hospital provider fee
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Hospital fee debate moves on to second act in Senate
The curtain officially rose Thursday in the House on the long drama centered around the Democratic-led effort to reclassify the state’s $700 million hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund. By Friday at roughly 11:00 a.m., the first act had concluded. Two bills concerning the reclassification passed with Republican support and headed to the Senate,…
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Hullinghorst hopes fine-tuned hospital fee proposals win Republican support
The long dance in the Legislature over a plan to reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund continued on Tuesday, when Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, presented a new bill to direct how additional revenues collected from the reclassification should be spent. On March 28, Hullinghorst introduced House Bill…
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Hickenlooper on replacing the state’s caucus system, being impressed with Hillary, hatching a cybersecurity hub, still hoping for hospital fee fix
In this week’s window-side chat with reporters — the latest in the series the governor is doing in the last month of the legislative session — John Hickenlooper answered questions about the state’s caucus system, which has been making headlines around the country as the heated presidential primary contests continue. He also talked about Democratic…
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Crowder wants to be really clear about how he sees the hospital provider fee, you follow?
“The thing I’m trying to impress on people is we got to come out and have to have an adult conversation in this state about what direction we want to go,” said state Sen. Larry Crowder, standing on the steps of the Capitol last week. Crowder was talking about his support for House Bill 1420,…
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Debate begins at last on real live hospital provider fee bill
The months-long dress rehearsal at the Legislature has given way at last to the big show. Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, on Tuesday introduced to the House Appropriations Committee House Bill 1420, which would reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund. Committee members and witnesses took turns weighing the…
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Hullinghorst drops hospital fee bill, at last, with Crowder’s name attached
Colorado Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, on Monday introduced a bill to remake the state’s hospital provider fee in order to free up millions of dollars for the state budget. The Speaker had threatened to introduce the proposal for months and, absent the bill itself, the merits of the proposal had been…
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He said, she said, they said: At legislative session halfway mark, gridlock reigns on big issues
The sound and fury about gridlock that has marked news-release language and news-conference presentations over the last two weeks may come to nothing at the Capitol — which isn’t to say it won’t make for effective election-campaign fodder this fall. Colorado lawmakers now well into the second half of this year’s legislative session are expressing…
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Half-way home: House minority tallies wins, examines remaining goals for session
The first act of this year’s session of the Colorado General Assembly has been one of mostly compromise and accord. But in the second act, the drama will likely start up in earnest. During a mid session review by members of the House Republican Leadership Friday, Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, said the 60 days of…
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Hullinghorst not waiting on Cadman to tackle hot-button hospital fee plan
Colorado Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst will not delay efforts to move the state’s hospital provider fee into an enterprise fund. She wants to get started now while working to get the Republican-controlled state Senate on board. Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, said during a news conference Tuesday that the recent opinion from Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, coupled…
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Crowder remains lone Republican wolf open to hospital fee change
State Sen. Larry Crowder didn’t need to hear the news that Colorado Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman believes it would be constitutional to reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund. He was already on board. “I didn’t really need anything other than (the opinion) of John Suthers,” Crowder, R-Alamosa, told The Colorado…