NOTE:  This bill has been prepared for the signature of the appropriate legislative
officers and the Governor.  To determine whether the Governor has signed the bill
or taken other action on it, please consult the legislative status sheet, the legislative
      history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 10-1041
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Acree, Looper, Primavera, Todd, Apuan,
      Fischer, Frangas, Gerou, Kagan, Kefalas, Kerr J., Labuda, Middleton,
      Scanlan, Schafer S., Solano, Summers;
      also SENATOR(S) Mitchell, Keller, Boyd, Gibbs, Heath, Hodge, Hudak,
      Kester, Morse, Newell, Shaffer B., Spence, Steadman, Tapia, Tochtrop.
      
      
      Concerning applications for home- and community-based services
           waivers for children as part of the medicaid eligibility
           modernization.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  25.5-4-205 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
      
           25.5-4-205.  Application - verification of eligibility -
      demonstration project - rules - repeal.  (1) (a.7)  As part of the
      medicaid eligibility modernization, the department is authorized
      to create a universal application for single point of entry for
      home- and community-based services waivers for children.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
      shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      11, 2010, if adjournment sine die is on May 12, 2010); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2010
      and shall take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote
      thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Terrance D. Carroll                Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      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