Colorado Senate Bill 135 Trades TABOR Refunds for Limited School Funding

By Nash Herman | Commentary, Complete Colorado

Colorado state senators recently engaged in more debate over Senate Bill 135, ultimately passing the measure and sending it over the House for consideration.    

The bill sends a ballot measure to voters this November, exchanging billions of dollars in Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) refunds for a relatively small increase in education funding. 

The Senate debate was enlightening in showing which amendments the bill sponsors supported and more importantly, those they did not. 

For the kids (but not too much)

One might think that the logical mechanism of a bill titled “State Public K-12 Education Funding” would be to increase revenues and direct the new money to Colorado’s public K-12 education. 

That is, after all, how SB-135 is being marketed to voters. 

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