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(1) The statewide health care review committee is hereby created in order to study health-care issues that affect Colorado residents throughout the state, including the following:
(a) Emerging trends in Colorado health care and their effects on consumers, providers, and payers;
(b) The ability of consumers to obtain and keep adequate, affordable health insurance coverage;
(c) The effect of changes in the way health care is delivered and paid for;
(d) Trends in health-care coverage rates for individuals, employees, and employers and in reimbursement rates for health-care services;
(e) Access to and availability of federal funds and waivers of federal law;
(f) Innovations in health care and health-care coverage;
(g) Health-care issues that arise in or are unique to rural areas of the state;
(h) Access to timely and quality health care and emergency and nonemergency medical transportation;
(i) Options for addressing the needs of uninsured and underinsured populations;
(j) Issues related to the health-care workforce, including network adequacy and the adequacy of access to providers; and
(k) Any other health-care issue affecting Colorado residents that the committee deems necessary to study.
(2) (a) The committee consists of no more than ten members from the house of representatives committees on health and insurance and public health care and human services and the senate committee on health and human services, or their successor committees.
(b) The chair of the house of representatives committee on health and insurance or its successor committee shall chair the committee in odd-numbered years and serve as the vice-chair of the committee in even-numbered years. The chair of the senate committee on health and human services or its successor committee shall chair the committee in even-numbered years and serve as the vice-chair of the committee in odd-numbered years.
(c) The staff of the legislative council and of the office of legislative legal services shall assist the committee in carrying out its duties under this section.
(3) (a) The committee shall meet no more than two times each legislative interim, unless additional meetings are authorized by the executive committee of the legislative council. Of the meetings authorized under this subsection (3), the committee may take up to two field trips per year in connection with its duties mandated under this section.
(b) Repealed.
(c) (I) Notwithstanding subsection (3)(a) of this section, the committee shall not meet or take field trips during the 2025 interim.
(II) This subsection (3)(c) is repealed, effective July 1, 2026.