Bill Summary for Bill Number HB13-1088

Date: 02/05/2013

Final
BILL SUMMARY for HB13-1088

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, INSURANCE & ENVIRONMENT

Votes: View-->	Action Taken:
Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment I) as amended by Conceptional amendment to amend L.002 (Attachment Refer House Bill 13-1088, as amended, to the Commi	PASS PASS PASS

12:47 PM -- House Bill 13-1088

Representative Fields presented House Bill 13-1088, concerning modifications of the work of the Department of Public Health and Environment regarding health disparities to include health equity. The bill renames the Office of Health Disparities in the Department of Public Health and Environment to the Office of Health Equity, adds duties to the Office of Health Equity, replaces the Minority Health Advisory Commission with the Health Equity Commission, adds two members to the current 13-member commission, and requires that a review committee make recommendations on applications required by the Health Disparities Grant Program. The bill repeals the Interagency Health Disparities Leadership Council. Representative Fields responded to questions from the committee about the bill.

12:51 PM -- Suzy Shimasaki, Colorado Public Health Association, testified in support of the bill. She discussed the role of public health professionals and health equity.

12:55 PM -- Aubrey Hill, Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved, testified in support of the bill. She provided a handout to the committee (Attachment E). She discussed statistics and factors about the medically underserved. Ms. Hill responded to questions from the committee about the data presented in the handout.

130205 AttachE.pdf

01:01 PM -- Brad Clark, One Colorado, testified in support of the bill. He discussed the difficulties for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) Coloradoans to access LGBT friendly health care and the health disparities in the LGBT community. Mr. Clark responded to a question from Representative Schafer about the work of One Colorado to address health issues in the LGBT community. Mr. Clark provided a brochure to the committee (Attachment F).

130205 AttachF.pdf

01:06 PM -- Dr. Christopher Urbina and Lorena Zimmer, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, testified in support of the bill. Ms. Zimmer provided two handouts to the committee (Attachments G and H). Ms. Zimmer discussed the ability of the department to receive grants and to address health disparities. Dr. Urbina responded to questions from the committee about the bill.

130205 AttachG.pdf

130205 AttachH.pdf

01:17 PM -- Cerise Hunt, Interagency Health Disparities Leadership Council, testified in support of the bill. She discussed the Health Equity Commission created by the bill. Representative Schafer commented on Ms. Hunt's testimony.

01:22 PM

Representative Fields presented amendment L.002 (Attachment I). The committee dialogued about the amendment. Eliza Park, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, was asked to the table to address questions about amendment L.002.

130205 AttachI.pdf
BILL:	HB13-1088
TIME:	01:29:56 PM
MOVED:	Primavera
MOTION:	Conceptional amendment to amend L.002 (Attachment I) to add "aging population" on page 2, line 11; page 3, line 27; and page 7, line 20. The motion passed on a vote of 6-5.
SECONDED:	Schafer
		VOTE
	Conti	No
	Fields	Yes
	Ginal	Yes
	Humphrey	No
	Joshi	No
	Primavera	Yes
	Stephens	No
	Swalm	No
	Young	Yes
	Schafer	Yes
	McCann	Yes

YES: 6 NO: 5 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

BILL:

HB13-1088

TIME:

01:30:01 PM

MOVED:

Fields

MOTION:

Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment I) as amended by the conceptional amendment. The motion passed on a vote of 6-5.

SECONDED:

Schafer

VOTE

Conti

Fields

Yes

Ginal

Yes

Humphrey

Joshi

Primavera

Yes

Stephens

Swalm

Young

Yes

Schafer

Yes

McCann

Yes

YES: 6 NO: 5 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

01:32 PM

Representative Fields made concluding remarks on the bill.


BILL:	HB13-1088
TIME:	01:33:38 PM
MOVED:	Fields
MOTION:	Refer House Bill 13-1088, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 6-5.
SECONDED:	Primavera
		VOTE
	Conti	No
	Fields	Yes
	Ginal	Yes
	Humphrey	No
	Joshi	No
	Primavera	Yes
	Stephens	No
	Swalm	No
	Young	Yes
	Schafer	Yes
	McCann	Yes

Final YES: 6 NO: 5 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

01:34 PM

Representative McCann adjourned the committee.