republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-254.md

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Bill	Nursing Home Penalty Cash Fund	Nursing home penalty cash fund - reserve - grant cap - repeal related program sunset. The act repeals the current reserve for the nursing home penalty cash fund and instead requires the medical services board to establish a minimum reserve that limits expenditures for grants. The annual cap on expenditures for grants, which is $250,000 or possibly a lesser amount depending on whether the fund balance exceeds $2 million, is repealed and the sunset review of the use of grants and the related nursing home innovations grant board is also repealed.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-254	Colorado SB 19-254 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Kim Ransom Rachel Zenzinger	8	12	2	2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/457824c0-d500-495a-8117-f9b5d61ecad5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-254	d355b76dceb64c538f86020d9d84a7e1efa9274bec735637a0810cc2dce9407a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-254 (2019A) — Nursing Home Penalty Cash Fund

Nursing home penalty cash fund - reserve - grant cap - repeal related program sunset. The act repeals the current reserve for the nursing home penalty cash fund and instead requires the medical services board to establish a minimum reserve that limits expenditures for grants. The annual cap on expenditures for grants, which is $250,000 or possibly a lesser amount depending on whether the fund balance exceeds $2 million, is repealed and the sunset review of the use of grants and the related nursing home innovations grant board is also repealed.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/24/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 63–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kim Ransom — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/457824c0-d500-495a-8117-f9b5d61ecad5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).