By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics
Gov. Jared Polis has signed his first law of the 2025 legislative session, a bipartisan cleanup measure that affects the state’s nursing homes.
House Bill 1022, sponsored by Reps. Cecelia Espenoza, D-Denver, and Karen McCormick, D-Hygiene, and Sens. Janice Rich, R-Grand Junction, and Dafna Michaelson Jenet, D-Commerce City, allows individuals who passed a competency evaluation administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on or before July 1, 2017, to be included in the state’s definition of “qualified medication administration personnel”.
Not only is the bill the first measure the governor has signed into law this session, but it is also Espenoza’s first bill to become law since being elected in November.