Legislative Priorities

2010 Legislative Wrap-up & Summary

HB1033 Screening Brief Intervention Referral: Adds to the list of optional
services provided to medicaid recipients screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment
for alcohol and other substance abuse services.
HB1147 Safer Streets for Nonmotorized Transport: Requires CDOT, in collaboration with the departments of education and public safety and appropriate nonprofit organizations and advocacy groups, to notify schools of the availability of and make available to schools existing educational curriculum regarding the safe use of public streets and premises open to the public by users of nonmotorized wheeled transportation and pedestrians.
SB106 Food Systems Advisory Council: The bill creates a 13-member food systems advisory council (council) in the department of agriculture. The executive directors or their designees from the departments of public health and environment, agriculture, human services, and education are 4 of the members of the council.

HB1292 The Rule Review Bill: Provides for the continuation of rules and regulations of state agencies that were adopted or amended on or after November 1, 2007, and before November 1, 2008; except that certain rules and regulations shall expire as scheduled on May 15, 2009.
SB175 Group Special License Plate Retirement: Extends to July 1, 2011, the date the department may stop issuing certain license plates including the Colorado "Kids First license plate.
SB179 Communicable Disease Control: Adds HIV to the current list of statutorily mandated tests for sexually transmitted infections during pregnancy or upon childbirth to help increase the number of women being tested in order to prevent HIV transmission to as many infants as possible.
SB131 Require Physical Activity in School: Encourages each school board and the charter school institute to ensure that students in their elementary schools engage in at least 150 minutes of physical activity each week.
SB296 Seat Belt Primary Offense: Creates a primary offense for failure to wear a seat belt. Modifies child safety restraint law, and creates legislative intent that racial profiling laws be strictly followed.

SB194 The Public Health Reauthorization Act: Reauthorizes and revitalizes public health by cleaning up old language in the law and redesignating local public health agencies.
Family Planning Services for Low Income Coloradoans: Colorado will begin a Medicaid expansion that will provide a limited family planning benefit for low-income adults that are currently uninsured.
Patient Information Reporting Requirements: (worked to defeat) Requires providers to notify patients prior to any test or sample if the results had to be shared with the State Health Department
Food Safety Act: remove restaurant inspection fees from state law and allowed the Board of Health to establish the fee schedule to cover the costs of performing inspections.
Budget Issues - Immunization and Local Public Health Funding: promotes Governor Ritter’s Building Blocks for Health Care Reform agenda.

Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act: Keep the new law strong and actively support eliminating the casino exemption, which exposes casino employees to second-hand smoke on a daily basis.
Imigration Reform: Advocate for changes to the special session bill and/or implementation that assures Colorado citizens and legal immigrants can obtain the public benefits they are eligible for without undue barriers to accessing those benefits.
Childhood Immunizations: Support systems and reforms that improve Colorado's childhood immunization rates, including the new cervical cancer vaccines for young girls.

Authorization of the Colorado Kids 1st special license plate to raise funds for children's health promotion and disease prevention.
Passage of statewide smoke-free legislation
Emergency contraception information to victims of sexual assault
Ammendment 35 Tobacco Tax implementation
Improving childhood immunizations
Increasing Food inspection fees and state per capita funding support for local health agencies
Referendum C - healthcare funding
Passage of a primary seatbelt law
Anti-immigrant issues
Family care bill
Crystal methamphetamine issues

Implementation of Ammendment 35 Tobacco Taxes intended by voters
Authorization for the Colorado Kids 1st special license plate to raise funds for children's health promotion and disease prevention
Support and promote bills to improve childhood immunizations
Restoring Medicaid presumptive eligibility for pregnant women.
Passage of statewide smoke-free legislation
TABOR reform referenda C&D

Adopted CPHA resolutions by year. (click for a PDF of text)

Diabetes Self Management Education/Training - Medicaid to reimburse nurses for education related to diabetes management
Require Healthy Home Inspection on Resale - encouraging strict standards on home inspections prior to resale (e.g. mold, radon, are not addressed at this time)

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