State-Level Data for Colorado Works Program

No later than January 1, 2026 October 1, 2025, the bill requires the department of human services (state department), in consultation with the works allocation committee, to:

• Develop a standardized process for each county to collect and report to the state department on a monthly basis certain information about the Colorado works program;
• Develop recommendations that include a menu of standardized outcome measures for third-party contracted services and required levels of evidence for third-party contracted services funded with Colorado's temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) allocation; and
• Submit a report to the joint budget committee (JBC) that includes a description of the standardized process and recommendations.

Beginning July 1, 2026 January 1, 2026, and each July January thereafter, the bill requires the state department to submit a report to the JBC that includes the information collected and reported through the standardized process and the total dollar amount of Colorado's TANF allocation that is redistributed through the state budget or other programs and services and publish the information on a monthly basis on the state department's website in a publicly accessible format.

No later than July 1, 2026, the bill requires the state department to submit a report to the JBC that includes certain information related to the standard of need for eligibility for basic cash assistance.

For the 2025-26 state fiscal year, the bill appropriates $151,645 to the state department for use by the office of economic security to conduct the works program evaluation.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

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