Legislative committees are a very important part of Colorado's legislative process.  At a legislative committee hearing, citizens have an opportunity to express their views and have them incorporated into the official legislative record.  In Colorado, every bill receives a public hearing by one...

An overview memo of the rules and procedures to be followed by the Senate Committee on Education.

This memorandum provides an overview of programs that are designed to provide a boost to Colorado's economy, including incentivizing businesses to locate in Colorado, expand their Colorado-based workforce, or otherwise grow their Colorado business operations.  This memorandum does not include...

This memorandum provides an overview of housing assistance programs and resources offered by federal, state, and local governments and nonprofit agencies throughout Colorado during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

This memo provides an overview of data on income inequality in Colorado and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by income and other demographic characteristics.  This memo uses new sources of publicly available high-frequency data from the U.S. Census Bureau and private companies to...

The Supplemental Narrative is prepared by the staff to explain proposed adjustments to prior year appropriations recommended by the JBC to the rest of the General Assembly.  This narrative describes all of the proposed budget changes statewide, by department, and by program, and provides...

This memorandum provides a summary of leading economic indicators to inform the General Assembly of the current state of the Colorado and U.S. economies.  Available data through December suggest that the pace of recovery remained subdued or even reversed course in recent months as coronavirus...