Colorado Coalition For Retirement Security

This bill had a public hearing in front of the House Finance committee on February 23rd. We are waiting for the committee to now schedule a vote on this bill. HB 12-1179 is  sponsored by Representative Jim Kerr (R-Littleton). The bill would replace four of the elected positions on the PERA Board of Trustees with [...]

Update 4/12/12 – Senate Finance killed this bill. Update 3/23/12 – This bill has been assigned to the Senate Finance committee – visit this page to email the committee. Update 3/15: HB 1150 Passed the House on 3rd reading. Next it will be assigned to a Senate committee. Update: This bill was amended on March [...]

Update 3/23/12 – The sponsor Rep. DelGrosso requested that his bill be killed in appropriations – the vote was 8-5 to kill the bill. This bill is now dead. This bill was amended on March 1st to only affect new hires. The bill will now be heard in the House Appropriations Committee. You can see [...]

House Bill 1250 was introduced by Representative Holbert. This bill changes the way the PERA health care trust fund is funded. Currently, employers pay 1.02% of employee salaries into the fund. HB 1250 would change this funding mechanism which would result in the trust fund not being adequately funded and could result in the end [...]

This bill was introduced  by Senator Ted Harvey (R-Highlands Ranch). It would require that  age  requirements for receiving PERA benefits would match the age requirements for  receiving Social Security benefits for  any new  PERA member hired on or after January 1, 2013. CCRS opposed this and all bills that would affect the shared sacrifice we [...]