1F4B3111A26823ED87258C360071CF62 Hearing Summary

The primary bill
sponsors, Representatives Brown and Froelich, introduced House Bill 25-1154
to the House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill creates the
Communication Services for People with Disabilities Enterprise (enterprise)
in the Department of Human Services (CDHS) to provide services and resources
for individuals who are blind, print-disabled, deaf, hard of hearing, or
deafblind. The bill moves programs and services currently managed by the
State Librarian in the Department of Education (CDE) and the Colorado Commission
for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deafblind (commission) in CDHS to the
enterprise. Specifically, CDE’s Reading Services for the Blind program
and all of the commission’s programs and services are transferred to the
enterprise. The enterprise is governed by a Board of Directors appointed
by the Governor by June 1, 2025. It is designated as an enterprise for
the purposes of TABOR and any fee revenue collected is required to be less
than $100 million over its first five years of operation, which means voter
approval is not required.



The sponsors provided
a handout to the committee (Attachment B).

The bill sponsors provided closing comments on the bill.