state are credited to the SPSF. These revenues, called “federal mineral lease revenues”, are primarily derived from coal, gas,

Severance Tax

2010-02-16T08:46:55+02:00

The severance tax is paid by companies that extract and sell Colorado's nonrenewable natural resources, like oil, natural gas, oil shale, coal and gold. The amount of tax is based on either the amount of money they earn from selling the mineral or the amount of mineral they extract. The amount of severance tax revenue the state gets depends on how much companies extract and how much money they make selling the mineral.

State Trust Lands

2010-01-16T02:44:38+02:00

Colorado's State Trust Lands are 3 million acres the federal government gave us when we became a state to help pay for “common schools.” The Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners (in the Dept. of Natural Resources) manages the land. Historically it leased most of the land for grazing, farming, mining and oil and gas production. It also leases 400,000 to the Division of Wildlife for hunting, fishing and recreation. The board has also developed some of the land as commercial property.

Statewide Indirect Cost Allocation Plan

2010-03-12T02:23:23+02:00

The statewide indirect cost recovery allows the State to collect dollars from federally-funded and cash-funded programs to offset the State's costs for providing certain services for which programs are not directly billed. For example, the Department manages the state personnel system, and the State incurs a cost for providing this service to programs supported by Cash Funds and [[federal funds. The indirect cost recoveries are used to offset General Fund in the Department's budget.

Statewide Information Technology Staff Consolidation

2009-12-14T09:08:10+02:00

In May of 2007, the Governor issued Executive Order D 016 067 to begin centralizing the management of state agency information technology resources in OIT in an effort to address infrastructure, purchasing, project planning and delivery, asset management, and strategic leadership needs. During the 2008 legislative session, the General Assembly passed and the Governor signed S.B. 08-155. The legislation consolidated the responsibility for information technology oversight of most of the state's ex…

Statewide Transportation Improvement Program

2009-12-14T09:08:10+02:00

The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) lists funded projects that will be started within six years. They move to the STIP from the long-range Regional Transportation Plans and Statewide Transportation Plan. CDOT works with Transportation Planning Regions (TPRs), the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to decide which projects move to the STIP.

The Statutory Reserve

2009-12-14T09:08:11+02:00

Colorado's statutory reserve requires the state to set aside 4% of its The General Fund spending in case of an economic emergency. The statutory reserve is separate from the The TABOR Reserve. Using the Reserve The reserve kicks in automatically when tax revenue dwindles to the point where it can't cover appropriations. That, however, triggers actions to avoid a deficit.

Streamlined Sales and Use Tax

2009-12-24T01:37:30+02:00

The Streamlined Sales and Use Tax (SSUT) is a system states can adopt to makes their sales and use taxes simpler, fairer and cheaper to administer. The Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement The tax is outlined in the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, which has been adopted by 23 states and is under consideration in 10 others.

Substitute Water Supply Plans

2009-12-14T09:08:11+02:00

Substitute Water Supply Plans were supposed to temporarily let people pump water out of priority by proving to the state engineer that the well water was being replaced. The engineer had to approve them each year. A series of engineers did just that, re-approving 4000 of the plans each year for 25 years.

Summer School Grant Program

2009-12-14T09:08:11+02:00

House Bill 06-1375 included a provision that recreated and reenacted this program, which was originally established through S.B. 01- 129 (see Section 22-7-801 et seq., C.R.S.). This Summer School Grant Program provides grants for districts to operate summer school programs for students entering the 4th through 8th grades who received an unsatisfactory score on the reading, writing, or math portion of the Colorado student assessment program in the preceding academic year.

Supplier Database

2010-03-12T00:35:56+02:00

The Supplier Database lists the companies have registered to get information on opportunities to do business with the state. It's handled with a computer system called the Bids Information and Distribution System (BIDS). It notifies vendors when a state agency is requesting proposals (RFPs) or bids for goods or services. It has list of open bids and other information to help businesses get state contracts.

TABOR in the Colorado Constitution

2009-12-14T09:08:11+02:00

Section 20. The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. (1) General provisions. This section takes effect December 31, 1992 or as stated. Its preferred interpretation shall reasonably restrain most the growth of government. All provisions are self-executing and severable and supersede conflicting state constitutional, state statutory, charter, or other state or local provisions. Other limits on district revenue, spending, and debt may be weakened only by future voter approval. Individual or class action e…

The TABOR Reserve

2010-03-23T19:09:02+02:00

The TABOR reserve, also called the Constitutional reserve, requires the state to set aside an amount equal to 3% of it's annual revenue to spend in an emergency. It's required by TABOR, which is in Article X of the state constitution. TABOR says the state can only spend this reserve on “declared emergencies,” and specifically excludes spending it on economic problems like a loss of revenue or salary increases. In an economic emergency, the state relies on it's The Statutory Reserve.

TANF Diversion

2010-01-15T19:04:21+02:00

Diversion is a lump sum payment of one-month, two-months, or a maximum of three months of the Family Size Allowance (FSA), given to a family that qualifies for TANF. Diversion is intended to meet the financial needs of a family because of a loss of job or other reduction in earnings. The family must verify that income will be received by the end of the Diversion period so that the family will not need to apply for ongoing TANF benefits.

TANF Maintenance-of-Effort

2009-12-14T09:08:12+02:00

The federal government requires states to meet the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Maintenance of Effort (MOE) so the money we get from Washington adds to our services for needy families rather than replacing existing state spending. The money has to help low-income families with children. It can be part of the regular TANF cash assistance, or not.

TANF surplus

2010-01-15T07:29:26+02:00

TANF surpluses have built up as the need to pay for cash assistance has declined. TANF is a block grant from the federal government to states. Federal rules require recipients to get jobs and limit the amount of assistance people can get in their lifetimes. After the first few years, the amount of money states were getting was more than they needed to spend on assistance.

Taxation Business Group

2009-12-16T00:27:33+02:00

The Taxation Business Group administers business taxes; income taxes; severance taxes; estate and transfer taxes; special taxes, including gasoline, special fuel, aviation fuel, cigarette, tobacco, and liquor excise taxes; public utility assessments; and food service licensing fees.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

2009-12-14T09:08:12+02:00

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) gives money and other support to poor families so they can survive while learning skills, getting jobs and becoming self-sufficient. It replaced the U.S. welfare system in 1996. Federal Money, State Work The federal government pays for TANF, but states do the actual work. Each state gets a block grant from the federal government; it has to use the money design and carry out a program to make needy families self-sufficient.

Term Limits

2009-12-14T09:08:12+02:00

The Colorado Constitution limits the amount of time people can serve in state and local elected offices. State Legislature * Colorado Senate: 2 terms/8 years * Colorado House: 4 terms/8 years State Executives These apply to the: * Governor * Lieutenant Governor * Secretary of State * State Treasurer * Attorney General

Title V, Part C (Charter School Program)

2009-12-14T09:08:12+02:00

In May 2007 Colorado received a new three-year grant from the federal Charter School Grant Program (2007-2010). The grant program provides funding to cover unique startup and implementation needs of new charter schools or schools converting to charter status.

Tobacco Settlement

2010-02-03T20:46:11+02:00

“This lawsuit is based on a simple notion: you caused the health crisis; you pay for it.” That's what Mississippi's Attorney General, Mike Moore, said back in 1994 as he filed a lawsuit that would eventually lead to big tobacco companies paying states hundreds of billions of dollars. That's right: hundreds of billions of dollars. It's one of the biggest lawsuit settlements in history and it was a rare defeat for Big Tobacco.

Tobacco Settlement Programs

2010-02-03T20:47:45+02:00

In Colorado, we've used money from the Tobacco Settlement to pay for various programs. Here's a general overview of how Colorado spends its tobacco settlement money: The money is distributed in two tiers. Tier 1 Tier 1 Programs get either a fixed amount of money or a percent of the total (usually within minimum and maximum amounts).

Tobacco Tax Cash Fund

2009-12-14T09:08:13+02:00

On Nov. 2, 2004 voters in Colorado passed Amendment 35 to the state constitution which increased the tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products to pay for health programs. Increased the tax on cigarettes by 64 cents to a total of 84 cents per pack. Increased the tax on other tobacco products, like chewing tobacco and cigars, by 20%.

Total Compensation

2009-12-14T09:08:13+02:00

By law, total compensation for state employees has to include at least: * salary * group benefit plans (health, life, and dental insurance) * retirement benefits * performance awards * incentives * premium pay practices * leave The state uses an annual Salary Survey to compare compensation for state employees to compensation for employees of other governments, organizations and companies.

Federal Trade Act

2010-02-19T23:02:13+02:00

Federal Trade Act Adjustment funds help workers who lose their jobs due to foreign trade. They can get two types of help: * extended Unemployment Insurance benefits * supplemental salary payments Dept. of Labor and Employment, Federal

Transfer to Department of Education for Public School Health Services Administration

2009-12-14T09:08:13+02:00

In 2004, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services performed an audit on the certification of public expenditures and a review of Colorado’s Public School Health Services Program intended to “monitor Colorado’s compliance with federal statute, regulations, and policy”. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ report requested that the State complete an annual reconciliation of interim payments reported on the certifications of public expenditures to actual incurred expenditures at th…

Transfer to Department of Public Health and Environment Facility for Survey and Certification

2009-12-14T09:08:13+02:00

The Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) transfers money from its budget to the Dept. of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to pay for the supervision of some health care facilities. CDPHE surveys and certifies: * nursing facilities * hospices * home health agencies * Home and Community Based Services agencies (including Alternative Care Facilities)

Transfer to Department of Regulatory Agencies for Nurse Aide Certification

2009-12-14T09:08:14+02:00

This line in the Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) budget transfers money to pay for certifying nurse aides. The state requires certification of nurse aides who work with Medicaid or Medicare patients in any medical facility. A three-way interagency agreement between HCPF, the Dept. of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) and the Dept. of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) divides responsibility for the Nurse Aide Certification program.

Transfer to Department of Regulatory Agencies for Reviews

2009-12-14T09:08:14+02:00

DEPARTMENT OF REGULATORY AGENCIES IN-HOME SUPPORT REVIEW In October 2004, the Department incorporated a new method of service under the Elderly, Blind and Disabled and Children’s Home and Community Based Services waivers to allow Medicaid clients, who are eligible for In-Home Support Services to direct, select and train their own attendant care. In-Home Support Services includes health maintenance activities, support for activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living, pers…

Transportation

2009-12-14T09:08:14+02:00

General Fund Financing of Transportation In addition to money in the Highway Users Tax Fund the legislature as often spent money from the state's General Fund on transportation. In 1997 the legislature passed Senate Bill 1 which diverts General Fund into the HUTF and in 2002 it passed HB 1310 which puts more General Fund money into highways. Those have stayed in statute and add money to transportation spending fairly regularly.

Transportation Conformity

2009-12-14T10:22:16+02:00

States and local governments fight like crazy to get federal money for transportation projects. In nonattainment areas U.S. Department of Transportation “cannot fund, authorize, or approve Federal actions to support” any transportation projects that could increase pollution. Transportation conformity started with the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act.

Transportation Demand Management

2009-12-14T09:08:14+02:00

DRCOG Regional Travel Demand Management Strategic Plan Adequate funding does not exist for needed capacity improvements for our roadway and transit systems. The region must pursue ways to lessen demand for single-occupant vehicle (SOV) travel if it is to maintain a functional transportation system.

Transportation Legislation Review Committee

2009-12-14T09:08:14+02:00

The Transportation Legislation Review Committee (TLRC) is a permanent, joint House and Senate interim committee that gives guidance to the Colorado Dept. of Transportation (CDOT) and prepares bills on transportation issues. The committee is directed to review any phase of operations for the CDOT, including:

Transportion, processing and manufacturing

2010-01-07T23:09:54+02:00

Colorado law lets oil and gas companies deduct some of their costs from their gross revenue before calculating the oil and gas severance tax. The costs they can deduct are for: * transportation * processing * manufacturing Transportation Companies can deduct the cost of transporting the oil and gas from the well to where they can sell it. (In technical terms, its from where they can first measure the amount of oil and gas to the place where they can determine its value).

tuberculosis_control_and_treatment

2010-02-26T02:13:45+02:00

The Dept. of Public Health and Environment manages statewide surveillance and treatment of tuberculosis. It's required by state law. The program relies on counties to investigate suspected cases of tuberculosis. The The General Fund pays for just under half of the program. The rest comes from the federal government.

Type 1 Agency

2009-12-14T09:08:15+02:00

A type 1 agency exercises its prescribed powers and duties independently of the head of the department, including the ability to make rules. Statute on Type 1 Agencies Under this article, a type 1 transfer means the transferring intact of an existing department, institution, or other agency, or part thereof, to a principal department established by this article. When any department, institution, or other agency, or part thereof, is transferred to a principal department under a type 1 transfer…

Type 1 Body

2009-12-14T09:08:15+02:00

In Colorado, Type 1 bodies have the authority to make rules.

Unclaimed Property

2010-02-16T06:48:27+02:00

Property that is not claimed by the owner within five years is generally considered abandoned under Colorado law and has to be turned over to the State Treasurer. In most cases, the Treasuer sells the property and holds onto the proceeds in case the owner claims it.

Unclaimed Property Tourism Promotion Trust Fund

2010-02-16T07:01:52+02:00

The Unclaimed Property Tourism Promotion Trust Fund holds money from the sale of securities that become Unclaimed Property that the state sells. Fund Principal The State Treasurer holds onto the principal of the fund in case the original owners make a claim.

Unclaimed Property Trust Fund

2010-02-16T06:51:17+02:00

The Unclaimed Property Trust Fund holds the proceeds from the sale of Unclaimed Property by the State of Colorado. At one time all of the principal and interest from the fund was supposed to stay in the fund unless it was paid out to people who owned the unclaimed property or needed to manage the fund.

Update on the Internet Self Service Project

2009-12-16T00:20:51+02:00

A total of ten internet applications are being built to make basic claimant and employer functions available on the internet. A total of $6.0 million cash funds has been appropriated for the capital construction portion and $670,000 and 2.5 FTE for the operation portion of this project. The project has been delayed eight months due to the development and deployment of the Fast Track applications, and is scheduled to be completed by August 2011.

Upper Payment Limit

2009-12-14T09:08:15+02:00

The Upper Payment Limit is the maximum amount Medicaid can reimburse a provider and still receive the federal match rate (or federal financial participation). The Upper Payment Limit is calculated for Inpatient Hospital and Outpatient Hospital, amongst others. The Upper Payment Limits are calculated by the Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing such that each must be a reasonable estimate of the amount Medicare would reimburse providers for providing Medicaid services.

Utilities

2009-12-14T09:08:15+02:00

In general, departments pay for utility costs from either the base Operating Expenses appropriation or a separate utilities line item, which typically supports the cost of maintaining a state-owned facility. The recommendation for FY 2009-10 is dependent upon the specific circumstances regarding utilities in each department.

Vehicle Emissions

2010-02-26T00:36:48+02:00

The Vehicle Emissions unit in the Organization of DOR monitors and inspects the emission stations that test vehicles for the Automobile Inspection and Readjustment Program (AIR program). The unit goal is to make sure the stations meet standards and to prevent fraud.

Vehicle Lease Payments

2009-12-14T09:08:15+02:00

This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office, with a few exceptions. Motor vehicles can only be purchased through the Fleet Management Program in the Department of Personnel and Administration pursuant to Section 24-30-1117, C.R.S. The recommendation is based on the amount necessary for each department to make vehicle lease payments to the Fleet Management Program, which charges lease rates that vary by vehicle model and type. The lease payments are sufficient to recov…

Vocational Education

2009-12-14T09:08:16+02:00

(Article 8 of Title 23, CRS) Roughly 90% of Colorado school districts provide career and technical educational (CTE) opportunities to their students. Programs are designed to provide students with occupational skills and related knowledge to meet identified needs of business and industry. While these offerings are provided through local school districts, administration of state funding for these programs as well as program approvals and monitoring, research, and professional development are prov…

waste_tire_cash_funds

2010-01-20T23:15:28+02:00

The Waste Tire Cash Funds include the Waste Tire Recycling Development Cash Fund and the Waste Tire Clean-Up Fund. Each fund consists of a portion ($0.50 and $0.25 respectively)) of the revenue generated from the $1.50 fee collected on the sale of new tires. Moneys deposited in the funds are used to encourage the disposal, recycling or reuse of illegally dumped tires and to encourage the recycling of reuse and waste tires.

Waste Tire Program

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waste_tire_recycling_development_cash_fund

2010-01-20T22:53:47+02:00

This fund consists of a portion ($0.50) of the revenue generated from the $1.50 fee collected on the sale of new tires. Moneys deposited in the fund are used to encourage the disposal, recycle or reuse of illegally dumped tires and to encourage the recycling of reuse and waste tires.

Witness Protection Fund

2010-03-08T22:56:39+02:00

This line item provides funding for General Fund payments into the Witness Protection Fund for reimbursement of witness protection costs incurred by district attorneys and the Attorney General. The Witness Protection Program and Witness Protection Fund were created by S.B. 95-031 to provide for the security and protection of a witness in a criminal trial or proceeding. Upon the approval of the Witness Protection Board, the Department expends dollars from the Witness Protection Fund to pay distr…

Workers' Compensation

2009-12-14T09:08:16+02:00

This line item appears in each department's Executive Director's Office. The recommendation represents each department's share of the statewide cost of workers' compensation coverage, based on a three-year average loss history as verified by an independent actuarial firm. This self-insured program is administered by Pinnacol Assurance (formerly Colorado Compensation Insurance Authority) and covers employees in all departments (except the University of Colorado and the Colorado State University, …