H_HI_2022A 05/04/2022 10:03:05 AM Committee Summary

Representaive Mullica, bill co-prime sponsor, gave opening comments on the bill.

A fact sheet was handed out to the committee (Attachment B).

Representative Lindsay, bill co-prime sponsor, introduced Senate Bill 22-187. In 2007, House Bill 07-1064 created a grant program in the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Department of Public Safety to provide up to $380,000 in state funds to counties to cover the costs of establishing programs to track persons at risk of wandering. Grant money was to be used for startup capital equipment costs and initial training of search personnel and inventory, including transmitters or any other related equipment or training required to implement the program. Funding has not been provided to this program since the initial years of its creation and it is not currently awarding grants. The bill expands the grant program, renamed as the Recovery Program for Persons Who Wander (recovery program), to include municipalities, any combination of counties and municipalities, and local government designees. The bill removes the award and funding limits and authorizes grant money to be expended for startup and maintenance costs of recovery programs, including equipment, training of search personnel, and outreach costs. It also renames the program’s cash fund as the Recovery Program for Persons Who Wander Cash Fund.

Representative Cutter, bill co-prime sponsor, gave opening comments on the bill.

The bill sponsors answered questions from the committee.

Ms. Coral Cosway, representing the Alzheimer's Association of Colorado, testified in support of the bill.

Representative Cutter and Representative Lindsay gave final comments on the bill.

Representative Lontine, bill sponsor, introduced Senate Bill 22-040. The bill creates a process for the actuarial review of proposed legislation that may impose a new health benefit coverage mandate or reduce or eliminate coverage mandated under health benefit plans. By September 1, 2022, the Division of Insurance (DOI) in the Department of Regulatory Agencies must facilitate a stakeholder meeting concerning actuarial review methodology. By November 1, 2022, the DOI must contract for actuarial support to conduct reviews of up to six bills; however, the DOI must have adequate resources within existing appropriations before it compensates an actuarial contractor.

Mr. Stuart Jenkins, representing Healthier Colorado, testified in support of the bill. Deb Judy, representing DOI, testified in support of the bill. Jason Hopfer, representing the Colorado Association of Health Plans, testified in an amend position on the bill. The panelists responded to questions from the committee.

Representative Lontine gave final comments on the bill.