Colorado 2020 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 20-033 — Allow Medicaid Buy-in Program After Age 65

Last action — Governor Signed

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2020. Enacted.

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Advancing 54% · moderate confidence

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  • Enacted

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  • 3 sponsors

    3 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

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Summary

Subject to federal authorization and funding, the act authorizes working adults with disabilities who are 65 years of age or older to continue participating in the existing medicaid buy-in program (program). The act directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to seek federal authorization to expand the program to include individuals in the work incentives eligibility group, which is defined, to match federal eligibility criteria, as individuals who are age 65 years or older with a disability who, except for assets or income, would be eligible for the supplemental security income program. The department shall submit necessary state plan amendments to implement the program and must implement the program by July 1, 2022. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, the act appropriates $50,000 from the general fund to the department, with $50,000 anticipated in federal funds. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

147 added · 126 removed

Plain-language change summary

The bill SB 20-033 changes the language related to seeking federal authorization for implementing Medicaid eligibility for individuals aged sixty-five and older who are part of the work incentives eligibility group. The updated version removes the phrase “except as provided in subsection (5)(b) of this section” and clarifies that the State Department must submit a state plan amendment to use less restrictive income and resource criteria. This matters because it indicates a potential shift in how income and resource limits are applied to individuals, which could affect their access to Medicaid.

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Second Regular Session Seventy-second General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO ENGROSSED This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted on Second Reading in the House of Introduction LLS NO.
Second Regular Session Seventy-second General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO REENGROSSED This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted in the House of Introduction LLS NO.
20-0562.01 Brita Darling x2241 SENATE BILL 20-033 SENATE SPONSORSHIP Tate and Fields, HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Lontine, Senate Committees House Committees Health & Human Services Finance Appropriations A BILL FOR AN ACT C ONCERNING ACCESS TO THE MEDICAID BUY IN PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN WORKING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES WHO HAVE BECOME INELIGIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM DUE TO AGE ,AND ,IN CONNECTION THEREWITH , MAKING AN APPROPRIATION .
20-0562.01 Brita Darling x2241 SENATE BILL 20-033 SENATE SPONSORSHIP Tate and Fields, Bridges, Cooke, Crowder, Donovan, Garcia, Gardner, Ginal, Gonzales, Hansen,Hisey,Holbert,Lee,Lundeen,Moreno,Pettersen,Priola,Rankin,Rodriguez,Scott, Smallwood, Sonnenberg, Story, Todd, Winter, Woodward, Zenzinger HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Lontine, Senate Committees House Committees Health & Human Services Finance Appropriations A BILL FOR AN ACT C ONCERNING ACCESS TO THE MEDICAID BUY IN PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN WORKING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES WHO HAVE BECOME INELIGIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM DUE TO AGE ,AND , IN CONNECTION THEREWITH ,MAKING AN APPROPRIATION .
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This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does notreflectanyamendmentsthatmaybesubsequentlyadopted.Ifthisbill passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at http://leg.colorado.gov.) The bill authorizes working adults with disabilities who are over g years of age to continue participating in the existing medicaid buy-in d program as a state-funded program, without federal matching money, if, e 0 T R , A 2 1 Shading denotes HOUSE amendment.
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E d c Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing statute.
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Action History

  1. Governor Signed

  2. Signed by the President of the Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House

  4. Sent to the Governor

  5. Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass

  6. House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments

  7. House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole

  8. House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee

  9. House Second Reading Laid Over to 06/08/2020 - No Amendments

  10. House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations

  11. House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance

  12. Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments

  13. Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services

  14. Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee

  15. Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole

  16. Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations

  17. Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance

  18. Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed

  19. Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services

Sponsors

  • Susan Lontine · Primary
  • Rhonda Fields · Primary
  • Jack Tate · Primary

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Sponsors (3)

  • Susan Lontine
  • Rhonda Fields
  • Jack Tate

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (98)

98 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 20-033 do?
Subject to federal authorization and funding, the act authorizes working adults with disabilities who are 65 years of age or older to continue participating in the existing medicaid buy-in program (program). The act directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to seek federal authorization to expand the program to include individuals in the work incentives eligibility group, which is defined, to match federal eligibility criteria, as individuals who are age 65 years or older with a disability who, except for assets or income, would be eligible for the supplemental security income program. The department shall submit necessary state plan amendments to implement the program and must implement the program by July 1, 2022. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, the act appropriates $50,000 from the general fund to the department, with $50,000 anticipated in federal funds. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Who sponsors SB 20-033?
SB 20-033 is sponsored by Susan Lontine, Rhonda Fields, and Jack Tate.
What is the current status of SB 20-033?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2020. Enacted.
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