Date: 04/15/2014

Final
BILL SUMMARY for HB14-1368

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH CARE & HUMAN SERVICES

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Refer House Bill 14-1368 to the Committee on ApproPASS



01:33 PM -- HB14-1368

Representatives May and Gerou introduced House Bill 14-1368. The bill establishes a plan and appropriates funds to transfer youths who are 18 to 20 years of age and who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) into adult services under Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) in the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Representative May provided background information on the bill and discussed how the youth affected by the bill currently receive services through the child welfare system. The bill sets forth criteria for transition planning and instructs the State Board of Human Services and the Medical Services Board to promulgate any rules necessary to guide the transition. Representative May responded to questions from the committee regarding the appropriations required by the bill.

01:39 PM -- Jodi Walters, Imagine!, Alliance, and Foster Care Adoption Agencies of Colorado, testified in support of the bill. She stated that there is a lack of trained providers to serve children with IDD in the child welfare system, and that many of the children with IDD currently served in the child welfare system shouldn't have been there in the first place. She stated that the goal is to eventually move the entire population of children with IDD from the child welfare system.

01:42 PM -- Marijo Rymer, Arc of Colorado, testified in support of the bill. She spoke regarding the bill's provisions that allow for flexibility regarding the transition of youth from the child welfare system to adult HCBS services. She spoke regarding the practice in which a family with a child with IDD must relinquish the child to the child welfare system in order for the child to receive services.

01:46 PM -- Emily Blanford, Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, testified in support of the bill. She spoke regarding the process the department used to identify the individuals with IDD who are in the child welfare system.

01:48 PM -- Andrew Johnson, Department of Human Services, responded to questions from the committee regarding how many children aged 18 to 20 with IDD are in the child welfare system.

01:51 PM

Representative May gave concluding remarks regarding the bill.

BILL:HB14-1368
TIME: 01:51:52 PM
MOVED:Young
MOTION:Refer House Bill 14-1368 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 12-0, with one member excused.
SECONDED:Singer
VOTE
Conti
Yes
Everett
Yes
Ginal
Yes
Joshi
Yes
Landgraf
Excused
McCann
Yes
Schafer
Yes
Singer
Yes
Stephens
Yes
Tyler
Yes
Wilson
Yes
Young
Yes
Primavera
Yes
Final YES: 12 NO: 0 EXC: 1 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS