Title Bill ID Year Branch Body
HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE SB 200 2011 Senate
SB 200, the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange Act, is sponsored by Senator Boyd. It is a uniquely Colorado solution that will help facilitate one-stop shopping for health insurance for more than 350,000 Colorado families and businesses. Here are answers...
ELIMINATE PERA’S UNFUNDED LIABILITY SB 1 2010 Senate

The net assets of the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) decreased from $41.4 billion as of December 31, 2007, to $30.9 billion as of July 31, 2009. Thus, there is a likelihood of the funds becoming insolvent within the next 30 years. Failure to take...

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM PLANNING AND FUNDING SB 108 2009 Senate

SB 108 is commonly known as FASTER (Funding Advancement for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery). The bill is a comprehensive job creation and transportation bill. It makes changes to how Colorado finances and administers transportation improvements....

NONDISCRIMINATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION SB 170 2009 Senate

This bill was entirely rewritten in the Senate Education Committee, and I am addressing only the revised version here.

 

The bill allows students whose parents are not legal citizens to be...

FLEXIBILITY TO USE STATE REVENUES SB 228 2009 Senate

SB 228 provides more money for the General Fund by eliminating the statutory Arveschoug-Bird (AB) 6% provision.  The AB provision, named for the Representative and Senator, respectively, who sponsored it as a bill in 1991, allows the General Fund to...