(1) (a) For carrying out the duties and obligations of the state department and county departments under the provisions of this title and for matching such federal funds or meeting maintenance of effort requirements as may be available for public assistance and welfare activities in the state, including medical assistance administration and related activities, the general assembly, in accordance with the constitution and laws of the state of Colorado, shall make adequate appropriations for the payment of such costs, pursuant to the budget prepared by the executive director.
If the federal law shall provide federal funds, in cash or in another form such asmedical assistance, not otherwise provided for in this title, the state department is authorized to make such payments or offer such services in accordance with the requirements accompanying said federal funds within the limits of available state appropriations.
When the executive director determines that adequate appropriations for the paymentof the costs described in paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) have not been made and that an overexpenditure of an appropriation will occur based upon the state department's estimates, the state board may take actions consistent with state and federal law to bring the rate of expenditure into line with available funds. The general assembly declares that case load and utilization based on medical necessity are legitimate reasons for supplemental funding.
The general assembly shall appropriate from the general fund to the state departmentmoneys for the costs of administering medical assistance programs and the state's share of the costs of administering such functions by the county departments amounts sufficient for the proper and efficient performance of the duties imposed upon them by law, including a legal advisor appointed by the attorney general. The general assembly shall make two separate appropriations, one for the administrative costs of the state department and another for the administrative costs of the county departments. Any applicable matching federal funds shall be apportioned in accordance with the federal regulations accompanying such funds. Any unobligated and unexpended balances of appropriated state general funds remaining at the end of each fiscal year shall be credited to the state general fund.
The expenses of training personnel for special skills relating to medical assistance, assuch expenses shall be determined and approved by the state department, may be paid from state and federal funds available for such training purposes.
Source: L. 2006: Entire part amended, p. 1793, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section was contained in a 2006 act that amended this part, resulting in the addition of this section.