Direct Transfers for Colorado Department of Labor & Employment School-to-Work Programs

      Joint Budget Committee. Currently, a school district (district) may request that the department of education pay the state's share of the district's total program for the budget year in 12 monthly payments. A district may further direct, by written instruction to the state board of education (board), that a specified portion of its monthly payment be paid instead to the department of labor and employment to cover the district's costs for participation in school-to-work alliance programs. The board is required to certify to the state treasurer on a monthly basis the amount payable to each district and the amount, if any, to be transferred directly to the department of labor and employment instead of paid to the district.

     The bill clarifies that the amount of money transferred from the state public school fund directly to the department of labor and employment for school-to-work alliance program costs instead of paid to a district is not state fiscal year spending for purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution.


(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)