First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0291.01 Brita Darling        SENATE BILL 11-048
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 King K.,  Brophy, Cadman, Scheffel
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Swalm and Joshi, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning exempting psychiatric hospitals from payment of
            the hospital provider fee.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Currently, psychiatric hospitals are exempt from payment of the
       hospital provider fee.  The bill clarifies that psychiatric hospitals shall
       remain exempt from payment of the hospital provider fee. 
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  The introductory portion to 25.5-4-402.3 (3) (c) (I)
       and 25.5-4-402.3 (3) (c) (I) (A), Colorado Revised Statutes, are amended
       to read:
            25.5-4-402.3.  Providers - hospital - provider fees - legislative
       declaration - federal waiver - fund created - rules - advisory board -
       repeal.  (3)  Hospital provider fee.  (c) (I)  In accordance with the
       redistributive method set forth in 42 CFR 433.68 (e) (1) and (e) (2), the
       state department may seek a waiver from the broad-based provider fees
       requirement or the uniform provider fees requirement, or both.  Subject
       to federal approval and to minimize the financial impact on certain
       hospitals, the state department shall exempt from payment of the
       provider fee psychiatric hospitals, as licensed by the department
       of public health and environment, and, in consultation with the
       advisory board, may exempt from payment of the provider fee certain
       types of hospitals, including but not limited to:
            (A)  Psychiatric hospitals, as licensed by the department of public
       health and environment;
            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
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); 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 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.