First Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. R13-0981.01 Jane Ritter x4342           HJR13-1028
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Young and May, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Aguilar, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Public Health Care & Human Services
 
 
 
 Legislative Council
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                  HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 13-1028 
       Concerning creation of an interim committee to study the
            system of long-term services.
       
       
            WHEREAS, The Colorado Community Living Advisory Group,
       appointed through Executive Order 2012-027, is charged with
       considering and recommending improvements to the Colorado long-term
       services and supports system to ensure responsiveness, flexibility,
       accountability, and increased options for self-direction; and
       
            WHEREAS, Subcommittees of the long-term care advisory
       committee determined that certain basic values must underlie system
       redesign and communicated that position to the Colorado Community
       Living Advisory Group; and
       
            WHEREAS, The Colorado Community First Choice Council in the
       department of health care policy and financing supports and endorses the
       same values; and
       
            WHEREAS, Recognizing these basic values would result in a
       transformed system of long-term services and supports for all eligible
       children and adults; and
       
            WHEREAS, A redesign of the long-term services and supports
       system is necessary and needs to work from the recommendations made
       by the groups named in this resolution, as well as input from interested
       stakeholders; now, therefore,
       
            Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth
       General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:
       
            (1)  That there shall be a legislative committee, hereinafter referred
       to as the "committee", that shall meet in the interim after the first regular
       session of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly to study and analyze ways
       to redesign the system of long-term services and supports, using the core
       values recommended by the Colorado Community Living Advisory
       Committee and others;
       
            (2) (a)  That the committee shall consist of 8 members, appointed
       as follows:
       
            (I)  Two members of the House of Representatives who serve on
       the Public Health Care and Human Services Committee, one appointed
       by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and one appointed by the
       minority leader of the House of Representatives;
       
            (II)  Two members of the Senate who serve on the Health and
       Human Services Committee, one appointed by the President of the Senate
       and one appointed by the minority leader of the Senate;
       
            (III)  Two additional members of the House of Representatives,
       one appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives and
       one appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; and
       
            (IV)  Two additional members of the Senate, one appointed by the
       majority leader of the Senate and one appointed by the minority leader of
       the Senate;
       
            (b)  That the individuals making the appointments shall make
       appointments to the committee within 45 days after the effective date of
       this resolution;
       
            (3)  That the committee may solicit and accept reports from the
       Colorado Community Living Advisory Group and public testimony and
       consider any regulatory or statutory changes on the issue of redesigning
       the long-term services and supports system in Colorado;
       
            (4)  That the committee shall meet no more than 6 times during the
       2013 interim in October. Each meeting of the committee must include an
       opportunity for public comment on items related to the committee's
       agenda;
       
            (5)  That the committee shall submit a written report of its findings
       and recommendations, including specific recommendations for a
       redesigned system of long-term services and supports, to the Public
       Health Care and Human Services Committee of the House of
       Representatives and the Health and Human Services Committee of the
       Senate, or any successor committees, on or before December 15, 2013;
       
            (6)  That any member of the committee may sponsor legislation
       recommended for introduction by the committee, subject to the limitations
       imposed by the Joint Rules of the House of Representatives and the
       Senate regarding interim committee legislation;
       
            (7)  That the members of the committee shall not be compensated
       for attendance at meetings of the committee; and
       
            (8)  That the staff of the Legislative Council and the Office of
       Legislative Legal Services shall be available to assist the committee in
       carrying out its duties.