Colorado House Bill 07-1164

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Purpose

House Bill 1164 was introduced in 2007 with the purpose of establishing a single state-wide searchable database to provide for the transparency of all state money expenditures by all state agencies.

Bill Text

The term "Expenditure of State Money" is defined in this bill as:

  • A. Contracts
  • B. Subcontracts
  • C. Grants
  • D. Tax Refunds, Rebates, or Credits (excluded refunds of overpayment of income tax)

"Expenditure of State Moneys" does not include transfers of funds between two state agencies or payments of stat assistance to an individual.

For the purpose of this bill, a "State Agency" is "any department, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution of higher education, agency, or other governmental unit of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government."

The Website

The responsibility of developing and maintaining the website will be assigned to the state treasurer. The website must be created and operational no later than January 1, 2008.

The information contained in each database entry will be:

  • The Name and address of the entity receiving funds.
  • The amount of funds.
  • The type of transaction
  • The date of the transaction
  • The state agency making the transaction
  • The source of funds in the transaction
  • The description of the reason for the expenditure
  • Any other relevant information

This information must be presented to the state treasurer within five days of the expenditure being made.The state treasurer has five days from the time of receiving the information to make it available on the website. This information shall stay in the database for a minimum of one year. [1]

Votes

The only votes for this bill was held by the House Committee on State, Veterans, and military affairs on Feb 1, 2007.

The first vote

The first vote was to move the bill to the Committee on Appropriations:

  • Yes:4
  • No:7
  • Abs:0

Those in Favor: Cadman, Lambert, Liston Lundberg

Those Opposed: Carroll T., Casso, Gallegos, Jahn, Labuda, Todd, and Weissmann.[2]

The Second Vote

The second, and last vote was to postpone the bill indefinitely.

  • Yes: 7
  • No: 4
  • Absent: 0

Those in Favor: Carroll T., Casso, Gallegos, Jahn, Labuda, Todd, and Weissmann.

Those Opposed: Cadman, Lambert, Liston Lundberg[3]

External links

References

  1. ↑ Bill 07 1164
  2. ↑ [Bill History 07 1164
  3. ↑ [Bill History 07 1164
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