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The House Finance Committee advanced two bills reworking access for the incapacitated and injured — a cap on runaway medical-record fees and a shift to limited, 'least restrictive' guardianship — but both cleared over dissent, with the guardianship measure's $1.4 million price tag drawing the sharpest fire in an atmosphere of Medicaid cuts.
Key Actions
·Guardianship for Incapacitated AdultsPassed
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Notable Quotes
“we recorded $6,000 just to obtain my own information. $6,000 for records that already exist, belonging to me and were essential in order to access care, benefits and justice is outrageous.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (7)Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Rebekah Stewart, Ron Weinberg, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow
No (4)Max Brooks, Ryan Gonzalez, Bob Marshall, Anthony Hartsook
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (9)Sean Camacho, Lorena Garcia, Ryan Gonzalez, Anthony Hartsook, Bob Marshall, Rebekah Stewart, Yara Zokaie, Brianna Titone, Steven Woodrow
No (2)Max Brooks, Ron Weinberg
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The committee will come to order. Please call the roll. Representative Brooks. Present. I have it memorized. It's frozen. Brooks. Cavacho. Here. Garcia. Gonzalez. Morning. Heart sick. Here. Marshall. Excused. Stewart. Here. Weinberg. Here. Zokai. Here. Satone. Yes, Mr. Chair. Here. We have a quorum. We have two bills. We have our bill sponsors. 1414. Who'd like to kick us off? Madam speaker. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, members. I am delighted to be here to present House Bill 1414 with my good colleague, Representative Camacho. This bill will help ensure that Coloradans have time to their own medical records at a fair cost. Currently, accessing your personal medical records in Colorado can sometimes be a cumbersome and prohibitively expensive process. In Colorado, when an individual or legal guardian requests medical records, the cost is only $6.50 per request. However, when an attorney requests those same medical records on an individual's behalf, the cost can often balloon to thousands of dollars. There are many circum circumstances in which an individual is unable to request their own medical records and must rely on an attorney to do so. This is particularly true for individuals who are living with disabilities, non…
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