DENVER — The Senate concurred with House amendments to Senate Bill 105 on Feb. 18, a supplemental appropriation affecting the Department of Public Safety and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Senator Bridges explained that the JBC declined to give rollover authority for part of a prior appropriation until CBI provided a plan to use those funds to address an investigative backlog. House amendments added a footnote and guardrails describing acceptable uses and oversight conditions; the Senate agreed to keep that language in a footnote and to have the Joint Budget Committee follow up with a binding bill.

The Senate concurred with the House amendments and then repassed the bill as amended. The floor record shows concurrence was adopted and the repassage vote recorded as 32 ayes, 2 no, 0 absent, 0 excused, and 1 vacant. Sponsors said the JBC will prepare binding statutory language to further define required reporting, milestones and accountability for CBI's backlog remediation.