HB18-1102 Summary

• Extends the prosecution fellowship program duration from one year to up to fifteen months for law school graduates placed with rural district attorneys' offices in Colorado.

• Changes fellowship funding mechanism to require the General Assembly to annually appropriate sufficient money for six fellow scholarships, replacing the previous structure of directly funding salaries and benefits.

• Allows unexpended fellowship funds to be used for fellow relocation costs, further training opportunities, and cost of living adjustments in the next fiscal year without additional appropriation.

• Appropriates $165,726 from the general fund to the Department of Higher Education for the 2018-19 fiscal year to implement the program.

• Maintains program eligibility to law graduates from the University of Colorado School of Law and University of Denver Sturm College of Law, with each school contributing twenty percent of fellowship scholarship costs if desiring student participation.