SENATE Final Reading January 24, 2012Second Regular Session Sixty-eighth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO ENGROSSED LLS NO. R12-0072.02 Ed DeCecco x4216 SJR12-004 SENATE SPONSORSHIP Johnston, HOUSE SPONSORSHIP DelGrosso, Senate Committees House Committees Finance SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 12-004 Concerning the certification by the general assembly of its estimate of state general fund revenues for the 2012-13 fiscal year. WHEREAS, The general assembly is required by section 24-75-201.3, Colorado Revised Statutes, to make an annual certification of its estimate of general fund revenues for the next fiscal year to the controller; and WHEREAS, If appropriate statutes are amended, additional general fund revenues could be realized; and WHEREAS, The estimate of general fund revenues certified in this Joint Resolution does not include the balance carried forward from the 2011-12 fiscal year; and WHEREAS, The revenue estimate made pursuant to this Joint Resolution is made for the purpose of providing direction and guidance to the joint budget committee in the preparation of the 2012-13 general appropriation act and does not affect the ability of the general assembly to make spending decisions in the general appropriation act; and WHEREAS, The revenue estimate made pursuant to this Joint Resolution may be adjusted if additional relevant information is received by the general assembly after the adoption thereof; and WHEREAS, For purposes of section 39 of article V of the state constitution, this Joint Resolution relates solely to the transaction of business of the two houses of the general assembly; now, therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein: That, in accordance with section 24-75-201.3, Colorado Revised Statutes, the general assembly hereby certifies to the controller of the state of Colorado that the estimate of gross general fund revenues for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, is $7,456.3 million.