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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid Appeal Review Legal Notice Requirements"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2017A"
identifier: "HB 17-1126"
citation: "Colorado HB 17-1126 (2017A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Jessie Danielson", "Larry Crowder"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61ce6aad-f82a-4b99-a17c-372890ee824e"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1126"
source_hash: "e9918ddf29ffbca746d3b045f3e08a5ec3aa6806ba26d8fe134d9bb67bcbfea4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017a/bills/cr/2017A_HB1126_S_HHS_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/17/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1126_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/04/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1126_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/26/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1126_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/21/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1126_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/29/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1126_rr2.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/28/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1126_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/06/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1126_signed.pdf)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61ce6aad-f82a-4b99-a17c-372890ee824e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).