Joint Budget Committee

JBC Briefings on FY12/13 Department Budget Requests

JBC Departmental Hearings on FY12/13 Department Budget Requests

FY 12/13 Budget Figure Setting Documents

Figure Setting: Memo on TANF MOE Reimbursement

Figure Setting: Community Provider Rates

Figure Setting: Compensation-Related Common Policies

Figure Setting: Indirect Cost Recoveries

Figure Setting: Memo: Informational Funds in the Long Bill

Figure Setting: Dept of Military and Veterans Affairs

Figure Setting: Tobacco Programs

Figure Setting: Dept of Local Affairs

Figure Setting: Treasury

Figure Setting: Dept of Labor and Employment

Figure Setting: Natural Resources (EDO, Parks, Wildlife, Water)

Figure Setting: Natural Resources (Mining, Oil & Gas, Land)

Figure Setting: Dept of Regulatory Agencies

Figure Setting: Judiciary

Figure Setting: Office of the Governor

Figure Setting: Information Technology Common Policies

Figure Setting: Human Services (Counties, Self Sufficiency, Adults)

Figure Setting: Legislative Department

Figure Setting: Department of State

FY11/12 Budget Figure Setting Documents

FY11/12 Community Provider Rates

FY11/12 Common Policies Total Compensation

Figure Setting: Common Policies (Cap Complex, Admin Law Judges, Vehicles)

Unemployment Insurance Call Volume and Wait Times

JBC Staff Memo on Unemployment Insurance Rate Calculations

FY11/12 Supplemental Requests

Corrections 1331 Sep 20 2011

Education 1331 Sep 20 2011

CDPHE 1331 Sep 20 2011

Capital Construction 1331 Nov 9 2011

Governor's Jan 3 2012 Request for FY11/12 Supplementals

Republican Study Committee of Colorado

(Left to right) Sen. Dave Schultheis, Sen. Kevin Lundberg, and Kent Lambert in a working group to finalize new revisions to the Declaration of Principles of the Republican Study Committee of Colorado. University of Colorado academic hiring and tenure policy, the status of illegal immigration bills, and upcoming plans for hearings on primary and secondary education were also discussed.

RSCC Declaration of Principles

I have declared my dedication to the principles of limited and Constitutional role for civil government, a strong national defense, the protection of individual and property rights, and the preservation of traditional family values.

Representative Kent Lambert

Individual liberty
Personal responsibility
Limited government
Rule of law
Sanctity of life
Legal immigration
Free markets and commerce
Lower taxes
Family integrity and the American moral tradition
Quality education through choice
Free-market conservation
Increase private-sector healthcare

I am working to support core Republican principles and to apply those principles through a strong Republican organization in the General Assembly. My experience as Executive Director of the Republican Study Committee of Colorado (RSCC) demonstrates my commitment to that goal, and my ability to make it work. I helped write the RSCC Declaration of Principles, and I follow those principles to guide my votes as a State Representative.

Boy Scout Centennial License Plate signed into law

June 6, 2008

Authorization for a commorative license plate honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, sponsored by Representative and Eagle Scout Kent Lambert, was signed into law today by Governor Bill Ritter.

HB-1151 was co-sponsored by Eagle Scout Representative Terrance Carroll of Denver, Eagle Scouts Senator Dave Schultheis and Representative Larry Liston of Colorado Springs, and many other legislators.

The Boy Scouts of America was founded on February 8, 1910, by William Boyce, a Chicago publisher, following the model of the British Scouts started by Lord Robert Baden-Powell a few years earlier.

Since 1910, more than 111 million young people have joined Scouting organizations. As of December 31, 2006, Boy Scout program membership included: 1,167,102 Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venture Scouts (which includes both young men and young women); 1,701,861 Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts; and almost 1.2 million adult volunteers, all organized as 121,530 Packs, Troops and Teams.

Representative Lambert was awarded the Eagle Scout Award in 1970 just after he joined the Air Force Academy. It was presented to him by the Academy Commandant of Cadets, Brig. Gen. Robin Olds. He later started an American Boy Scout troop at the American Embassy in Amman, Jordan, and served as Scoutmaster for about 20 boys.

Two Kent Lambert-sponsored Referenda now in the Colorado Constitution

Denver, November, 2008

Two House Concurrent Resolutions sponsored by Kent Lambert and Senator David Schultheis, were approved by voters on the November 4 ballot.

Constitutional referenda require approval by two-thirds of members in both houses of the General Assembly, which is relatively rare. The two-year long 66th Colorado General Assembly produced only four referred measures for the 2008 ballot. Both of the Lambert/Schultheis measures received 99 of 100 possible votes.

The referenda are designed to selectively remove obsolete language from the Constitution. HCR08-1008 removes language from the original 1876 Colorado Constitution and from the Prohibition Era concerning "spurious, poisonous, or drugged spiritous liquors," which protected Coloradoans before the days of the Federal Food and Drug Administration and a variety of other federal and state laws.

HCR08-1009 removes an obsolete and superseded provision that allowed a tax waiver for "arborial planting" of "hedges, orchards, and forests" on private land. Research indicated that since 1876 that waiver had never been used.

In response to the opinion of many that the Constitution was getting too long, these were two of several sections of the Constitution that were originally identified by Representative Douglas Bruce as good candidates for removal.

The two measures appeared on the November 4 ballot as "Referendum M" and "Referendum N", and were passed by a majority of the voters.

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