HB 18-1100

HB 18-1100, also known as the Educator Licensure Cash Fund bill, allows the Colorado Department of Education to continue using money from educator license fees for three more years. This fund helps cover costs related to issuing and managing teaching licenses in the state. The department has been required to report on how this money is spent and must do so until the continuous appropriation ends. Now that the bill has been signed, the department will no longer need annual approval to use these funds but will stop reporting to legislative committees after three years. This affects educators who pay license fees and impacts how the state manages education funding.

Official Summary

Joint Budget Committee. Since July 1, 2011, money in the educator licensure cash fund, which includes educator license fees, has been continuously appropriated to the state board of education and the department of education (department) for its expenses incurred in the administration of the 'Colorado Educator Licensing Act of 1991'. While the money is continuously appropriated, the department is required to report to legislative committees about its expenditures from the fund and about application processing time. Beginning with the next fiscal year, the general assembly is required to annually appropriate the money and the reporting requirement is repealed. The bill grants the department 3 more years of continuous appropriation authority, and it likewise extends the related reporting requirement. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More

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