Bill
SB 25-104
Adjusts FY2024–25 CDPHE budget across administration, health equity, environmental justice, data, and local public health grants, via targeted fund reallocations and FTE changes.
Status and timing
- Governor signed: February 27, 2025 (sent to governor Feb 21, 2025).
- Introduced in Senate: February 3, 2025; passed both chambers without amendment in February 2025.
- Type: Supplemental appropriation amending the FY 2024–25 appropriation originally enacted in HB 24‑1430 (Session Laws of Colorado 2024, Section 2, Part XVII). The changes apply to the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024.
Purpose and intent
- Make supplemental adjustments to the Department of Public Health and Environment’s FY 2024–25 budget to reflect additional or reallocated funding across administration, public health programs, environmental justice and equity initiatives, data/health statistics, and payments/transfers to local public health agencies and other state departments.
Key provisions and notable line items (selected)
- Amends Part XVII (Department of Public Health and Environment) of HB 24‑1430 by updating multiple line-item appropriations (personal services, operating, grants, reappropriations, etc.).
- Administration: Personal services and related personnel costs (health benefits, PERA distributions, salary survey, step pay, workers’ compensation) remain budgeted across multiple fund sources (example: Personal Services ~$11.89M; Health/Life/Dental ~$26.96M). Administration includes ~91.3 FTE listed.
- Office of Health Equity & Environmental Justice:
- Program costs and staff (17.5 FTE) and related operating funds.
- Health Disparities Grants: $8,600,799 (funded from the Health Disparities Grant Program Fund).
- Environmental Justice Grants Program: $1,968,858 (noted as continuously appropriated Community Impact Cash Fund monies shown for informational purposes).
- Necessary document assistance and ombudsperson positions funded (examples: $310,544 and $147,761 respectively).
- Local public health: Distributions to local public health agencies (example line shows ~$18.85M).
- Center for Health and Environmental Data and Health Statistics: supplemental funding for vital statistics, program costs and staff (selected amounts shown in bill text).
- Funding sources: a mix of General Fund, General Fund Exempt, cash funds (e.g., Health Disparities Grant Program Fund; Marijuana Tax Cash Fund; Stationary Sources Control Fund; Clean Fleet Enterprise Fund), federal funds, and reappropriated funds. Several items reference departmental indirect cost recoveries and transfers from other state departments (e.g., Medicaid transfers from HCPF).
Who is affected
- CDPHE operations and staff (multiple divisions).
- Local public health agencies that receive distributions.
- Community organizations and entities eligible for health disparities and environmental justice grants.
- Fund and program managers across state funds identified in the bill (including continuous appropriations such as the Community Impact Cash Fund and Clean Fleet Enterprise Fund).
Procedural notes
- Committee of reference: Appropriations (Senate and House). Reported favorably and passed both chambers without floor amendments.
- This bill is a technical/appropriations vehicle to adjust enacted FY24‑25 funding; it does not create broadly new policy outside of allocating funds and positions as detailed in the bill text.
For full details
- The engrossed and signed act includes detailed line‑by‑line appropriation tables (fund sources, FTE counts, and footnotes). Consult the bill text (SB 25‑104) or the amended Part XVII of Session Laws of Colorado 2024 (HB 24‑1430, Section 2) for the complete itemized appropriations and statutory cross‑references.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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