More than two dozen bills have been introduced ahead of Thursday’s special legislative session, where lawmakers will try to come up with nearly $800 million in budget cuts.

What’s notably absent from the proposed bills so far is any clear plan for how those cuts would be made.

Indeed, only one bill even hints at specific reductions — a proposal from Western Slope lawmakers to cut $264,000 from the state’s wolf management program and redirect that money to help pay for health insurance subsidies.

There are two bills, similar in some regards, from members of the Joint Budget Committee, that deal with Gov. Jared Polis' authority to enact spending cuts when revenues fall short.

State analysts said the state lost $1.2 billion, mostly in corporate income tax revenue that was cut as a result

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