Stabilization Payments for Safety Net Providers

Changed the document header from 'REVISED' to 'PREAMENDED' to indicate this is an unofficial version with committee amendments not yet adopted on second reading.

Removed several cosponsors from the Senate sponsorship list (Coleman, Gonzales J., Kipp, Liston, Lundeen, Marchman, Pelton R., Rodriguez, Weissman, Winter F.).

Modified the House sponsorship line by removing 'and Brown' to read just 'Bird'.

Removed 'Amended 2nd Reading' and 'Amended 3rd Reading' date stamps from the bill text.

Shortened the bill title by removing 'AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION' from line 106.

Updated the bill summary text to remove references to 'Amended 2nd Reading' and 'April 25, 2025'.

Updated version header from 'Rerevised' to 'Revised' and changed the amendment status description from 'Adopted in the Second House' to 'Adopted on Second Reading in the Second House'.

Added findings (c) through (h) detailing Medicaid's economic benefits, pandemic-era enrollment retention, post-pandemic eligibility redeterminations, enrollment drops from 1.8 million to 1.27 million, increased demand from uninsured Coloradans, and financial destabilization of safety net providers.

Added new legislative declaration (2)(a) beginning the establishment of a provider stabilization fund as a short-term measure.

Added new House sponsors (Bacon, Boesenecker, Camacho, Carter, Clifford, Froelich, Gilchrist, Gonzalez R., Joseph, Lindsay, Lukens, Mauro, McCluskie, McCormick, Paschal, Phillips, Ricks, Rutinel, Rydin, Sirota, Smith, Soper, Stewart K., Titone, Woodrow) to the House sponsorship list.

Updated version header from 'PREAMENDED' to 'REREVISED' and changed status from 'Committee Amendments Not Yet Adopted' to 'All Amendments Adopted in the Second House'.

Added reading status markers indicating '3rd Reading Unamended May 7, 2025 HOUSE' and 'Amended 2nd Reading May 6, 2025 HOUSE'.

Removed page numbering and section markers (e.g., '-2- 290') that were present in the previous version.

Added specific funding amounts: $25 million for 2025-26, $20 million for 2026-27, and $15 million for 2027-28 and subsequent fiscal years, sourced from interest earnings on the unclaimed property trust fund.

Created a new 'healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise' to distribute payments and establish a 'provider stabilization fund enterprise support board' to assist with administration.

Added requirement for the enterprise's governing board to submit annual reports to specified committees, the governor, and the medical services board.

Added committee information, bill summary, and formatting changes to reflect the amended version with Senate and House committee designations and reading dates.

Formatting corrections to title and section headers, including removal of stray characters and adjustment of capitalization in the bill title.

Minor formatting adjustments to definition sections, including adding spaces before quoted terms and correcting capitalization in the Medicaid program name.

Added a new funding source to the Provider Stabilization Fund, allowing the state department to receive gifts, grants, or donations from public or private sources.

Removed draft formatting artifacts, including session headers, committee lists, and explanatory notes about bill summaries and amendments.

Consolidated and cleaned up the list of Senate and House sponsors to match the final enrolled version.

Added standard statutory language indicating that capital letters and bold numbers denote new material, and dashes indicate deletions from existing law.

Reformatted the legislative declaration section to align with standard statutory structure, though the substantive findings and declarations remain the same.

Added 10 new Senate sponsors (Ball, Coleman, Gonzales J., Kipp, Liston, Lundeen, Marchman, Pelton R., Rodriguez, Weissman, Winter F.) to the bill's sponsorship list.

Updated the version header from 'ENGROSSED' to 'REENGROSSED' and changed the amendment date reference to April 28, 2025, indicating the bill has been amended again after its first engrossment.

The bill title and summary were simplified by removing the phrase 'within the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise' and reordering the purpose statement to emphasize making payments and maximizing federal funds.

The legislative declaration section was expanded to include new subsection (2) with specific commitments to protecting primary care safety net infrastructure, ensuring community access to care, and working toward long-term sustainability.

The bill status was updated from 'Introduced' to 'Engrossed' with all amendments adopted on second reading in the House of Introduction, and the committee assignments were changed from Health & Human Services to Finance and Appropriations.