republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1126.md

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Bill	Medicaid Appeal Review Legal Notice Requirements	Interim Study Committee on Communication Between the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and Medicaid Clients. The bill requires the administrative law judge hearing medicaid appeals to review the legal sufficiency of the notice of action from which the recipient is appealing at the commencement of the appeal hearing if the notice of action concerns the termination or reduction of an existing benefit. If the notice is legally insufficient, the judge shall advise the appellant that he or she may waive the defense of insufficient notice and proceed to a hearing on the merits or may ask the judge to decide the appeal based on the judge's finding of insufficiency. The judge shall advise the appellant that a legally sufficient notice may be issued in the future and that the state may recoup benefits from the appellant.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1126	Colorado HB 17-1126 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Jessie Danielson Larry Crowder	8	14	2	2017-01-26T07:00:00+00:00	2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/61ce6aad-f82a-4b99-a17c-372890ee824e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1126	e9918ddf29ffbca746d3b045f3e08a5ec3aa6806ba26d8fe134d9bb67bcbfea4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1126 (2017A) — Medicaid Appeal Review Legal Notice Requirements

Interim Study Committee on Communication Between the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and Medicaid Clients. The bill requires the administrative law judge hearing medicaid appeals to review the legal sufficiency of the notice of action from which the recipient is appealing at the commencement of the appeal hearing if the notice of action concerns the termination or reduction of an existing benefit. If the notice is legally insufficient, the judge shall advise the appellant that he or she may waive the defense of insufficient notice and proceed to a hearing on the merits or may ask the judge to decide the appeal based on the judge's finding of insufficiency. The judge shall advise the appellant that a legally sufficient notice may be issued in the future and that the state may recoup benefits from the appellant.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/17/2017) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/26/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/29/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/28/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 17-1126 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1126 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 12-1. — 12–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Larry Crowder — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2017-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2017-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-01-26T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61ce6aad-f82a-4b99-a17c-372890ee824e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).