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July 31, 2023 HB 23-1067
Legislative Council Staff
Nonpartisan Services for Colorado’s Legislature
Final Fiscal Note
Drafting Number:
Prime Sponsors:
LLS 23-0450
Rep. Young; Bradfield
Sen. Cutter; Ginal
Date:
Bill Status:
Fiscal Analyst:
July 31, 2023
Signed into Law
Shukria Maktabi | 303-866-4720
shukria.maktabi@coleg.gov
Bill Topic: FAMILY INTERVENER PROG RAM DEAFBLIND CHILDREN
Summary of
Fiscal Impact:
☒ State Revenue
☒ State Expenditure
☐ State Transfer
☐ TABOR Refund
☐ Local Government
☐ Statutory Public Entity
The bill creates the Family and Community Intervener Program in the Department of
Human Services to support deafblind children and their families. The bill increases
state expenditures on an ongoing basis and may increase state revenue.
Appropriation
Summary:
The bill requires and includes an appropriation of $130,092 to the Department of
Human Services.
Fiscal Note
Status:
The fiscal note reflects the enacted bill.
Table 1
State Fiscal Impacts Under HB 23-1067
Budget Year
FY 2023-24
Out Year
FY 2024-25
Revenue - -
Expenditures Cash Funds $130,092 $221,866
Centrally Appropriated $7,411 $9,112
Total Expenditures $137,503 $230,978
Total FTE 0.4 FTE 0.5 FTE
Transfers - -
Other Budget Impacts - -
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Summary of Legislation
The bill creates the Family and Community Intervener Program to support deafblind children and
their families by providing the services of an intervener trained in deafblindness, building language
and communication skills, providing intervention strategies, and identifying additional services.
By October 1, 2023, the Colorado Commission for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deafblind (the
commission) within the Colorado Department of Human Services (DHS) must hire a program
manager to oversee the program and interveners. The program will be funded through the Colorado
Telephone Users with Disabilities Fund.
Background
The commission is responsible for ensuring equal access to government services for the deaf, hard of
hearing, and deafblind in Colorado. The commission is funded through a surcharge on landlines,
mobile wireless, and voice-over-internet-protocol customers that is allocated through the Telephone
Users with Disability Fund (TUDF) in the Department of Regulatory Agencies. The Colorado Public
Utilities Commission (PUC) can make adjustments to the surcharge.
State Revenue
To the extent that the PUC adjusts the surcharge in future fiscal years to cover the costs of providing
services under the program, state cash fund revenue to the TUDF will increase.
State Expenditures
Expenditures in the DHS will increase by $137,503 in FY 2023-24 and by $230,978 in FY 2024-25, as
shown in Table 2 and described below. Expenditures are paid from the TUDF.
Table 2
Expenditures Under HB23-1067
FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25
Department of Human Services
Personal Services $32,069 $38,484
Operating Expenses - $675
Capital Outlay Costs $6,670 -
Intervener Service Costs $91,353 $182,707
Centrally Appropriated Costs
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$7,411 $9,112
FTE – Personal Services 0.4 FTE 0.5 FTE
Total Cost $137,503 $230,978
Total FTE 0.4 FTE 0.5 FTE
1
Centrally appropriated costs are not included in the bill's appropriation. Page 3
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Program manager. DHS will require 0.5 FTE to oversee the program and interveners, including
developing an implementation plan, developing relationships with families who have deafblind
children, consulting on program guidelines and policies, and performing administrative functions.
FY 2023-24 costs are prorated for a September 1 start date.
Intervener service costs. DHS will have costs of $91,353 in FY 2023-24 and $182,707 in FY 2024-25 to
provide intervener services to eligible children. The fiscal note assumes that the program will provide
12 hours of services per month to 24 deafblind children in FY 2023-24, with an increase to 32 children
in following years. These costs include intervener assignments, travel time for rural assignments, and
mileage reimbursement for travel. These program costs are estimated based on similar programs for
deafblind children in Colorado, and are prorated for eight months in FY 2023-24.
Centrally appropriated costs. Pursuant to a Joint Budget Committee policy, certain costs associated
with this bill are addressed through the annual budget process and centrally appropriated in the Long
Bill or supplemental appropriations bills, rather than in this bill. These costs, which include employee
insurance and supplemental employee retirement payments, are shown in Table 2.
Effective Date
The bill was signed into law by the Governor on May 15, 2023, and takes effect on August 7, 2023,
assuming no referendum petition is filed.
State Appropriations
For FY 2023-24, the bill requires and includes an appropriation of $130,092 from the Telephone Users
with Disabilities Fund to the Department of Human Services, and 0.4 FTE.
State and Local Government Contacts
Counties Health Care Policy and Financing Human Services
Information Technology Regulatory Agencies
The revenue and expenditure impacts in this fiscal note represent changes from current law under the bill for each
fiscal year. For additional information about fiscal notes, please visit: leg.colorado.gov/fiscalnotes.