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Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. 98­0205.01 JGG HOUSE BILL 98­1023

STATE OF COLORADO

BY REPRESENTATIVES Kreutz, Agler, Lawrence, Musgrave, and Pankey;

also SENATORS Lacy and Weddig.

REENGROSSED

HEWI

A BILL FOR AN ACT

CONCERNING THE IMPOSITION OF A RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR THE OLD AGE PENSION, AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.

Bill Summary

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.)

Interim Committee on Old Age Pension Program. Adds the requirement that an applicant for the old age pension must be a resident of the state of Colorado for at least 5 years immediately preceding the application for an old age pension. Applies such residency requirement to persons applying for the old age pension on or after the effective date of the act.


Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION 1.  The introductory portion to 26­2­111 (2) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

26­2­111. Eligibility for public assistance. (2)  Old age pension. (a)  Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this subsection (2), public assistance in the form of the old age pension shall be granted to any person who meets the requirements of subsection (1) of this section, WHO HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE STATE OF COLORADO FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE APPLICATION FOR AN OLD AGE PENSION, and WHO MEETS any one of the following requirements:

SECTION 2. Appropriation - adjustments to the 1998 long bill. (1) For the implementation of this act, appropriations made in the annual general appropriation act for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, shall be adjusted as follows:

(a) The appropriation to the department of human services, office of information technology services, for the client-oriented information network, is increased by two thousand two hundred ten dollars ($2,210). Said sum shall be from the old age pension fund.

(b) The appropriation to the department of human services, for county administration, is increased by sixty-eight thousand eight hundred twenty-one dollars ($68,821). Of said sum, fifty-five thousand fifty-seven dollars ($55,057) shall be from the general fund, and thirteen thousand seven hundred sixty-four dollars ($13,764) shall be from cash funds exempt.

(c) The appropriation to the department of human services, division of self-sufficiency, for the old age pension program, is decreased by five hundred ninety-three thousand five hundred fifty-four dollars ($593,554). Said sum shall be from the old age pension fund.

(d) The appropriation to the department of human services, division of self-sufficiency, for the aid to the needy disabled state supplement grant program, is increased by one hundred ninety-two thousand two hundred seventy-one dollars ($192,271). Of said sum, one hundred fifty-three thousand eight hundred seventeen dollars ($153,817) shall be from the general fund, and thirty-eight thousand four hundred fifty-four dollars ($38,454) shall be from cash funds exempt.

(e) The appropriation to the department of human services, division of self-sufficiency, for the aid to the needy disabled state-only grant program, is increased by two hundred thirty-one thousand six hundred sixty dollars ($231,660). Of said sum, one hundred eighty-five thousand three hundred twenty-eight dollars ($185,328) shall be from the general fund, and forty-six thousand three hundred thirty-two dollars ($46,332) shall be from cash funds exempt.

(f) The appropriation to the department of health care policy and financing, medical programs, medical services, for services for old age pensioners (OAP-A), is decreased by nine million seven hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred sixty-eight dollars ($9,729,668). Of said sum, four million seven hundred eighty-five thousand fifty dollars ($4,785,050) shall be from the general fund, and four million nine hundred forty-four thousand six hundred eighteen dollars ($4,944,618) shall be from federal funds.

(g) The appropriation to the department of health care policy and financing, medical programs, medical services, for services for old age pensioners (OAP-B), is decreased by four hundred eighty-nine thousand four hundred eight dollars ($489,408). Of said sum, two hundred forty thousand six hundred ninety-one dollars ($240,691) shall be from the general fund, and two hundred forty-eight thousand seven hundred seventeen dollars ($248,717) shall be from federal funds.

(h) The appropriation to the department of health care policy and financing, medical programs, medical services, for the old age pension state medical program, is decreased by one hundred ten thousand seventy-four dollars ($110,074). Said sum shall be from the old age pension health and medical fund.

SECTION 3.  Effective date ­ applicability. (1)  This act shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety­day 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; 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.

(2)  The provisions of this act shall apply to persons applying for the old age pension on or after the applicable effective date of this act.