2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 24 - Government - State
State Personnel System and State Employees
Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel
Part 1 - Department of Personnel
§ 24-50-110. Budget control - personal services

(1) In order to provide controls and proper identification of personal services costs necessary to carry out the policy of the state regarding compensation of state employees, the following administrative and fiscal procedures shall apply:

(a) Whenever the authorities or responsibilities within state government are altered by the general assembly, executive order of the governor, or action of an executive director of a principal department or whenever in the course of administering the state personnel system the state personnel director conducts a study of positions or classes in the state personnel system, the state personnel director shall estimate the increased costs of personal services, if any, resulting from such actions and shall submit such estimated costs to the joint budget committee of the general assembly and to the office of state planning and budgeting.

(b) In their annual budget requests, the heads of all principal departments of state government shall set forth separately the projected costs of personal services arising from anticipated classification reviews, promotions, and other increases in compensation or bonuses for employees in their departments. The costs of personal services shall include any merit pay.

(c) No funds appropriated to any principal department for purposes other than personal services shall be used for personal services; except that the head of a principal department may use such funds for temporary personal services upon a showing of emergency or unusual circumstances where such use is necessary to the proper functioning of the department. Each such use shall be approved in advance by the governor and shall be reported to the general assembly.

(d) (I) Except as set forth in subparagraph (II) of this paragraph (d), each principal department shall annually reconcile the number of positions it has authorized for the prior fiscal year with the number of appropriated full-time equivalent employees for the same fiscal year. On or before September 1 of each year, a department shall submit a copy of such reconciliation to the department of personnel. On or before October 1 of each year, the department of personnel shall prepare a report that consolidates all of the departmental reconciliations and provide the report to the office of state planning and budgeting and the joint budget committee. The department of personnel has the authority to abolish any nonappropriated or vacant classified positions identified in this reconciliation.

(II) On or before September 1 of each year, the department of higher education shall report to the department of personnel the number of positions authorized at each institution of higher education, but the department is not subject to the reconciliation requirement set forth in subparagraph (I) of this paragraph (d).

(III) This paragraph (d) is exempt from the provisions of section 24-1-136 (11), and the periodic reporting requirements of this section are effective until changed by the general assembly acting by bill.