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HB 25-1313

Modify Laws Within Purview of the Capital Development Committee

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Lorena García and 7 co-sponsors

HB 25-1313 standardizes Colorado capital budget timing, setting encumbrance by Nov 1 and aligning reporting, appointments, and leadership with current practice.

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Bill Summary · HB 25-1313

Summary — HB 25-1313: Modify Laws Within Purview of the Capital Development Committee

Status: Governor Signed (June 3, 2025) — Effective August 6, 2025
Introduced: March 31, 2025 | Sponsors: Reps. Story, Lindsay; Sens. Mullica, Hinrichsen

Purpose

HB 25-1313 updates, clarifies, and codifies several administrative and procedural aspects of Colorado’s capital budget process overseen by the Capital Development Committee (CDC). The changes align statutory deadlines and practices with current practice and create a few new statutory date-specific requirements.

Key provisions

  • Encumbrance deadline

    • Establishes November 1 each year as the statutory encumbrance deadline for most capital projects (replacing the six‑month-from-Long Bill standard).
    • Replaces the State Controller “waiver” process with a CDC‑recommended deadline extension (generally a 6‑month extension).

  • Reporting and submission deadlines

    • Moves the State Treasurer’s annual report on the fiscal health of state institutions of higher education from September 1 to March 1 annually (beginning with the 2025–26 report).
    • Adjusts the Office of State Planning and Budgeting’s (OSPB) deadline for submitting updates to its capital budget recommendation from January 1 to January 2.

  • CDC appointments and leadership elections

    • Requires CDC appointments (including designations of members-elect) to be made no later than December 1.
    • Standardizes CDC leadership elections to occur at the committee’s first December meeting each year and clarifies alternation/eligibility of chair and vice-chair between House and Senate members.

  • Transportation requests

    • Makes submission by the Transportation Commission of annual capital requests to the CDC optional (removes a mandatory submission requirement).

  • Higher education capital practices

    • Codifies current practice for approval of cash‑funded projects submitted by institutions of higher education and adjusts review and reporting requirements to better reflect existing practice (including repealing several prior report/approval requirements).

  • Art in Public Places

    • Clarifies when the CDC, in consultation with the Council on Creative Industries, may exempt a project from Art in Public Places requirements if the project does not meet the program’s original purpose.

  • Supplemental capital appropriations

    • Clarifies that a supplemental appropriation for a capital project is available for the remainder of the fiscal year when enacted and for the next two subsequent state fiscal years.

Who is affected

  • State agencies and institutions of higher education (encumbrance timing, project approval process)
  • Department of Transportation (optional annual capital request)
  • CDC members (appointment timing, election process)
  • Office of the State Treasurer and OSPB (changed report/submission dates)
  • State Controller (changes to encumbrance-extension procedure)
  • Council on Creative Industries (consultation role on art exemptions)

Fiscal impact

  • Minimal ongoing workload effects for state agencies (per Legislative Council Staff fiscal notes).
  • No change in state revenue or expenditures; no appropriation required. Fiscal notes report $0 impact for FY 2025‑26 and FY 2026‑27, 0.0 FTE.

Procedural/timeline notes

  • Legislative action: Passed House and Senate in spring 2025; transmitted to Governor May 16, 2025; signed June 3, 2025.
  • Effective date: August 6, 2025 (per final fiscal note).
  • Important statutory deadlines established/changed by the bill:
    • Encumbrance: November 1 (annually)
    • State Treasurer higher‑education fiscal health report: March 1 (annually)
    • OSPB capital update submission: January 2
    • CDC appointments designated: no later than December 1
    • CDC leadership election: first December meeting each year

For more detail, see the bill text and the Legislative Council Staff fiscal notes (Initial: April 7, 2025; Final: August 12, 2025).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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