House Bill 25-1085 Engrossed

A Bill for an Act

• Page 1, Line 101Concerning public hospital boards of trustees.

Bill Summary

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at http://leg.colorado.gov.)

The bill allows a board of county commissioners to appoint an individual who is already an appointed state, county, or city official to a public hospital board of trustees (hospital board).

In current law, a hospital board must organize and operate on the second Tuesday of each January. The bill changes that requirement to mandate that a hospital board organize and operate on an annual basis. The bill eliminates a requirement that one of the trustees of a hospital board must visit and examine the hospital at least twice each month. The bill also changes the deadline by which a hospital board must certify to a board of county commissioners the amount necessary to maintain and improve the hospital for the ensuing year from October 1 to December 1.

• Page 2, Line 1Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

• Page 2, Line 2SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 25-3-302, amend (1) as follows:

• Page 2, Line 325-3-302.  Board of trustees. (1)  If a board of county

• Page 2, Line 4commissioners decides to create a public hospital board of trustees, levy

• Page 2, Line 5an annual tax, and appropriate funds to purchase, erect, and maintain or

• Page 2, Line 6turn over to the public hospital board of trustees control of a county

• Page 2, Line 7hospital, the board of county commissioners shall proceed at once to

• Page 2, Line 8appoint to the public hospital board of trustees, for designated terms,

• Page 2, Line 9seven trustees chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their

• Page 2, Line 10fitness for office. All of the trustees must be residents of the county. and

• Page 2, Line 11none may be an elected or appointed state, county, or city official.

• Page 2, Line 12Nothing in this article 3 requires a licensed physician to be appointed to

• Page 2, Line 13a public hospital board of trustees; however, if a licensed physician is

• Page 2, Line 14appointed to a public hospital board of trustees, membership on that board

• Page 2, Line 15is limited to one licensed physician at any given time. The seven

• Page 2, Line 16appointees constitute the public hospital board of trustees for the public

• Page 2, Line 17hospital. The public hospital board of trustees is a body corporate under

• Page 2, Line 18the name "Board of Trustees for ............... Hospital", the name of the hospital being inserted in the blank.

• Page 2, Line 19SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 25-3-303, amend (1) introductory portion as follows:

• Page 2, Line 2025-3-303.  Organization of trustees. (1)  The members of the

• Page 2, Line 21board of public hospital trustees within ten days after their appointment

• Page 3, Line 1shall qualify by taking the oath of office. On the second Tuesday of each January, They shall annually organize and operate as follows:

• Page 3, Line 2SECTION 3.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 25-3-304, amend (2)(b) as follows:

• Page 3, Line 325-3-304.  Trustees - powers and duties. (2) (b)  A board of

• Page 3, Line 4public hospital trustees must shall hold meetings at least once each

• Page 3, Line 5month and must shall keep a complete record of all its proceedings.

• Page 3, Line 6Four members of the board constitutes constitute a quorum for the

• Page 3, Line 7transaction of business. One of the trustees must visit and examine said

• Page 3, Line 8hospital at least twice each month, and the public hospital board, During

• Page 3, Line 9the first week in each January and July, must the public hospital

• Page 3, Line 10board shall file with the board of county commissioners a report of

• Page 3, Line 11their proceedings with reference to such hospital and a statement of all

• Page 3, Line 12receipts and expenditures during the half year. On or before each October

• Page 3, Line 13first December 1, the board must shall certify to the board of county

• Page 3, Line 14commissioners the amount necessary to maintain and improve said

• Page 3, Line 15hospital for the ensuing year. No A trustee shall not have a personal

• Page 3, Line 16pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, in the purchase of any

• Page 3, Line 17supplies for said hospital, unless the same are purchased by competitive bidding.

• Page 3, Line 18SECTION 4.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act

• Page 3, Line 19takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the

• Page 3, Line 20ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly; except

• Page 3, Line 21that, if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V

• Page 3, Line 22of the state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this

• Page 3, Line 23act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take

• Page 3, Line 24effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in

• Page 4, Line 1November 2026 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.