ColoradoState budget office must request funds for employee compensation
For the 2026–27 fiscal year, the state budget office must ask lawmakers to consider a supplemental budget request about state employee compensation.
What it does
For the minimum wage section, Colorado is not treated as an employer to the extent a state employer has a collective bargaining agreement about employee wages.
Colorado is not an occupation or business place subject to a municipal occupational privilege tax.
The state budget office must ask the Joint Budget Committee to consider a supplemental budget request about state employee compensation for the 2026–27 fiscal year; the request does not approve funding.
Argument forThe state could avoid local occupational privilege taxes, which may keep those taxes from applying to state operations.
Argument againstState employees might not receive additional compensation if the state budget office requests money but the legislature does not approve it.
More detail
The law excludes Colorado from the definition of an employer in this section when a state employer has a collective bargaining agreement about employee wages. This definition applies in the section on minimum wage laws. The exclusion applies only to the extent a state employer has a collective bargaining agreement about employee wages. This provision takes effect upon passage.
The law says Colorado is not an occupation or business place subject to a municipal occupational privilege tax. This applies to the state under municipal rules for taxing occupations and businesses. This provision takes effect January 1, 2028.
The Office of State Planning and Budgeting must submit a supplemental budget request about state employee compensation to the Joint Budget Committee. The request concerns state employee compensation during the 2026–27 state fiscal year; it does not itself approve funding. The office must submit the request by January 4, 2027. This requirement is repealed effective July 1, 2027.
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- Passed Senate
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History
- 2026
- Jun 2Governor Jared Polis SignedBecame Law
- May 27Sent to the GovernorTo Governor
- May 26Signed by the President of the SenateMajor
- May 26Signed by the Speaker of the HouseMajor
- May 13Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- Vote recorded ADOPT. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded REPASS. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded BYD SCP. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Adopt the first report of the first conference committee on SB 26-193. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded NOT CONCUR APPT CC. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded REPASS. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded ADOPT CCR. Result: pass.Upper
- May 13House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- May 13Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- May 11House Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed House
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Lower
- May 9House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer Senate Bill 26-193, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.001. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Refer Senate Bill 26-193, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Lower
- May 9House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- May 9House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the WholeMinor
- May 8Senate Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed Senate
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Upper
- May 8Introduced In House - Assigned to AppropriationsMinor
- May 7Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer Senate Bill 26-193 to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Upper
- May 7Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- May 6Introduced In Senate - Assigned to AppropriationsIntroduced
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