HB 25-1085

House Bill 25-1085, which has been signed into law in Colorado, allows county commissioners to appoint state, county, or city officials who are already elected or appointed to serve on public hospital boards. The bill also updates the requirements for how often these hospital boards need to organize and operate (now annually instead of every January), removes a monthly visit requirement for trustees, and pushes back the deadline for trustees to certify funding needs from October 1st to December 1st each year. This change affects how public hospitals are governed and funded in Colorado. Since it has been signed into law, this bill is now active and being implemented.

Official Summary

The act allows a board of county commissioners to appoint an individual who is already an elected or appointed state, county, or city official to a public hospital board of trustees (hospital board). Before passage of the act, a hospital board was required organize and operate on the second Tuesday of each January. The act changes that requirement to mandate that a hospital board organize and operate on an annual basis. The act eliminates a requirement that one of the trustees of a hospital board must visit and examine the hospital at least twice each month. The act also changes the deadline by which a hospital board must certify to a board of county commissioners the amount necessary to maintain and improve the hospital for the ensuing year from October 1 to December 1. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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