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Senate approves Public Safety supplemental and extends spending authority for testing backlogs after debate
Summary
Senate Bill 105 and a budget-neutral amendment extending one-year spending authority were adopted to allow the Department of Public Safety and CBI to pursue contracted testing capacity for evidence kits; the Joint Budget Committee had opposed automatic roll-forward authority.
The Senate adopted Senate Bill 105, a supplemental appropriation for the Department of Public Safety, and approved an amendment that extends spending authority by 12 months to allow the state to use contract capacity to reduce the backlog of forensic testing at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Senator Bridges moved the supplemental; Senator Weissman offered amendment J001, a budget‑neutral change that replaces fiscal…
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