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      HOUSE BILL 10-1380
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Pommer, Ferrandino, Lambert;
      also SENATOR(S) White, Keller, Tapia.
      
      
      Concerning the use of moneys in the supplemental old age pension
           health and medical care fund to pay for services received
           by certain persons in the state medicaid program, and
           making an appropriation therefor.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  25.5-2-101 (3) (b) (III), Colorado Revised Statutes,
      is amended, and the said 25.5-2-101 (3) (b) is further amended BY THE
      ADDITION OF THE FOLLOWING NEW SUBPARAGRAPHS, to read:
      
           25.5-2-101.  Old age pension health and medical care fund -
      supplemental old age pension health and medical care fund - cash
      system of accounting - legislative declaration - rules - repeal. 
      (3) (b) (III)  This paragraph (b) is repealed, effective July 1, 2010.
      Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph (a) of this subsection
      (3) to the contrary, for fiscal year 2010-11, up to four million
      eight hundred fifty thousand dollars from the supplemental old
      age pension health and medical care fund may be used to offset
      general fund costs for persons sixty-five years of age or older
      who are served through the state medicaid program.
      
           (IV)  Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph (a) of this
      subsection (3) to the contrary, for fiscal year 2011-12, up to three
      million dollars from the supplemental old age pension health and
      medical care fund may be used to offset general fund costs for
      persons sixty-five years of age or older who are served through
      the state medicaid program.
      
           (V)  This paragraph (b) is repealed, effective July 1, 2012.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation - adjustments in 2010 long bill.
      (1)  For the implementation of this act, appropriations in the annual general
      appropriation act to the department of health care policy and financing, for
      the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, shall be adjusted as follows:
      
           (a)  The general fund appropriation for medical service premiums is
      decreased by four million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($4,850,000).
      
           (b)  The cash funds appropriation for medical service premiums is
      increased by four million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($4,850,000). 
      Said sum shall be from the supplemental old age pension health and medical
      care fund created in section 25.5-2-101 (3) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes.
      
           SECTION 3.  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.
      
      
      
      
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      Terrance D. Carroll                Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO