ColoradoColorado allows broadband fund spending at three named prisons
Colorado corrections officials can use the state’s broadband fund to install internet infrastructure at three named prisons if lawmakers approve money each year.
What it does
State corrections officials may use the broadband fund to install internet infrastructure at Trinidad, Arkansas Valley, and Arrowhead prisons if lawmakers approve money each year.
The section governing the broadband fund ends on July 1, 2028, including its permission to spend money at covered prisons.
Argument forIf lawmakers approve funding, internet installation could give these three prisons better connections for their operations.
Argument againstSpending the fund’s money at these three prisons could leave less available for internet installation at other covered prisons.
More detail
State corrections officials may use the broadband infrastructure cash fund to install internet infrastructure at three named prisons. The named prisons are Trinidad Correctional Facility, Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility, and Arrowhead Correctional Facility. Spending requires lawmakers to approve money each year; the law does not guarantee funding.
The law sets July 1, 2028, as the date when the section governing the broadband fund ends. This end date applies to the section governing the broadband infrastructure cash fund. The section is repealed effective July 1, 2028.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- May 28Governor Jared Polis SignedBecame Law
- May 26Signed by the Speaker of the HouseMajor
- May 26Signed by the President of the SenateMajor
- May 26Sent 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 26-1348 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 9House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- Apr 8House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- Apr 6House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1348 to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 2Introduced In House - Assigned to AppropriationsIntroduced
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