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Committee backs technical changes to county hospital governance statute
Summary
Senators advanced House Bill 1085, a bill updating county hospital statutes to allow concurrent political appointments for trustees, flexible annual organization timing and streamlined reporting to county commissioners; the bill was urged by rural hospital representatives and moved to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation.
House Bill 1085, which makes technical changes to Colorado’s county hospital statute, was advanced by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee after testimony from sponsors and rural hospital representatives.
Senator Pelton, the bill sponsor, said the bill "remedies" conflicts in current statute that make it hard to recruit trustees for rural public hospitals. He said the…
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