Second Regular Session
              Sixty-sixth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 08-0309.01 Jerry Barry          SENATE BILL 08-003
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Boyd,  Morse, and Shaffer
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Riesberg,  and Green
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Health and Human Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the family planning pilot program.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Health Care Task Force.  Directs that the percentage of the
       federal poverty level used to determine eligibility for the family planning
       pilot program be established in the request for a federal waiver.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  25.5-5-319 (1) and (2), Colorado Revised Statutes,
       are amended to read:
            25.5-5-319.  Family planning pilot program - rules - federal
       waiver - repeal.  (1)  There is hereby established a family planning pilot
       program for the provision of family planning services to categorically
       eligible individuals who are at or below one hundred fifty percent a
       percentage of the federal poverty level established pursuant to the
       federal waiver sought pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.
       The state board shall promulgate rules setting forth the family planning
       services to be provided under the family planning pilot program.
            (2)  The executive director of the state department, in consultation
       with the department of public health and environment, shall seek a federal
       waiver that is cost-neutral to the state general fund for the implementation
       of the family planning pilot program established pursuant to this section
       such that ten percent of the family planning services provided to
       low-income families pursuant to the program as described in subsection
       (1) of this section would be funded with state general fund moneys and
       ninety percent would be funded with federal matching funds.  In the
       federal waiver, the executive director shall not seek authority
       to waive or disregard the provisions of 42 U.S.C. sec. 1396a (a)
       (23) (B).
            SECTION 2.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds,
       determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
       preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.