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Colorado Catholic Conference 2007 Legislation
Bill # / Sponsor (s) | Bill Title | CCC Position |
BLACK: Current Status BLUE: Sent to Governor DK BLUE: Governor Signed Into Law RED: Dead – Postponed Indefinitely |
2007 SENATE BILLS
SB 07 002 Sen. Sandoval Rep. Stafford | Medicaid Eligibility Foster Care |
LOBBY SUPPORT | Description: Concerning extended Medicaid eligibility for persons who are in the foster care system immediately prior to emancipation. Allows persons younger than 21 who were in foster care system & attained 18 or otherwise became emancipated to continue to be eligible for Medicaid. (*1023 issue) | | Final Action: 05/15/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 018 Sen. Sandoval Rep. Stafford | Relinquishment of Children Procedure
| MONITOR | Description: Concerning clarification of procedures for the expedited relinquishment of parental rights. Specifies juvenile court may terminate parent-child legal relationship under certain circumstances in expedited relinquishment proceedings | Final Action: 03/16/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 022 Sen. Veiga Rep. Frangas | PUC Low Income Regulatory Consideration
| LOBBY MONITOR SUPPORT | Description: Concerning the authority of the public utilities commission to consider the needs of low-income households when setting utility rates for energy. Statutory authority to Colorado public utilities commission to determine rates & practices for gas & electric service that take into account needs of low-income utility customers. | Final Action: 04/02/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 025 Sen. Veiga Rep. Madden | Sexual Orientation Employment Discrimination |
LOBBY MONITOR | Description: Concerning the expansion of employment nondiscrimination protections. Adds sexual orientation to the list of characteristics for which a person may not be discriminated against under state laws. | | Current Status: 05/21/2007 Sent to the Governor |
SB 07 029 Sen Schultheis Rep. Lundberg | Employers' Use Of Verification Program
| LOBBY MONITOR OPPOSE | Description: Concerning employer participation in the extended federal basic employment verification pilot program for the purpose of determining the work eligibility status of employees. | Final Action: 01/31/2007 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
SB 07 033 Sen. Brophy | Adoption Of High-risk Children
| MONITOR SUPPORT | Description: Concerning adoption of high-risk children. Requires state dept. of human services to make/continue payments in subsidization of adoption to adoptive parents if child is determined to be high-risk. | Current Status: 05/15/2007 Sent to the Governor |
SB 07 036 Sen. Keller Rep. Stafford | Mandatory Coverage Mental Disorders ICD9 | MONITOR | Description: Concerning the inclusion of certain additional mental disorders in the mandatory health insurance coverage for mental illness, and, in connection therewith, defining mental disorder as a condition classified as a mental disorder in the ninth revision of the international classification of diseases and excluding specified conditions defined as mental disorders therein. | Current Status: 05/14/2007 Sent to the Governor |
SB 07 060 Sen. Boyd Rep. McGihon | Emergency Contraception For Survivors | LOBBY | Description: Concerning the availability of emergency contraception to a survivor of a sexual assault. Requires hospitals adopt protocols to inform survivor of sexual assault of the availability of EC. Exempts a health care professional who objects on religious or moral grounds from requirement to provide info. On EC. | Final Action: 03/15/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 064 Sen. Keller Rep. Frangas | Child Foster Care Adoption Task Force
| MONITOR | Description: Concerning creation of a task force to examine the state's system for care of children who are removed from their biological parents. Establishes task force to address problems in state's child foster care and adoption systems. | Final Action: 03/30/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 065 Sen. Harvey Rep. C. Gardner | Proof Of Citizenship To Register To Vote
| MONITOR | Description: Concerning the requirement to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote. Requires person who applies to register to vote to provide proof of citizenship established through various means. | Final Action: 01/24/2007 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
SB 07 071 Sen Schultheis Rep. Lundberg
| Increase Penalty Attacks Pregnant Women
| LOBBY/MONITOR SUPPORT | Description: Concerning increasing the penalty for attacks against a pregnant woman that result in death to the pregnant woman's fetus, and making an appropriation therefor. Makes killing a fetus in certain circumstances a class 1 felony. | Final Action: 01/29/2007 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
SB 07 078 Sen. Williams Rep. Roberts | Restore Mandatory Offer Hospice Care
| MONITOR | Description: Concerning the restoration of the mandatory offer of hospice care coverage in small group health benefit plans. Basic health benefit plans issued/renewed to small groups on/after Jan 1, 2008 restores requirement that policyholders be offered opportunity to purchase coverage for benefits for costs of medically necessary home health services & hospice care. | Final Action: 04/11/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 079 Sen. Johnson Rep. Romanoff | Standard Health Care Provider Contracts
| MONITOR | Description: Concerning contractual agreements with health care providers for health care services. Requires any person or entity contracting with health care provider on/after Jan 1, 2008 to use standard form contract. Each contract must include summary disclosure form that contains various provisions. | Final Action: 03/30/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 080 Sen. Williams Rep. May | Cervical Cancer Prevention | LOBBY/MONITOR OPPOSE | Description: Concerning the prevention of cervical cancer. Requires female student & her parent/guardian to be presented with information regarding link between human papilloma virus & cervical cancer & availability of vaccine. Require female to present evidence of receiving vaccine prior to attending school… | Final Action: 04/05/2007 Senate Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely |
SB 07 094 Sen. Schultheis Rep. Lambert | Use Of Fraudulent Documents
| LOBBY/MONITOR | Description: Concerning 101 prohibition of the use of forged documentation to gain a benefit by a person illegally in the united states, and making an appropriation in connection therewith. Felony for illegal alien to use fraudulent documentation to obtain employment or apply for public benefit. Prohibits court from granting bail to person charged with crime of forged documentation…etc. | Final Action: 02/14/2007 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
SB 07 096 Sen. Spence Rep. T. Carroll | Theft From At-Risk Individuals | MONITOR | Description: Concerning theft from at-risk individuals. Creates a new classification for theft from an at-risk adult or at-risk juvenile when the theft is committed by a person in a position of trust. Creates new classification for theft from an at-risk adult or at-risk juvenile when the theft is committed by a person in a position of trust. | Current Status: 05/21/2007 Sent to the Governor |
SB 07 097 Sen. Fitz-Gerald Rep. Madden | Allocate Tobacco Settlement Moneys
| MONITOR | Description: Concerning the allocation of tobacco litigation settlement moneys that are not currently required to be allocated to existing tobacco settlement programs to health-care related programs that, except for the children's basic health plan, do not currently receive tobacco litigation settlement moneys. Money from Tobacco litigation settlement would go to fund health care related programs, such as the Cervical Cancer vaccination, the bill calls for a rule that would make the vaccination mandatory. | Final Action: 03/22/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 124 Sen. Isgar Rep. Marshall |
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority Act | MONITOR | Description: Concerning revisions to the "Colorado Housing and Finance Authority Act".. | Final Action: 05/03/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 128 Sen. Schultheis Rep. Lundberg | Homeless Youth Shelters
| LOBBY/MONITOR SUPPORT | Description: Concerning the use of General Fund Moneys in Support of Homeless Youth Shelters Repeals the restriction on using general fund moneys to implement the "Homeless Youth Act" | Final Action: 03/29/2007 Governor Action - Signed |
SB 07 130 Sen. Boyd | Medical Homes for Children | LOBBY SUPPORT | Description: Concerning Medical Homes for Children state department of health care policy and financing to develop systems and standards to maximize number of children who are enrolled in medical assistance or children's basic health plan who have a medical home. | Current Status: 05/15/2007 Sent to the Governor |
SB 07 138 Sen. Schultheis Rep. Lundberg | Public Schools Religious Bill Of Rights
| LOBBY/MONITOR SUPPORT | Description: Concerning the creation of religious bills of rights for individuals connected to public schools. | Final Action: 02/14/2007 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
SB 07 143 Sen. Renfroe Rep. Lambert | Abortion Ban
| LOBBY/MONITOR SUPPORT | Description: Concerning a prohibition on abortion. Makes it a class 3 felony to perform an abortion. | Final Action: 02/12/2007 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
SB 07 188 Sen. McElhany | Amendment 41 Implementation |
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