Date: 08/17/2016
Location: HCR 0112

Votes: View-->	Action Taken:
Representative Thurlow moved to request a bill dra	PASS

09:50 AM -- 5b. Relocation of Commission on Family Medicine organic statutes


09:51 AM -- Kate Meyer, OLLS, explained that the Commission on Family Medicine is an advisory body created in title 25, C.R.S., in 1977. In 1979, mandatory legislation was run to clarify that the Commission was located under the then-Department of Health. Somewhere along the way, the Commission became a part of the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and is now funded through that department's budget. Title 25, however, relates specifically to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE). It's an odd situation where there's a HCPF entity in CDPHE's statutes. Relocating the Commission to its organic statute, in title 25.5, could help stem confusion.

She further explained that in researching the legislative history, there was some discussion about making this very change in the Revisor's Bill in 1979.

Representative Thurlow asked who was administering the Commission.

Ms. Meyer replied that HCPF was the overseeing entity and that she reached out to both HCPF and CDPHE and heard back from both departments that neither had any qualms in moving the statute to title 25, C.R.S.

Senator Steadman shared that he spoke with members on the Commission on Family Medicine about the issue and that they were aware of the relocation recommendation. He questioned if the Committee were to move forward with the recommendation, what the bill draft would look like--whether it would just be changing section numbers, whether small caps would be used even though the language wasn't changing. He also wondered if the Commission had any desire to amend the statute during its relocation.

Ms. Meyer replied that she envisioned the bill would be a pure nonsubstantive relocation--with the potential to do some clean-up language, for instant to made the pronouns gender neutral. She assumed that the amending instruction would be simple repeal and relocate, which would keep the original statute's language in the bill in regular type and would show any changes to the statute in small caps or strike type. The only other change necessitated by the relocation was a single conforming amendment.

BILL:	5b. Relocation of Commission on Family Medicine organic statutes
TIME:	09:55:44 AM
MOVED:	Thurlow
MOTION:	Representative Thurlow moved to request a bill draft to relocate the Commission on Family Medicine to title 25.5, Colorado Revised Statute. The motion passed on a vote of 8-0.
SECONDED:	Steadman
		VOTE
	Arndt	Yes
	Dore	Yes
	Holbert	Yes
	Kerr	Yes
	Steadman	Yes
	Tate	Yes
	Thurlow	Yes
	(None), (None)
	Moreno	Yes
FINAL YES: 8 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS