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First Regular Session | 75th General Assembly
Colorado General Assembly

PUBLIC
BILL SUMMARY For HB22-1267

SENATE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Date Apr 20, 2022       Location SCR 357

HB22-1267 - Lay Over
01:57:43 PM  
Senator Ginal and Senator Fields, co-prime bill sponsors, presented House Bill 22-1267, which requires the Office of Health Equity (OHE) in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to create a grant program by January 1, 2023, to provide culturally responsive training to health care professionals. The OHE must contract with a third-party administrator that will issue grant applications for nonprofit entities and statewide associations of health care providers that wish to develop the training, and submit a list of qualified applicants to the Health Equity Commission (commission). The commission will then select the grant recipients.
02:06:37 PM  
Mr. Steven Haden, representing self, testified in support of the bill.

Mx. Zamora Evans, representing self, testified in support of the bill.

Mr. Bob Bongiovanni, representing Colorado Individuals and Organizations Responding to HIV/AIDS, testified in support of the bill.

Dr. Dan Scales, representing Vivent Health, testified in support of the bill.

Committee members asked questions of the panel.
02:28:56 PM  
Mrs.  Nadine Bridges, representing One Colorado, testified in support of the bill.

Dr. Michael Neil, representing the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, testified in support of the bill.

Dr. William Crawley, representing self, testified in support of the bill.

Committee members asked questions of the panel.
02:40:50 PM  
Ms. Kathryn Vandegrift, representing self, testified in support of the bill.

Committee members asked questions of the panel.

Additional written testimony was submitted to the committee (Attachment B).
02:48:28 PM  
Senator Ginal and Senator Fields introduced and explained amendment L.005 (Attachment C).

02:49:28 PM
 Motion Adopt amendment L.005 (Attachment C).
Moved Ginal
Seconded
Buckner
Holbert
Jaquez Lewis Excused
Simpson
Smallwood
Ginal
Fields
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 1   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection
02:50:05 PM  
Senator Ginal and Senator Fields introduced and explained amendment L.006 (Attachment D).

Committee members discussed amendment L.006.

Kirsten ForrestaL, representing the office of legislative legal services, answered questions about amendment L.006.

02:56:32 PM
 Motion Adopt amendment L.006 (Attachment D).
Moved Ginal
Seconded
Buckner
Holbert
Jaquez Lewis Excused
Simpson
Smallwood
Ginal
Fields
YES: 0   NO: 0   EXC: 1   ABS:  0   FINAL ACTION:  Pass Without Objection
02:59:36 PM  
Madame Chair Fields laid the bill over until later in the meeting.