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Bill	Sustainability Of Rural Colorado	Section 16 of the bill repeals the existing hospital provider fee program, effective July 1, 2017, and section 17 creates a new Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF), effective July 1, 2017, to charge and collect a healthcare affordability and sustainability fee that functions similarly to the repealed hospital provider fee. Because CHASE is an enterprise for purposes of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR), its revenue does not count against the state fiscal year spending limit (Referendum C cap).	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	SB 17-267	Colorado SB 17-267 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Jerry Sonnenberg Jon Becker KC Becker Lucia Guzman	16	15	15	2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00	2017-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6b60509a-60fa-4475-b96b-fc28068e32c2	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-267	0ef3a71875a21c2d97f1ab0f2f0e8e3b3dbcbf71cbe035e86c1a69d5295eb66e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 17-267 (2017A) — Sustainability Of Rural Colorado

Section 16 of the bill repeals the existing hospital provider fee program, effective July 1, 2017, and section 17 creates a new Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF), effective July 1, 2017, to charge and collect a healthcare affordability and sustainability fee that functions similarly to the repealed hospital provider fee. Because CHASE is an enterprise for purposes of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR), its revenue does not count against the state fiscal year spending limit (Referendum C cap).

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.002 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment L.003 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment L.008 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment L.009 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment L.012 (committee substitute) — source
6. Amendment L.014 (committee substitute) — source
7. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
8. Engrossed (05/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Final Act (05/19/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Introduced (03/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
11. PA1 (04/12/2017) (committee substitute) — source
12. PA2 (05/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source
13. Reengrossed (05/08/2017) (committee substitute) — source
14. Rerevised (05/10/2017) (committee substitute) — source
15. Revised (05/09/2017) (committee substitute) — source
16. Signed Act (05/30/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Adopt amendment J.003 The motion passed on a vote of 5-2. — 5–2 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.012 (Attachment F). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Amendment L.032 The motion failed on a vote of 5-8. — 5–8 (fail) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.014 (Attachment J). The motion passed on a vote of 4-1. — 4–1 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.023 The motion passed on a vote of 5-2. — 5–2 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.003 (Attachment D). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-267, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-2. — 5–2 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.027 The motion passed on a vote of 5-2. — 5–2 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-267 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 9-4. — 9–4 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt a conceptual amendment that strikes "of" and substitutes "for" on page 51, lines 18, 20, and 27. The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-267 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 11-2. — 11–2 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.008 (Attachment E). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-267, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 4-1. — 4–1 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment C). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.009 (Attachment K). The motion passed on a vote of 3-2. — 3–2 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
• Jon Becker — primary (person)
• KC Becker — primary (person)
• Lucia Guzman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/09/2017 - No Amendments
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2017-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b60509a-60fa-4475-b96b-fc28068e32c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).