Colorado Imagination Library Program

Joint Budget Committee. Current law requires the state librarian in the department of education to oversee the Colorado imagination library program (program) and to contract with a Colorado nonprofit organization (contractor) to operate the program. The bill relocates the program to the department of early childhood (department).

Effective June 30, 2024, the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations concerning the program are transferred to the department. The bill transfers the contractual obligations with the contractor to the department.

Before the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations concerning the program are transferred to the department on June 30, 2024, the department may enter into an interagency agreement with the department of education for the administration of the program.

The bill authorizes the contractor to enter into contracts with book vendors or publishers to provide additional age-appropriate, high-quality books to children enrolled in the program at no cost to families.

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