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Committee forwards two audit-related bills, including RTD operating-cost change and local-audit threshold update
Summary
The committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 51, which updates RTD operating-cost standards per an audit, and Senate Bill 23, which raises local government audit thresholds; both bills were sent to the Committee of the Whole with favorable recommendations.
The House Transportation, Housing & Local Government Committee unanimously voted to advance two audit-related measures to the Committee of the Whole.
Senate Bill 51 updates definitions of RTD operating-cost standards following a legislative audit, and the sponsor described it as a targeted, technical fix the agency supported. Representative Linstadt said the measure came from the state auditor’s review of RTD investments and operations.
Senate Bill 23 raises local-government audit thresholds so that very small local governments with limited revenue are exempted from full audit requirements. Witnesses included Catherine Goff, a Northglenn city council member and former chair of Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA), who said improving transit and governance helps meet greenhouse-gas goals, and a representative of the Colorado Municipal League who said the bill would ease burdens on small jurisdictions.
Both bills passed committee on voice or roll call with unanimous favorable recommendations and will go next to the Committee of the Whole. Testimony was brief and the committee made no amendments on either bill during the session.
