NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/8/2016.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 16-192
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Lambert, Grantham, Steadman, Aguilar, Carroll, Garcia,
      Heath, Hodge, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, Merrifield, Newell, Todd;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Young, Hamner, Rankin, Becker K., Fields,
      Ginal, Kraft-Tharp, Lontine, Melton, Mitsch Bush, Pettersen, Rosenthal,
      Ryden, Vigil.
      
      
      Concerning a needs assessment tool for persons eligible for
           long-term services and supports, including persons with
           intellectual and developmental disabilities, 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, 25.5-6-104, add (5) as
      follows:
      
           25.5-6-104.  Long-term care placements - comprehensive and
      uniform client assessment instrument - legislative declaration -
      definitions - report - repeal. (5) (a)  On or before July 1, 2018,
      pursuant to the state department's ongoing stakeholder process
      relating to eligibility determination for long-term services and
      supports pursuant to this article, the state department shall
      select a needs assessment tool for persons receiving long-term
      services and supports, including persons with intellectual and
      developmental disabilities who are eligible for services pursuant
      to section 25.5-6-409. Once selected, the state department shall
      begin assessing client needs using the needs assessment tool as
      soon as practicable.
      
           (b)  Pursuant to the state department's ongoing
      stakeholder process relating to eligibility determination for
      long-term services and supports pursuant to this article, the
      state department shall develop or select the needs assessment
      tool in collaboration with persons with intellectual and
      developmental disabilities who receive services, legal guardians,
      case managers, and any other stakeholders as determined by the
      state department.
      
           (c)  The needs assessment tool developed or selected by the
      state department must include a reasonable reassessment
      process, set forth in state board rules, that allows a
      reassessment to be completed within thirty days after receipt of
      a request for reassessment made by a person with intellectual
      and developmental disabilities or his or her legal guardian.
      
           (d) (I)  Once the state department has selected a needs
      assessment tool, the state department shall report to the public
      health care and human services committee of the house of
      representatives, or its successor committee; the health and
      human services committee of the senate, or its successor
      committee; and the joint budget committee concerning the needs
      assessment tool selected and the level of stakeholder
      involvement in the process of selecting the tool.
      
           (II)  This paragraph (d) is repealed, effective July 1, 2019.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 25.5-10-207, amend
      (3) (b) and (3) (c); and add (3) (d) as follows:
      
           25.5-10-207.  Services and supports - waiting list reduction -
      cash fund - repeal. (3)  The general assembly may annually appropriate
      moneys in the intellectual and developmental disabilities services cash fund
      to the state department for:
      
           (b)  Administrative expenses for renewal and redesign of medicaid
      home- and community-based services waivers relating to intellectual and
      developmental disabilities; and
      
           (c)  Increasing system capacity for home- and community-based
      intellectual and developmental disabilities programs, services, and
      supports; and
      
           (d)  The development of an assessment tool pursuant to
      section 25.5-6-104 (5).
      
           SECTION 3.  Appropriation. (1)  For the 2016-17 state fiscal year,
      $138,787 is appropriated to the department of health care policy and
      financing for use by the executive director's office. This appropriation is
      from the intellectual and developmental disabilities services cash fund
      created in section 25.5-10-207 (1), C.R.S. To implement this act, the office
      may use this appropriation as follows:
      
           (a)  $58,134 for personal services, which amount is based on an
      assumption that the office will require an additional 1.8 FTE;
      
           (b)  $5,653 for operating expenses; and
      
           (c)  $75,000 for general professional services and special projects.
      
           (2)  For the 2016-17 state fiscal year, the general assembly
      anticipates that the department of health care policy and financing will
      receive $138,786 in federal funds to implement this act. The appropriation
      in subsection (1) of this section is based on the assumption that the
      department will receive this amount of federal funds to be used as follows:
      
           (a)  $58,133 for personal services;
      
           (b)  $5,653 for operating expenses; and
      
           (c)  $75,000 for general professional services and special projects.
      
           SECTION 4.  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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      Bill L. Cadman                Dickey Lee Hullinghorst
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Effie Ameen                            Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
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                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO