Second Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 14-0062.01 Brita Darling x2241  HOUSE BILL 14-1135
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Joshi,  Wright, Humphrey, Buck, Everett, Landgraf, Lawrence, Navarro, Nordberg, Rankin,
 Sonnenberg, Szabo, Wilson
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Lundberg, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Public Health Care & Human Services
 
 
 
 Appropriations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning restricting the use of general fund moneys for
            certain adult populations in the Colorado medical
            assistance program.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            The bill prohibits the use of general fund moneys for the new
       eligibility group in the medical assistance program that includes adults
       who are childless or without dependent children with incomes up to 133%
       of the federal poverty line.
            If there are insufficient moneys to fund this eligibility group
       without using general fund moneys, the state department shall amend the
       state plan to decrease income eligibility or benefits or to eliminate the
       eligibility group.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 25.5-5-201, amend
       (1) (p) as follows:
            25.5-5-201.  Optional provisions - optional groups - repeal.
       (1)  The federal government allows the state to select optional groups to
       receive medical assistance. Pursuant to federal law, any person who is
       eligible for medical assistance under the optional groups specified in this
       section shall receive both the mandatory services specified in sections
       25.5-5-102 and 25.5-5-103 and the optional services specified in sections
       25.5-5-202 and 25.5-5-203. Subject to the availability of federal financial
       aid funds, the following are the individuals or groups that Colorado has
       selected as optional groups to receive medical assistance pursuant to this
       article and articles 4 and 6 of this title:
            (p) (I)  Subject to federal approval, adults who are childless or
       without a dependent child in the home, as described in section 1902 (a)
       (10) (A) (i) (VIII) of the federal "Social Security Act", 42 U.S.C. sec.
       1396a, who have attained nineteen years of age but have not attained
       sixty-five years of age, and whose family income does not exceed one
       hundred thirty-three percent of the federal poverty line, adjusted for
       family size.
            (II) (A)  No general fund moneys shall be used for the
       eligibility group described in subparagraph (I) of this paragraph
       (p).
            (B)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (I) of
       this paragraph (p), if there are insufficient moneys available
       without using general fund moneys to fully fund the eligibility
       group described in subparagraph (I) of this paragraph (p), the
       state department shall amend the state plan to reduce the
       medical benefits offered or the income eligibility for this
       eligibility group or to eliminate this eligibility group.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes 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
       6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); 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 will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2014 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.