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Colorado Revised Statutes Title 24. Government State § 24-50-902. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

As used in this part 9, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)(a) “Employee” means, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), all state employees, including those employees within the state personnel system and those exempt from the state personnel system as specified in section 13(2) of article XII of the state constitution.

(b) “Employee” does not include:

(I) An employee of the office of state planning and budgeting, the office of the state auditor, the joint budget committee, or the department of personnel;

(II) An elected official or member of the general assembly;

(III) The executive director, program manager, division director, or budget officer of a principal department; or

(IV) An employee of a governing board of an institution of higher education or a higher education institutional system, an employee of an institution of higher education or of a higher education institutional system, or an employee of the Auraria higher education center created in article 70 of title 23, C.R.S.

(2) “Executive director” means a state agency's executive director or similar senior level manager or managing director.

(3) “Idea application” means the application described in section 24-50-903(1)(a).

(4) “Projected savings” means an amount calculated by a state agency that may be realized by the agency directly as a result of an employee's idea application.

(5) “Savings realized” means an amount calculated by a state agency that was actually realized by the agency directly as a result of an employee's idea application.

(6) “State agency” means any department, board, bureau, commission, division, institution, office, or other agency of the executive, legislative, and judicial branch of the state government. “State agency” shall not include an institution of higher education.

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