Second Regular Session
              Sixty-fourth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                INTRODUCED 
                                                           
 LLS NO. 04-0156.01 Michele Hanigsberg   HOUSE BILL 04-1027
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Vigil,  Coleman, Rhodes, and Williams T.
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Takis,  Anderson, Taylor, and Tupa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Health, Environment, Welfare, & Institutions
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the role of the comprehensive primary and
            preventive care grant program's advisory council.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Legislative Audit Committee.  Requires the comprehensive
       primary and preventive care grant program's advisory council to review
       and make recommendations to the department of health care policy and
       financing ("department") on the protocols related to awarding grants to
       qualified providers and to provide feedback to the department on the
       design and content of the grant application and the grant application and
       evaluation processes.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  26-4-1005, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       to read:
            26-4-1005.  Grant making process.  (1)  Any qualified provider
       desiring to participate in the program shall make application for a service
       grant to the state department in a form specified by rule of the state
       department.  The state department shall receive service grant applications
       from any qualified provider.  All applications shall be submitted and
       reviewed in accordance with grant procedures, criteria, and standards
       adopted by rule of the state department through the medical services
       board.
            (2)  Service grants awarded to qualified providers shall be used by
       such providers only to:
            (a)  Increase access to comprehensive primary care services for
       uninsured or medically indigent patients who are served by such
       providers;
            (b)  Create new services or augment existing services provided to
       uninsured or medically indigent patients; or
            (c)  Establish new sites that offer comprehensive primary care
       services in medically underserved areas of the state or to medically
       underserved populations.
            (3)  Service grants to qualified providers shall not be used:
            (a)  To supplant federal funds traditionally received by such
       qualified providers, but shall be used to supplement such funds;
            (b)  For land or real estate investments;
            (c)  To finance or satisfy any existing debt; or
            (d)  Unless the qualified provider specifically complies with the
       definition of qualified provider contained in section 26-4-1003 (5).
            (4) (a)  The executive director shall appoint an advisory council to
       review and make recommendations to the state department on the
       awarding of any service grants to qualified providers protocols
       related to awarding grants to qualified providers and to
       provide feedback to the state department on the design and
       content of the application and the application and evaluation
       processes.  The advisory council shall consist of the following members:
            (I) (a)  One employee of the state department;
            (II) (b)  One employee of the department of public health and
       environment;
            (III) (c)  A representative of a qualified provider;
            (IV) (d)  Two consumers who currently receive health care
       services from a qualified provider;
            (V) (e)  A health care provider who is not affiliated with a
       qualified provider or an agency of the state, but who has training and
       expertise in providing comprehensive primary care services to medically
       underserved populations; and
            (VI) (f)  A representative of a nonprofit, community-based health
       care organization or business.
            (b) (4.2)  All service grants shall be awarded within thirty days
       after approval by the state department.
            (c) (4.5)  The advisory council, appointed pursuant to paragraph
       (a) of this subsection (4), and The state department shall consider
       geographic distribution of funds among urban and rural areas in the state
       when making funding decisions.
            (5)  The state department shall:
            (a)  Develop regulations, procedures, and application forms to
       govern how service grants shall be awarded; and
            (b)  Develop an audit procedure to assure that service grant
       moneys are used to provide and expand coverage to uninsured and
       medically indigent patients.
            SECTION 2.  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 that is allowed for submitting
       a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state
       constitution (August 4, 2004, if adjournment sine die is on May 5, 2004);
       except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item,
       section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section,
       or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.