On 12/01/2014 02:04 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
Interesting bit at the bottom: "Lawmakers rejected the bill, citing programming costs to the state Department of Revenue to make the change permanent."
Last year the Colorado Dept. of Revenue estimated that it'd cost $9,820 to make the change; this includes the cost of updating about 300 servers running Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, other Unix, and HP-UX. See: http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2013a/csl.nsf/billcontainers/5A41DE1DD... My guess is that the actual cost of upgrading has been underestimated, as the state has a lot more than 300 servers. It's just that only the Dept. of Revenue bothered to estimate the cost. There's also the cost to private citizens both within and outside of Colorado, but presumably the Colorado legislature doesn't care as much about that.