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8D71E49E130F08A68725869500037DCD Hearing Summary




PUBLIC
BILL SUMMARY For DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

JOINT COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ON JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
Date Mar 10, 2021      
Location LSB B



Department of Higher Education - Figure Setting




11:31:35 AM
Motion Staff recommendation for T7 and R1 restore funding for institutions of higher education. Other increases for the governing boards and aligned financial aid remain pending.
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


11:32:18 AM
Motion R2--tuition authority--delay action
Moved Moreno
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


11:38:36 AM
Motion Staff recommendation for R5 Restore Cybercoding Cryptology
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


11:39:38 AM
Motion Staff recommendation for NP4 Increased Medicaid match
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


11:41:01 AM
Motion Staff recommendation for correction to annualization for SB 16-196 Inclusive HED pilot
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


11:42:53 AM
Motion Staff recommendation for indirect cost collections and adjustments
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


11:44:50 AM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 1 Dept Administrative Office, including common policy items, non-prioritized requests, and base budget and line item detail
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection
11:50:37 AM  
Committee recessed
from 11:50am until 2:00pm


02:12:38 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for R4 Wind Down WICHE Professional Student Exchange but add a footnote reflecting the General Assembly's intent that program will work toward developing the benefit to focus more narrowly on those who serve underserved areas and communities and an RFI asking the Department to provide an analysis of the changes that would be necessary
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


02:17:46 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for R6 Colorado Student Leaders' Institute but add footnote expressing legislative intent that the program continue efforts expand participation of student populations that are under-served in post secondary education
Moved Hansen
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom No
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 5   NO: 1   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


02:34:00 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for R7 continue Open Educational Resources, including authorizing staff to draft legislation for Committee review
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 6   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


02:38:59 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for R8 RISE Fund for Higher Education
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection
02:46:23 PM  
Rep.  McCluskie
asked for a delay in the decision on R9 Restore Educator Loan Forgiveness
- no vote taken at this time


02:51:58 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for NP2 Extend Pause Annual Depreciation Lease Payment
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


02:55:54 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for staff initiated annualization to restore MTCF appropriation for Institute for Cannabis Research and allow roll forward of some research funds
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


02:57:54 PM
Motion Staff recommendation - Correction for annualization request for Prosecution Fellowship Program
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod No
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 5   NO: 1   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


03:04:25 PM
Motion Staff recommendation - Correction to annualization request and staff-initiated adjustment to Rural Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Professional Development line item
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 6   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


03:08:43 PM
Motion Staff recommendation - Staff-initiated Restore Teacher Mentor Grant Program funding
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 6   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


03:12:27 PM
Motion Staff recommendation - Staff-initiated Colorado Geological Survey common policy/inflationary adjustment and eliminate informational amounts from line item
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


03:15:53 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for technical adjustment - Higher Education federal mineral lease COP payments
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


03:18:02 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for other technical adjustments: WICHE, Veterinary Medicine capital outlay, BA1 acceleration stimulus
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


03:18:23 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 2 CCHE and Special Purpose line item detail and base budget appropriations
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


03:26:54 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for R3 Fort Lewis Native American Tuition Waiver
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Excused
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 5   NO: 0   EXC: 1   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


03:44:52 PM
Motion Place Department legislative proposal for Dependent Tuition Assistance Program legislation on bill title list
Moved Ransom
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


03:45:56 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 3 Financial Aid base budget and line item detail (excludes pending items for financial aid alignment with governing board increases)
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom No
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 5   NO: 1   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


03:50:27 PM
Motion Staff recommendation to continue and update RFI: explore eliminating the COF stipend program and instead use solely fee-for-service contracts to fund state institutions of higher education
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


03:53:39 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for COF stipend and fee-for-service adjustments incorporated in T7 and R1 requests
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


03:54:27 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 4 College Opportunity Fund Program base budgets and line item detail (excludes pending items for increases for institutions)
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


04:05:33 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 5 Governing Boards all decision items in this division and all base budgets and line item detail (excludes all pending items for institutional increases and tuition adjustments)
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


04:16:33 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 6 all base budgets and line item detail (excluding pending items for institutional increases)
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


04:20:51 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 7 Division of Occupational Education - all decision items, base budgets and line item detail (excluding pending items for institutional increases)
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


04:21:37 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Division 8 Auraria Higher Education Center - all decision items and line item detail
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


04:35:23 PM
Motion Appropriate $3.5 million General Fund in the Long Bill to fully cover the costs of History Colorado COP payments beginning in FY 2021-22; will consider further increases in future years as payments increase. (Action in lieu of HC1 and Staff-initiated one-time increase for History Colorado)
Moved Hansen
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 6   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS
04:36:27 PM  
No votes taken on
HC1 or staff-initiated one-time History Colorado support in light of Hansen
motion on COPs


04:42:45 PM
Motion Increase Long Bill appropriation for Cumbres and Toltec Railroad by $500,000 General Fund for capital costs and $21,500 General Fund for operating costs in lieu of request HC2 - JBC subsequently clarified amounts are one-time and to be annualized and reconsidered for FY 23
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 6   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


04:45:53 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for staff-initiated one-time Cumbres Toltec Railroad support -- Committee confirmed this is one-time amount
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen Yes
Herod Yes
Rankin Yes
Ransom Yes
McCluskie Yes
Moreno Yes
YES: 6   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  PASS


04:57:56 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Gaming, earned, and informational revenue for History Colorado and Division 9 History Colorado base budget and line item detail as amended by prior JBC action
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection


05:02:24 PM
Motion Staff recommendation for Long Bill footnotes and RFIs (as amended by prior JBC votes)
Moved McCluskie
Seconded
Hansen
Herod
Rankin
Ransom
McCluskie
Moreno
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 0   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection






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