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Committee advances bill to create Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind services enterprise; moves to appropriations
Summary
Lawmakers amended and advanced a bill to create an enterprise to hold programs for the deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind within state government and to direct fee revenue. Sponsors said the change preserves federal maintenance-of-effort obligations for certain services and does not alter the fee cap or statutory fee amounts.
The House Health & Human Services Committee advanced legislation to create an enterprise that would house the Commission on Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind and related services, redirect certain fee revenue into the new enterprise, and preserve some reading and talking-book services at the Department of Education.
Representative Judy Brown, the bill sponsor, told the committee that amendments developed with the governor’s office and affected agencies create the enterprise within the Colorado Department of Human Services and preserve federal maintenance-of-effort…
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