Second Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 12-0330.01 Ed DeCecco x4216     HOUSE BILL 12-1255
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Baumgardner,  Acree, Becker, Brown, Conti, Ferrandino, Holbert, Joshi, Kerr J., Looper,
 McNulty, Murray, Priola, Scott
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Appropriations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning ending the continuous appropriation of state
            moneys.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            Beginning on July 1, 2012, the bill ends all continuous
       appropriations from the general fund or any cash fund to any state agency.
       The general assembly is required to annually appropriate the moneys that
       were previously continuously appropriated, and it is prohibited from
       continuously appropriating moneys to a state agency in the future.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 24-75-114 as
       follows:
            24-75-114. Continuous appropriation - prohibition -
       definitions. (1)  As used in this section, unless the context
       otherwise requires, "state agency" means any department,
       commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution of
       higher education, agency, or other governmental unit of the
       executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government.
            (2)  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
       contrary, beginning July 1, 2012, no moneys in a cash fund or the
       general fund are continuously appropriated to a state agency.
       This subsection (2) prevails over any prior inconsistent provision
       of law that continuously appropriates moneys to a state
       agency.
            (3)  Beginning July 1, 2012, if a continuous appropriation to
       a state agency no longer applies because of subsection (2) of this
       section, the general assembly shall annually appropriate
       moneys to the state agency for the same purpose for which the
       moneys had been continuously appropriated.
            (4)  The general assembly shall not continuously
       appropriate moneys to a state agency for any state fiscal year
       beginning on or after July 1, 2012.
            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.