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House Health & Human Services
The House Health & Human Services committee moved five bills, with Democrats and Republicans splitting along party lines on a kidney-screening coverage mandate, a Medicaid transparency measure and a substance-abuse licensing sunset, while unanimously backing a scaled-back behavioral-health crisis bill and a reluctant delay to child care assistance reforms.
Key Actions
·Kidney Screening Mandatory Preventive CoveragePassed
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Notable Quotes
“two of us have received kidney transplants, three of us are still in need of kidney transplants, and one passed away last year waiting for kidney transplants.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (8)Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Katie Stewart, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist, Gretchen Rydin
No (5)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Dusty Johnson, Stephanie Luck
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (12)Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist, Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Dusty Johnson, Stephanie Luck, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin
Excused (1)Katie Stewart
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (8)Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist
No (5)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Dusty Johnson, Stephanie Luck
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist
No (5)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Dusty Johnson, Stephanie Luck, Brandi Bradley
Excused (1)Regina English
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (11)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Eliza Hamrick, Dusty Johnson, Stephanie Luck, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist, Karen McCormick
Excused (2)Regina English, Lisa Feret
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Okay. The Health and Human Services Committee will come to order. Mr. Sudum, please call the roll. Representative Zabaron. Excused. Bradfield, you should have just not said it here. Representative Bradfield. Bradfield. Bradfield is here. Bradley. Bradley is here. English. English is here too. Frey Hamrick. Also here. Johnson. Dusty's here. Look yet to be determined. McCormick here. Right in. Excuse. Stewart Here. Leader. Present. Madam Chair. Here. Okay. Welcome everyone. We're off to a fun start. This late afternoon we are going to hear the following bills in this order. 1019 with the representatives that are here now. And then 1160-1260-1092-1235 and 1214. Witnesses will have 2 minutes and 10 minute panels and with that we'll turn it over to Vice Chair. Leader, tell us about your bill. Thank you, Madam Chair. Hello, colleagues. I'm here to present House Bill 261019 concerning mandatory health care coverage for preventative kidney function screen screening services. Representative Bacon and I are the co primes of House Bill 26:1019. I introduced this bill because early detection of chronic kidney disease saves lives and saves money. But too many Coloradans don't get screened. Among the 800,000 Coloradans with hypertension, diabetes or both, an estimated…
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