NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/10/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1321
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Young, Danielson, Duran, Esgar, Fields,
      Garnett, Ginal, Kraft-Tharp, Lee, Lontine, Mitsch Bush, Pettersen, Ryden,
      Vigil, Williams, Pabon, Primavera, Hullinghorst;
      also SENATOR(S) Merrifield and Tate, Aguilar, Carroll, Crowder, Heath,
      Johnston, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, Newell, Steadman.
      
      
      Concerning medicaid buy-in for persons eligible for certain
           medicaid waivers, and, in connection therewith, making an
           appropriation.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 25.5-6-1403, add (4)
      as follows:
      
           25.5-6-1403.  Waivers and amendments. (4)  The state
      department shall seek federal authorization to implement a
      medicaid buy-in program for adults who are eligible to receive
      home- and community-based services pursuant to the supported
      living services waiver; the persons with brain injury waiver, part
      7 of this article; and the spinal cord injury waiver pilot program,
      part 13 of this article.  The state department shall prepare and
      submit any requests necessary for federal approval not later
      than January 1, 2017, and shall implement the medicaid buy-in
      program pursuant to this subsection (4) not later than three
      months after receiving federal approval.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation. (1)  For the 2016-17 state fiscal year,
      $13,803 is appropriated to the department of health care policy and
      financing for use by the executive director's office. This appropriation is
      from the hospital provider fee cash fund created in section 25.5-4-402.3 (4)
      (a), C.R.S. To implement this act, the office may use this appropriation for
      Medicaid management information system maintenance and projects.
      
           (2)  For the 2016-17 state fiscal year, the general assembly
      anticipates that the department of  health care policy and financing will
      receive $124,224 in federal funds for Medicaid management information
      system maintenance and projects. The appropriation in subsection (1) of
      this section is based on the assumption that the department will receive this
      amount of federal funds.
      
           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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      Dickey Lee Hullinghorst                Bill L. Cadman
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                            Effie Ameen
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
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                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO