Colorado braces for $858M healthcare shift as feds pull back Medicaid, SNAP funding, prompting special session
By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics
Colorado legislators met at the state Capitol on Friday morning to review how the recently-adopted federal budget will affect health issues in the state.
The review is among the steps lawmakers are taking in preparation for an expected special session. Multiple sources have told Colorado Politics that the special session will take place during the week of Aug. 18.
Friday's meeting wasn't publicly announced on the legislature's website; the General Assembly had earlier cut funding for many interim committees due to budget constraints.
Senate Democrats announced on their website an "informal meeting" of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which drew a dozen lawmakers and dozens of lobbyists, journalists and others to the ...
