ColoradoDepartment of Public Health and Environment Nursing Home Penalty Fund
What it does
Current law requires the department of public health and environment (CDPHE) to consider certain criteria as a basis for distributing grants from the nursing home penalty cash fund (fund). The act strikes these criteria and instead requires CDPHE to distribute such grants in accordance with priorities and allowable uses identified by the centers for medicare and medicaid services within the federal department of health and human services (centers). Current law requires the nursing home innovations grant board (board) to make recommendations for the approval of grants from the fund.
More detail
The act requires such recommendations to be consistent with the processes for grant cycles of, and priorities and allowable uses identified by, the centers. Current law requires CDPHE and the department of health care policy and financing, with the board's assistance, to jointly submit an annual report to the governor and certain legislative committees of reference regarding the expenditure of money in the fund. The act changes the due date of the report from October 1 to January 1. In current law, the term 'benefit residents of nursing facilities' is defined to mean that a grant has a direct impact on the residents of nursing facilities or has an indirect impact on the residents through education of nursing facility staff. The act amends this definition to include training, as well as education, of nursing facility staff. Current law states that a governmental entity may not apply for or receive a grant from the fund unless the entity is a facility that is owned or operated by a governmental agency and licensed as a nursing care facility. The act removes this restriction.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- May 6Governor Jared Polis SignedBecame Law
- Apr 28Signed by the Speaker of the HouseMajor
- Apr 28Signed by the President of the SenateMajor
- Apr 28Sent to the GovernorTo Governor
- Apr 9Senate Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed Senate
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 8Senate Second Reading Passed - No AmendmentsMinor
- Apr 2Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1244 to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 18Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human ServicesMinor
- Mar 13House Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed House
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 12House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- Mar 10House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1244, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment E). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 18Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human ServicesIntroduced