SB 25-270 CO

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The act repeals the existing nursing facility provider fee and intermediate care facility service fee, effective May 1, 2025, and provides that, beginning on May 1, 2025, and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) will charge and collect a new healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee and a new healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee that function similarly to the repealed fees. The act creates a facility provider fee enterprise support board within CHASE for the purpose of supporting the existing enterprise with the implementation of the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee and the healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee. In exchange for payment of the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee, CHASE will provide certain business services to nursing facility providers to sustain or increase reimbursement rates and make supplemental medicaid payments to nursing facility providers. In exchange for payment of the healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee, CHASE will provide certain business services to intermediate care facility providers for individuals with intellectual disabilities for the purposes of maintaining the quality and continuity of services provided by intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Because CHASE is an enterprise for purposes of the Taxpayer's Act of Rights, its revenue does not count against the state fiscal year spending limit. The act also makes conforming amendments and, for clarity, renames the existing healthcare affordability and sustainability fee and healthcare affordability and sustainability fund to be the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee and the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund. For the 2025-26 state fiscal year, $62,986,221 is appropriated from the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee cash fund to HCPF and $2,150,281 is appropriated from the healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee cash fund to HCPF. The act also decreases in corresponding amounts appropriations to HCPF from other cash funds and modifies appropriations to HCPF for the 2024-25 state fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

• Jeff Bridges Democratic · primary
• Judy Amabile Democratic · primary
• Shannon Bird · primary
• Emily Sirota Democratic · primary

1. Apr 30, 2025 Governor Signed · executive
2. Apr 29, 2025 Sent to the Governor · executive
3. Apr 29, 2025 Signed by the Speaker of the House · lower
4. Apr 29, 2025 Signed by the President of the Senate · upper
5. Apr 23, 2025 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass · upper
6. Apr 23, 2025 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass · lower
7. Apr 11, 2025 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee · upper
8. Apr 10, 2025 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · lower
9. Apr 9, 2025 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor · lower
10. Apr 8, 2025 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole · lower
11. Apr 3, 2025 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations · lower
12. Apr 3, 2025 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · upper
13. Apr 2, 2025 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee · upper
14. Apr 1, 2025 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole · upper
15. Mar 31, 2025 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations · upper