H_PHC_2017A 01/24/2017 Committee Summary

01:33 PM -- HB 17-1046



Representative Singer called the meeting to order. A memorandum was distributed to the committee members (Attachment A).



170124 AttachA.pdf



Representative Lebsock, prime sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1046 to the committee. The bill updates terms in statute that refer to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities using outdated terminology. Under current law, the terms mentally retarded, mentally deficient person, mental deficiency, and mentally deficient are used; this bill replaces those terms with intellectual and developmental disability. Additionally, it replaces mental defect with mental illness, and physical defect with physical disability.



01:35 PM -- Marijo Rymer, The Arc of Colorado, testified in support of the bill.



01:36 PM -- Linda Rinehart, League of Women Voters - Colorado, testified in support of the bill. Representative Lebsock responded to Ms. Rinehart's comments.









01:42 PM -- Thomas Perille, Protect Life Coalition, testified in support of the bill. Mr. Perille distributed a handout to the committee (Attachment B).



170124 AttachB.pdf

01:45 PM -- HB 17-1020



Representative Singer, prime sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1020 to the committee. The bill, recommended by the Legislative Oversight Committee Concerning the Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems (MICJS), modifies current law concerning funding and staff support for the MICJS task force. The bill allows state agencies to receive and expend gifts, grants, and donations to the task force and permits the Colorado Department of Human Services to provide staff assistance to the task force.



01:47 PM -- Camille Harding, Colorado Department of Human Services, testified in support of the bill and offered to answer any questions about the bill.

01:52 PM -- HB 17-1024



Representative Singer and the committee discussed action on House Bill 17-1024 without the presence of the bill sponsor. House Bill 17-1024, recommended by the Statutory Revision Committee, relocates laws governing the Commission on Family Medicine, an advisory body within the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, from Title 25 to Title 25.5 in the Colorado Revised Statues. It also makes conforming amendments.



01:58 PM -- Suzanne Bragg-Gamble, Commission on Family Medicine, testified in support of the bill.

01:59 PM



The committee recessed briefly.





02:01 PM -- HB 17-1060



Representative Singer called the meeting back to order.



Representative Thurlow, prime sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1060 to the committee. A handout was distributed to the committee (Attachment C). The bill, recommended by the Statutory Revision Committee, repeals various reporting requirements for the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing that are scheduled for repeal, and adds a repeal date for statutes that are scheduled for repeal. Additionally, it indefinitely continues five reporting requirements that were scheduled for repeal. Representative Thurlow explained the charge and work of the year-round Statutory Revision Committee.



170124 AttachC.pdf



02:10 PM



Representative Arndt continued to discuss the Statutory Revision Committee with the committee.



02:14 PM



Committee members commented on the bill.







02:15 PM



Representative Thurlow described amendment L.001 (Attachment D) to the committee.



170124 AttachD.pdf

02:22 PM



Representative Singer adjourned the meeting.