Colorado § 13-100-104 - Budget requests and annual statewide compensation adjustments.

§ 13-100-104. Budget requests and annual statewide compensation adjustments.

(1) (a) The office shall submit a single, consolidated base budget, pursuant to the requirements of section 2-3-208, that includes the base budget information from each included agency, if provided.

(b) The office shall submit a single, consolidated budget request, pursuant to the requirements of section 2-3-208, that includes budget request amendments from each included agency, if provided.

(2) The office shall coordinate all state budget process communications with the joint budget committee and the office of state planning and budgeting for the included agencies.

(3) The office shall use standard joint budget committee and office of state planning and budgeting budget schedules and budget data systems to prepare budget documents.

(4) The office shall maintain a consolidated compensation schedule for each staff position in the included agencies. The consolidated compensation schedule must include the following information for each staff position:

(a) Included agency job title;

(b) Equivalent job classification that the position is anchored to in the executive branch, judicial branch, or office of state public defender compensation plan;

(c) Current salary range for the equivalent job classification;

(d) Current salary and percentile position in range; and

(e) The state fiscal year in which the staff position was added.

(5) (a) The office shall submit a single, consolidated statewide compensation and benefits budget amendment request that accounts for all included agencies as generated by each included agency compensation template or any future equivalent replacement system used and defined by the office of state planning and budgeting and the department of personnel.

(b) Agency compensation template formulas and calculation structure must not be modified in creating compensation and benefits budget amendment requests.

(c) If any agency compensation template includes a manual adjustment to reflect positions that are approved but unfilled, vacant, or have been eliminated or reclassified, at the time the payroll data download is used to populate the template, the manual adjustments or changes must be documented in the compensation adjustment request narrative, by position for each discrete manual adjustment included. Each reclassification that adjusts a position to a different equivalent job classification defined in subsection (4)(b) of this section must be specifically explained in the request narrative.

Source: L. 2024: Entire article R&RE, (SB 24-217), ch. 308, p. 2082, § 1, effective May 31. L. 2026: (1) amended, (HB 26-1408), ch. 287, p. 1582, § 2, effective June 1.