{"id":1161,"date":"2018-11-27T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/11\/27\/lege-trend-funding-transportation-with-prison-funds\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T21:35:00","slug":"lege-trend-funding-transportation-with-prison-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-funding-transportation-with-prison-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Funding Transportation with Prison Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Colorado<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislation:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bill-search?search_api_views_fulltext=sb17-267&amp;field_chamber=All&amp;field_bill_type=All&amp;field_sessions=All&amp;sort_bef_combine=search_api_relevance%20DESC\">SB267 (2017 | CO)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>converted a hospital provider fee that supported expanded\u00a0Medicaid \u00a0to an enterprise fund, removing it from the general fund for $500 Million under the state general-fund spending cap<\/li>\n<li>+ $500 million in\u00a0\u201clease-purchase\u201d of state buildings\n<ul>\n<li>A dozen of the lease-purchase arrangements are prisons<\/li>\n<li>Prisons make a good bond offering because of the necessity of prisons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradopolitics.com\/news\/how-colorado-is-using-prisons-to-help-fund-transportation\/article_cdd7b6da-f269-11e8-9d29-d3dbb04fd1e2.html\">Colorado Politics |\u00a0How Colorado is using prisons to help fund transportation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Colorado<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislation:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bill-search?search_api_views_fulltext=sb17-267&amp;field_chamber=All&amp;field_bill_type=All&amp;field_sessions=All&amp;sort_bef_combine=search_api_relevance%20DESC\">SB267 (2017 | CO)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>converted a hospital provider fee that supported expanded\u00a0Medicaid \u00a0to an enterprise fund, removing it from the general fund for $500 Million under the state general-fund spending cap<\/li>\n<li>+ $500 million in\u00a0\u201clease-purchase\u201d of state buildings\n<ul>\n<li>A dozen of the lease-purchase arrangements are prisons<\/li>\n<li>Prisons make a good bond offering because of the necessity of prisons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradopolitics.com\/news\/how-colorado-is-using-prisons-to-help-fund-transportation\/article_cdd7b6da-f269-11e8-9d29-d3dbb04fd1e2.html\">Colorado Politics |\u00a0How Colorado is using prisons to help fund transportation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}