The State’s Joint Budget Committee, tasked with cutting $3.3 billion from Colorado’s yearly budget, submitted a proposal this week that would cut K … Per Section 2-3-201 of the Colorado Revised Statutes members of the joint budget committee include the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and one member of the majority and minority parties. Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee (JBC) has been making budget cuts since they reconvened on May 4, trying to make up for the $3.3 billion General Fund shortfall due to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. New members of Colorado’s powerful Joint Budget Committee met for the first time Nov. 11, marking the start to what’s sure to be an especially arduous and complex process: designing the state budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Members of the public are invited — today — to comment before the Colorado Legislature’s most powerful committee about the most important annual bill. Hearing Responses - 01/07/2021 The Joint Budget Committee … The hearing is scheduled to run until 5 p.m. At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the six-member Joint Budget Committee will hear remote public testimony on Colorado’s state budget, including ideas for fiscal year 2020-2021 stimulus proposals and FY 2021-2022 budget requests. The Colorado Legislature's Joint Budget Committee has approved $4 million to create a state fund that would provide grants, low-interest loans and technical assistance to … This report is intended to provide the members of the Joint Budget Committee of the Colorado General Assembly with information on a review of the Parole oard’s Fiscal Year 2016 operations, projects/activities, and performance measures. The committee members will be chosen in the same manor as their are chosen in their respective houses. The lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee will hear public testimony Monday on the spending bill for the next fiscal year. Colorado’s bipartisan Joint Budget Committee has already put the brakes on one of the things Gov. Hearing held on January 7, 2021. Here’s your chance to tell Colorado lawmakers how to spend billions of dollars in the state budget. Although the 2021 legislative session is in recess through Feb. 16, lawmakers are still holding meetings of the powerful Joint Budget Committee with the goal of getting a final budget … The budget cuts are unprecedented and have impacted every department of state government. Published on Jan 31, 2020 4:32AM MST Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published The Budget Committee is a joint standing committee of the Colorado General Assembly.. Additionally, appended to this This article by Newsline staff first appeared on Colorado Newsline on January 26, 2021.