SENATE Amended 2nd Reading April 30, 2010Second Regular Session Sixty-seventh General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO ENGROSSED This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted on Second Reading in the House of Introduction LLS NO. 10-0710.01 Esther van Mourik SENATE BILL 10-029 SENATE SPONSORSHIP Penry, HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Curry, Senate Committees House Committees State, Veterans & Military Affairs Appropriations A BILL FOR AN ACT Concerning the creation of efficiencies in governmental entities that provide services to the people of the state. Bill Summary (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.) The bill creates efficiencies and cost savings in state and local government by: Eliminating all duties of the office of the executive director of the department of local affairs and directing those duties and appropriations to the lieutenant governor; Implementing a 2-year statewide hiring freeze that will require the governor or his or her designee to sign off on all new hires. All new hires must meet the test of being critical to protecting the life, health, or safety of Colorado residents. The governor shall provide the general assembly a monthly report of each new hire made in that month. Eliminating all bonuses paid to any state employee for 2 years; Reducing the personnel budget of the governor's office, the executive directors' offices, and the directors of each principal department's offices to 2005-06 fiscal year levels; Reducing by 3% the number of all full-time equivalent state employees paid in whole or in part with general fund dollars within 5 years; Requiring the governor to report in writing to the general assembly by April 1, 2010, regarding the consolidation of existing boards and commissions; Authorizing the governor to repeal the Colorado commission on higher education and to direct any necessary responsibilities and appropriations to the lieutenant governor; Requiring the governor to report in writing to the general assembly by April 1, 2010, regarding which agencies and departments perform similar or redundant functions and should be consolidated; Limiting the governor's energy office to spending no more than 10% of its total budget on personnel; Requiring that all executive branch expenditures on professional organization dues and memberships be made from gifts, grants, or donations and not from any general fund or cash fund appropriation, except from cash funds established for the purpose of receiving gifts, grants, and donations; Requiring the state school board to strongly encourage school districts to create boards of cooperative services where feasible for the purpose of enabling 2 or more school districts to cooperate in furnishing services authorized by law and for consolidating central administrative services; Requiring that all actions performed by an existing or newly created board of cooperative services that result in cost savings to the member school districts, as compared to the cost of the school districts performing the same actions individually, to be calculated, and requiring each member school district to remit to the state general fund an amount equal to 50% of the savings realized by the member school district. However, such amount shall not exceed the amount the member school district received as its state share of total program funding for the applicable budget year. Requiring the governor to reduce by 10% the pay of all full-time equivalent state employees earning $125,000 or more annually, except employees of state institutions of higher education; Requiring the controller to transfer from the general fund to the newly created general fund overflow reserve fund an amount that he or she calculates to be the equivalent of the total amount of general fund moneys appropriated in all bills that are vetoed by the governor, including any general fund line item appropriation in the general appropriation act that is line-item vetoed by the governor; Removing the requirement that motor vehicles have a front license plate. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. 24-75-201.1 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read: 24-75-201.1. Restriction on state appropriations - legislative declaration - definitions. (1) (f) (I) On September 1, 2010, and each September 1 thereafter, at the governor's discretion the state controller shall calculate an amount equal to any general fund surplus in excess of the amount of the unrestricted general fund year-end balances required to be retained as a reserve as specified in paragraph (d) of this subsection (1). (II) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, at the governor's discretion, for the state fiscal year commencing July 1, 2012, and each state fiscal year thereafter, an amount up to the amount calculated by the state controller at the governor's discretion for the prior state fiscal year as specified in subparagraph (I) of this paragraph (f) shall be added to the amount of the unrestricted general fund year-end balances required to be retained as a reserve as specified in paragraph (d) of this subsection (1) for such state fiscal year and all future state fiscal years. SECTION 2. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.