MHAC Legislative Chart 2010
Colorado General Assembly Website
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Bill #
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Sponsor(s)
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Bill Title
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Status
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MHAC
position
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HB 1004
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Massey / Foster
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Standardized Health Ins Information
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4/20 - Governor signed
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Support
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HB 1008
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Schafer & McCann / Carroll & Schwartz
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Standardized Health Ins Information
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3/29 - Governor signed
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Support
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| HB 1010 |
Ferrandino/ Morse |
Expand Public/Private Initiatives |
4/15 - Governor signed
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Actively
Support
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HB 1032
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Frangas / Boyd
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Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services
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5/27 - Governor signed
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Actively
Support
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HB 1033
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Massey / Boyd, Schwartz
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Screening Brief Intervention Referral
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6/7 - Governor signed
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Support
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HB 1061
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Merrifield / Tochtrop
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CO Medical Donation Program
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1/13 – Introduced in House, Assigned to HHS
2/8 – HHS referred amended
2/19 - 2nd reading laid over to 6/9/10 (Killed)
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Support
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HB 1072
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Court / Heath
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Create Budget Stabilization Reserve Fund
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1/13 – Introduced in House, Assigned to Finance
3/10 - POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
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Support
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HB 1073
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Roberts/Sandoval
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Colorado 2-1-1 Checkoff
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6/7 - Governor signed
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Support
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HB 1104
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Looper / Williams
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Veterans Treatment Court
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4/16 - Governor signed
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Under Review
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HB 1137
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Gardner B. / Steadman
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People First Language in Laws
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4/15 - Governor signed
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Actively
Support
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HB 1160
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Rice & Stephens / Mitchell
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Wellness Incentives Rewards Outcomes
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5/26 - Governor signed
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Actively Support
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HB 1163
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Acree / Scheffel
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Interstate Purchase Health Insurance
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1/20 - Introduced in House, Assigned to State, Vet, Mil Affairs
2/16 - POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
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Oppose
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HB 1166
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Kefalas / Newell
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Plain Language in Insurance Policies
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4/20 - Governor signed
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Support
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HB 1179
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Acree / Boyd
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Primary Care Act
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1/22 – Introduced in House, Assigned to Judiciary & HHS
1/28 – Judiciary referred unamended to HHS
2/18 - HHS referred amended to APP
4/9 - APP postponed indefinitely
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Support
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HB 1191
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Pommer / Heath
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Eliminate Candy & Soda Sales Tax Exemption
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2/24 - Signed by Governor
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Support
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HB 1203
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Kerr A. / Steadman
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Group Life Ins Minimum No Requirement
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3/25 - Signed by Governor
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Monitor
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HB 1239
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Waller
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Defendant to Provide Notice of Defenses
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2/3 – Introduced in House, Assigned to JUD
2/25 - POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
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Oppose
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HB 1266
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Frangas
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Health Ins for Local Gov & Small Bus
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2/4 - Introduced in House, Assigned to Bus Affrs & Labor
3/3 – Bus Affrs & Labor referred amended to APP
4/23 - POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
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Support
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HB 1258
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Acree / Harvey
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Premium Discount Comply Treatment Plan
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2/4 - Introduced in House - Assigned to HHS
2/18 - POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
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Actively Oppose
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HB 1274
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Schafer / Johnston
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Out of Home Juvenile Transition Public School
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5/25 - Governor signed
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Oppose
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HB 1352
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Waller / Steadman, Mitchell |
Controlled Substance Crime Changes |
5/25 - Governor signed |
Support
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HB 1413
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Levy & May / Newell & Lundberg |
Limitation on Juvenile Direct File |
5/25 - Governor signed |
Support |
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SB
014
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Tochtrop / Solanos
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Family System Navigators
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3/31 - Governor signed
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Support
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SB
020
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Boyd / Massey
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Cover Colorado Provider Fee Schedule
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5/20 - Governor signed
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Support
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SB
066
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Hudak / Levy
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Reporting of Child Abuse or Neglect
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6/7 - Governor signed
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Support
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SB 115
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Tochtrop / Primavera
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Facilities May Donate Unused Meds
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4/13 - Governor signed
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Support
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SB 153
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Boyd
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Behavioral Health Screening & Efficiency
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5/26 - Governor signed
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Actively
Support
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SB 169
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Boyd / Riesberg
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Provider Fee Enhanced Match Use
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5/27 - Governor signed
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Support
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SB 175
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Boyd |
Relocate Provisions Behavioral Health
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4/29 - Signed by Governor
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Monitor |
HB 1010 – Expand Public/Private Initiatives
Fiscal Impact: No appropriation for FY 2010 – 2011, but may increase or decrease state costs in the future
Sponsors: Ferrandino/Morse
From the Long-term Fiscal Stability Commission. Using the existing public-private initiative program for the department of transportation as a model, this bill:
- Authorizes state agencies to enter into public-private initiative agreements with nonprofit entities; and
- Specifies evaluative criteria to be used by and procedures to be followed by the agencies in considering, evaluating, and accepting or rejecting unsolicited proposals for public-private initiatives.
HB 1032 – Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Frangas/Boyd
This bill requires the department of human services (department) to enter into a contract with a nonprofit entity for the provision of initial triage services through a coordinated and integrated crisis response system (system services) for persons experiencing mental health or substance abuse crisis. The system services that are contracted for may include, but need not be limited to, services for a telephone hotline operating 24 hours per day and 7 days per week, services provided through an integrated information technology system, and services provided by community-based crisis centers that provide short-term mental health services to persons in crisis. The department shall be responsible for specifying goals to be achieved by contracting for these system services and shall include specific performance goals and time frames for the provision of the system services.
HB 1160 – Wellness Incentives Rewards Outcomes
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Rice & Stephens / Mitchell
Current law allows health insurance carriers offering individual health coverage plans and small group plans and the board of directors of the CoverColorado program or carriers providing health benefit plans to CoverColorado participants to offer incentives or rewards to encourage persons covered under the plans to participate in a wellness and prevention program. The incentives or rewards can be based only on participation in a wellness and prevention program and cannot be tied to any particular outcome achieved by participating in the program.The bill repeals the restriction on incentives based on outcomes and allows carriers to base the incentives or rewards on satisfaction of a standard related to a health factor if the incentive or reward under the wellness and prevention program is consistent with the nondiscrimination requirements of the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996".
HB 1137 - People First Language in Laws
Fiscal Impact: None
Sponsors: Gardner B. / Steadman
The bill requires the use of people first language when drafting new or amended state statutes and administrative rules. People first language is language that refers to persons with disabilities as persons first. For example, people first language uses the term "persons with developmental disabilities" rather than "the developmentally disabled".
SB 153 – Behavioral Health Screening & Efficiency
Fiscal Impact: FY 09 - 10 $76,149, FY 10 - 11 $74,843
Sponsors: Boyd
The bill sets forth a legislative declaration concerning the importance of creating a comprehensive approach to behavioral health issues, including mental health and substance use disorders, and establishes the behavioral health transformation council to develop strategies for implementing a systemic transformation of the behavioral health care system. The governor is directed to appoint a behavioral health transformation council whose goal it is to implement a systemic transformation of the behavioral health system. The bill further establishes the behavioral health screening in the criminal justice system planning group (planning group) to determine a standard set of data elements and outlines the membership and duties of the planning group.
HB 1004 – Standardized Health Ins Information
Fiscal Impact: None
Sponsors: Massey / Foster
The bill requires the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) to adopt rules establishing standard formats for policy forms and explanation of benefit forms provided by health insurance carriers to consumers. The bill obligates the commissioner to seek input from the health insurance industry, consumers, and other stakeholders prior to adopting the rules. The bill requires carriers to comply with the standard format requirements starting July 1, 2011.
HB 1008 – No Gender Individual Health Ins Rates
Fiscal Impact: None
Sponsors: Schafer, McCann/Carroll, Schwartz
This bill prohibits carriers from using gender as a basis for varying premium rates for individual health insurance policies and declares premium rates based on gender to be unfairly discriminatory.
HB 1033 – Screening Brief Intervention Referral
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Massey / Boyd & Schwartz
This bill would add to the list of optional services for Medicaid recipients screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for alcohol and other substance abuse services.
HB 1061 - CO Medical Donation Program
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Merrifield / Tochtro
The bill establishes the Colorado medical donation program (program) for the purpose of allowing certain facilities to donate medications, medical devices, and medical supplies to eligible patients in Colorado. The program is modeled after the "Colorado Cancer Drug Repository Act" established by the general assembly in 2005. The state board of health (state board) is required to administer the program. Under the program, specific health facilities are allowed to donate, receive, and dispense approved medications, medical devices, and medical supplies to patients who are uninsured or underinsured. The bill specifies that participation by facilities is voluntary and that certain medications are exempted from the program. The state board is directed to promulgate rules to implement the program.
HB 1072 - Create Budget Stabilization Reserve Fund
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Court / Heath
The bill would create the state budget stabilization reserve fund and require investment earnings to be credited to the fund. It also would require increasing amounts of general fund money, measured as a percentage of annual general fund appropriations, to be credited to the fund at the end of each fiscal year until the fund balance can be maintained at 15% of general fund appropriations.
HB 1073 – Colorado 2-1-1 Checkoff
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Roberts / Sandoval
The bill creates the Colorado 2-1-1 first call for help fund (fund) in the state treasury. For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2010, but before January 1, 2013, the bill requires a voluntary contribution designation line for the fund to appear on state individual income tax return forms. The department of revenue (department) must determine annually the total amount designated to the fund and report that amount to the state treasurer and the general assembly. The state treasurer shall credit that amount to the fund. Finally, the general assembly must appropriate annually from the fund to the department its costs of administering contributions to the fund. All moneys remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall be transferred to Mile High United Way, a Colorado nonprofit organization, solely for use in operating 2-1-1 Colorado.
HB 1166 – Plain Language in Ins Policies
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Kefalas / Newell
The bill requires that automobile insurance policies, health benefit plans, limited benefit health insurance, dental plans, and long-term care plans that are issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2011, be written at or below the tenth-grade reading level. Current law does not require any readability level. The bill also requires the text of the policies and plans to be written in 12-point type or larger and to contain an index or table of contents if they are longer than 3 pages or 3,000 words.
Section 2 of the bill applies to automobile insurance policies.
Section 3 applies to health benefit plans, limited benefit health insurance, dental plans, and long-term care plans.
Section 1 makes the violation of either section 2 or 3 an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance.
HB 1191 – Eliminate Candy & Soda Sales Tax Exemption
Fiscal Impact: FY 09 – 2010 +$4million -$96,000, FY 2010 – 2011 +$18million, FY 2011 – 2012 +$18million
Sponsors: Pommer / Heath
Effective March 1, 2010, sections 1 and 2 of the bill:
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Narrow the existing state sales and use tax exemptions for food so that candy and soft drinks are no longer exempt from the state sales tax and use taxes;
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Authorize the department of revenue to promulgate rules that allow sellers of candy and soft drinks to, if necessary, reasonably estimate the amount of sales taxes due on their sales; and
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Make conforming amendments to prevent the narrowing of the exemption from affecting county, municipal, and other local government or political subdivision sales and use taxes.
HB 1266 Health Ins for Local Gov & Small Bus
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Frangas
The bill allows certain local governments, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations to offer participation in fully funded state group benefit plans for medical and dental coverages to their employees.
SB 014 - Family System Navigators
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Tochtrop / Solano
Under the current demonstration programs for system of care family advocates, the services are provided by family advocates. The bill will allow family system navigators to provide the same services through the demonstration programs. The bill makes necessary conforming amendments.
SB 020 – Cover Colorado Provider Fee Schedule
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Boyd/Massey
The bill authorizes the board of directors (board) of the Cover Colorado program to establish a schedule of fees for compensating health care providers that render covered health care services to Cover Colorado participants. The bill also prohibits health care providers from billing participants for costs in excess of the applicable fee on the fee schedule for services covered by the program.Additionally, the bill authorizes the board to maintain enrollment in the Cover Colorado program consistent with the program's financial resources.
SB 66 – Reporting of Child Abuse or Neglect
Fiscal Impact: None
Sponsors: Hudak / Levy
The bill clarifies that the requirement that certain persons report child abuse or neglect does not apply if a person does not have reasonable cause to know of or suspect the abuse or neglect until the child is 18 years of age or older.
SB 115 – Facilities May Donate Unused Medications
Fiscal Impact: None
Sponsors: Tochtrop / Primavera The bill deletes the requirement that medications be donated by a patient, resident, or the patient's or resident's next of kin before allowing a licensed health care facility to donate the unused medications to another patient in the facility or to a nonprofit entity. Currently, medications in the possession of a facility are destroyed when the patient dies or is discharged if the facility is not able to get permission for the donation.
SB 169 – Provider Fee Enhanced Match Use
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Boyd / Riesberg
For the 2009-10 and 2010-11 state fiscal years, the bill authorizes the amount of increased federal financial participation, pursuant to the federal "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" or other federal act, generated from appropriations out of the hospital provider fee cash fund to be used to offset other general fund appropriations for medicaid services. The bill recognizes that moneys in the health care expansion fund have been used to offset general fund expenditures for medicaid services. The bill specifies that the first $41.4 million of increased federal financial participation shall be transferred to the health care expansion fund and that any amount in excess of $41.4 million be appropriated for medicaid services.
HB 1203 – Group Life Ins Minimum No Requirement
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Kerr, A. / Steadman
Current law establishes the minimum number of persons that must be covered by a group life insurance policy. The current minimum number of persons required to be covered is 3. This bill deletes the minimum number requirement.
HB 1274 Out-of-home Juvenile Transition Public Schools
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Schafer / Johnston
The bill requires the department of human services to provide written notification to a school district, charter school, or institute charter school (school) 10 days prior to enrollment of a student who has been placed in out-of-home placement and is identified as potentially presenting a risk to himself or herself or the community. In a case where the student requires an emergency placement, the bill requires the department to provide written notification to the school 5 days prior to the student's enrollment. The school is encouraged to use the notification period to gather medical, mental health, sociological, and scholastic achievement data about the student from various sources to develop a transition plan for the student. The department of human services and the department of education are required to enter into a memorandum of understanding that includes, at a minimum:
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A consistent and uniform approach to sharing medical, mental health, sociological, and scholastic achievement data about students between a school district, charter school, or institute charter school and the county department of social services to better facilitate the creation of transition plans for those students and ensure the safety of the people in the school community;
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A plan for utilizing existing state and federal data and any existing information-sharing activities;
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An appeals process to follow if there is a disagreement between a school district, charter school, or institute charter school and the county department of social services regarding the enrollment of a student; and
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A plan for determining accountability concerning the use of the notification periods and the number of emergency placements that occur.
HB 1239 Defendant to Provide Notice of Defenses
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Waller
The bill requires a defendant who intends to offer evidence of a mental condition that prevented or impaired the formation of the required mental state for the crime to provide notice of that intent to the court and the prosecution. The court may order an evaluation of the defendant after receiving the notice. By putting the mental condition at issue, the defendant waives confidentiality and privilege related to his or her treatment for the mental condition.If a defendant intends to use the defense of intoxication, the bill requires that he or she provide notice to the court and the prosecution of that intent. The notice must include all substances taken and whether the intoxication was voluntary. By raising the defense of intoxication, the defendant waives confidentiality and privilege related to the substances.Both the prosecution and the defense must exchange the names, reports, and statements of the practitioners who provided the substance.
Actively Oppose
HB 1163 - Interstate Purchase Health Insurance
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Acree / Scheffel
The bill authorizes the commissioner of insurance (commissioner), on behalf of the state, to enter into multistate agreements with other states for the purpose of allowing a health coverage issuer (issuer) doing business in another state to offer, sell, or issue in Colorado an individual health coverage plan (plan) that is regulated by another state. The issuer is required to submit to the commissioner evidence of its financial viability, its ability to provide Colorado consumers adequate and appropriate access to health care providers and services, and its process for adequately handling Colorado consumer complaints regarding the plan. The commissioner will determine whether an issuer has satisfied these requirements and whether it is in the best interests of Colorado consumers to enter the multistate agreement. The bill specifies which state's laws would apply to a plan offered in Colorado by an out-of-state issuer and which state would enforce the applicable laws. Additionally, the issuer must provide Colorado consumers a notice regarding the effects of purchasing a plan from an out-of-state issuer.The bill allows individuals who relocate to Colorado to renew an existing individual health coverage plan issued in another state one time and to renew it more than once only if the state in which the plan was issued enters into a multistate agreement with Colorado.
HB 1258 – Premium Discount Comply Treatment Plan
Fiscal Impact:
Sponsors: Acree / Harvey
The bill permits insurance carriers offering individual and small group health plans to offer premium discounts to covered persons who comply with a treatment plan prescribed by a health care provider to manage and mitigate the covered person's chronic, behavioral health, or mental health illness, disease, or condition. The carrier is allowed to determine:
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The length of time that the covered person is to comply with the treatment plan in order to qualify for the discount;
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The type of discount and manner in which to implement the discount; and
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The method by which covered persons are to demonstrate compliance.
The bill allows the board of directors of the CoverColorado program or carriers providing health benefit plans to CoverColorado participants to also offer the premium discounts. The bill prohibits carriers from basing discounts on achievement of a particular outcome.
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