2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 24 - Government - State
State Funds
Article 75 - State Funds
Part 2 - General Fund
§ 24-75-220. State education fund - transfers - surplus - legislative declaration

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, on the date on which the state controller publishes the comprehensive annual financial report of the state for the fiscal year 2011-12, the state treasurer shall transfer to the state education fund created in section 17 (4) of article IX of the state constitution fifty-nine million dollars from the general fund surplus designated in accordance with section 24-75-201 (1) for the fiscal year 2011-12, which represents the unrestricted general fund balance after the applicable amount of reserve required pursuant to section 24-75-201.1 (1) (d).

(2) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, on the date on which the state controller publishes the comprehensive annual financial report of the state for the fiscal year 2012-13, the state treasurer shall transfer to the state education fund created in section 17 (4) of article IX of the state constitution the general fund surplus designated in accordance with section 24-75-201 (1) for the fiscal year 2012-13, which represents the unrestricted general fund balance after the applicable amount of reserve required pursuant to section 24-75-201.1 (1) (d).

(3) (a) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that Senate Bill 13-234, enacted in 2013, required the state treasurer to transfer moneys from the general fund to the old hire plan members' benefit trust fund created in section 31-31-701 (6), C.R.S., to satisfy the state's future required payments. This transfer reduced the amount of the general fund surplus that would otherwise have been transferred to the state education fund created in section 17 (4) of article IX of the state constitution under subsection (2) of this section. The transfers in paragraph (b) of this subsection (3) are intended to reimburse the state education fund for this reduced transfer and they represent the amount the state would have contributed to the old hire plan member's benefit trust fund in the absence of the early pay off.

(b) On April 30, 2014, the state treasurer shall transfer forty-five million three hundred twenty-one thousand seventy-nine dollars from the general fund to the state education fund created in section 17 (4) of article IX of the state constitution. On April 30, 2015, and April 30 of each year thereafter through 2018, the state treasurer shall transfer twenty-five million three hundred twenty-one thousand seventy-nine dollars from the general fund to the state education fund. On April 30, 2019, the state treasurer shall transfer twenty-four million nine hundred ninety-one thousand seven hundred thirty-nine dollars from the general fund to the state education fund.

(4) Repealed.