HB 26-1155
signedDepartment of Health Care Policy & Financing Supplemental
Plain-English Summary
AI-generatedHouse Bill 26-1155, which has been signed into law, provides additional funding to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. This extra money is intended to support health care programs in Colorado. The bill affects anyone who relies on state-funded health care services. Since it has been signed, the supplemental appropriations are now official and the department can use this new funding to enhance or maintain its health care programs.
Official Summary
The 2025 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of healthcare policy and financing. The federal funds portion of the appropriation is increased. A new appropriation to the department for overexpenditures of line item appropriations in the 2024 long bill is made. Amends Senate Bill 25-290, concerning the creation of the provider stabilization fund to make provider stabilization payments to eligible safety net providers that serve low-income, uninsured populations in the state, to increase the amount appropriated to the department from the provider stabilization fund for provider stabilization payments related to other medical services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Details
- Chamber
- House
- First action
- 2026-02-27
- Latest action
- 2026-02-06
- Last action desc.
- Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
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Sponsors
- Emily Sirota (sponsor) · Democratic
- Jeff Bridges (sponsor) · Democratic
- Kyle Brown (sponsor) · Democratic
- Judy Amabile (sponsor) · Democratic
- Andy Boesenecker (cosponsor) · Democratic
- Monica Duran (cosponsor) · Democratic
- Julie McCluskie (cosponsor) · Democratic