The Colorado Springs Gazette reports on the legislature budgeting process, "Ritter office says proposed GOP cuts bad timing."
Approval of the state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, a process the Senate took up this week, means many programs will have extra funding assured. But because the Joint Budget Committee allocated only $2 million for bills that have yet to pass out of the Legislature this year, several hundred measures are competing for a relatively small pot of cash. Many sponsors are resigned, in fact, to see bills that passed out of other committees die at the hands of the House or Senate appropriations committees, the purse keepers of the General Assembly.
And it notes that one of the bills likely to die because of lack of funding is:
• Senate Bill 195, the effort to make people convicted of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12 eligible for the death penalty.
Earlier coverage of Colorado legislative activity is here and here.
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