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JBC deadlocks on motion to pause Colorado's new K‑12 funding formula
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee split 3‑3 on a motion to declare the statutory trigger for pausing House Bill 1448 had been met. The motion failed, so the new K‑12 formula will proceed as current law pending further action in the School Finance Act and the long bill.
The Joint Budget Committee on March 24 deadlocked 3‑3 on a proposal to declare that the statutory trigger to pause implementation of House Bill 1448 had been met, a vote that would have kept the state on the prior K‑12 funding formula. The motion, moved by the committee’s vice chair, failed on a tie; Bridges, Taggart and Sarita were recorded as objecting.
The question before the committee was narrowly procedural but consequential: did current revenue conditions meet the statutory criteria that would pause the switch to the new school finance formula enacted as House Bill 1448? The committee heard staff and legal summaries before members debated whether a simple majority vote to notify legislative leaders and the education commissioner should be taken.
Ms. Ewell, a legislative staff member, summarized the statute’s mechanics for members: "The…
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