ColoradoConstruction inspection fees must drop after three years of excess reserves
Colorado requires fee cuts for school and health facility construction inspections when money not committed to spending exceeds each year’s cap for three consecutive budget years.
What it does
State managers must cut fees supporting school and health facility construction inspections when a fund’s money not committed to spending exceeds its yearly reserve cap for three straight budget years.
Argument forThe three-year trigger could help inspection programs handle yearly swings in spending without requiring fee cuts because of a brief surplus.
Argument againstFee payers could keep paying the same charges while inspection funds hold excess reserves, until the three-year trigger requires cuts.
More detail
State construction inspection managers must cut fees by an amount calculated to bring money not committed to spending within the current budget year’s reserve cap. The rule covers the public school construction and inspection cash fund and the health facility construction and inspection cash fund. Both are excluded from the general cash-fund reserve limits. School inspection managers must cut one or more fees paid into their fund. Health facility inspection managers must cut the construction inspection fee identified in the law. Managers may later raise a reduced fee only if projected reserves stay within the cap. The trigger uses each fund’s balance at the end of each of three consecutive budget years. Required fee cuts target the current budget year’s reserves.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- May 29Governor Jared Polis SignedBecame Law
- May 22Signed by the Speaker of the HouseMajor
- May 22Signed by the President of the SenateMajor
- May 22Sent to the GovernorTo Governor
- Apr 16Senate Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed Senate
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 15Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- Apr 14Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1393 to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 13Introduced In Senate - Assigned to AppropriationsMinor
- Apr 11House Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed House
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 10House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- Apr 9House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- Apr 8House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- Apr 6House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1393 to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 2Introduced In House - Assigned to AppropriationsIntroduced
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