SB 25-7

Senate Bill 25-7 in Colorado changes how health insurance is provided to low-income individuals and families who are not legally residing in the U.S. The bill stops providing full health coverage for pregnant women, postpartum women, and children who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid or other state programs if they had legal immigration status. It also ends certain state-funded health programs and outreach efforts aimed at helping these groups get insurance. Since the bill has been signed into law, it means that these changes are now in effect, impacting immigrants without lawful residency by limiting their access to subsidized health insurance coverage through state programs.

Official Summary

Current law extends health insurance coverage to various people, including low-income pregnant and postpartum people and children in low-income families, whose immigration status would otherwise make them ineligible for coverage under state-federal programs or would limit the coverage's scope or duration. Other expansions make state-subsidized individual health insurance coverage available for certain people, regardless of immigration status. The bill modifies several provisions related to these coverage expansions by:Prohibiting the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) from reimbursing a health-care provider, entity, or facility for providing medical services to a person who is not a lawful resident;Eliminating full health insurance coverage for pregnant and postpartum people who would be eligible for medicaid or the children's basic health plan if not for their immigration status;Eliminating full health insurance coverage for children who would be eligible for medicaid or the children's basic health plan if not for their immigration status;Repealing the state reproductive health-care program, the medical assistance program, and the state children's basic health plan (state-funded programs) that were established to provide expanded coverage;Halting outreach to and enrollment of eligible groups into new coverage options;Removing HCPF's potential to spend in excess of an authorized amount for the state-funded programs; andExcluding immigrants who are not lawfully residing in the state from state-subsidized individual health insurance coverage available through the health insurance affordability enterprise.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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