Lege TREND. Funding Transportation with Prison Funds

Where: Colorado

Legislation: SB267 (2017 | CO)  

• converted a hospital provider fee that supported expanded Medicaid  to an enterprise fund, removing it from the general fund for $500 Million under the state general-fund spending cap
• + $500 million in “lease-purchase” of state buildings
  • A dozen of the lease-purchase arrangements are prisons
  • Prisons make a good bond offering because of the necessity of prisons

Colorado Politics | How Colorado is using prisons to help fund transportation