Joint Budget Committee. The bill requires the department of
health care policy and financing (state department) to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of extending continuous eligibility medical coverage for eligible children and adults.
The state department is required to submit a report detailing its
findings and recommendations from the feasibility study to the joint budget committee of the senate and house of representatives, the governor, and to the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee and the senate health and human services committee, or any successor committees, by January 1, 2026.
The state department is required to prepare documents seeking
federal authorization to provide continuous eligibility medical coverage to eligible adults and children and include the completed federal authorization documents with its report submitted to the joint budget committee of the senate and house of representatives, the governor, and to the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee and the senate health and human services committee, or any successor committees.
No later than April 1, 2024, the state department is required to seek
federal authorization to extend continuous eligibility coverage for children less than 3 years of age, including children who would be eligible for medical assistance coverage but are not because of their immigration status, and to extend eligibility coverage for 12 months for adults who have been released from a Colorado department of corrections facility, regardless of a change in income.
The bill makes an appropriation.
