§ 23-76.5-105 — Initiative funding - fee-for-service contracts

Colorado § 23-76.5-105

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 23: Postsecondary Education
• Art.: Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative

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(1) Subject to
available appropriations, the department of higher education shall enter into a
limited purpose fee-for-service contract with the university of Colorado health
sciences center pursuant to section 23-18-308 to provide funding for the rural
program office in the department of family medicine to carry out the office's duties
described in section 23-76.5-103. The funding for the rural program office may be
included in a single fee-for-service contract with the university of Colorado health
sciences center pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.

(2) (a) Subject to available appropriations, the department of higher
education shall enter into a limited purpose fee-for-service contract with the
governing boards of each of the following institutions, except for Colorado
mountain college, for allocation to each program or institution listed in this
subsection (2) to establish or expand an existing rural track pursuant to this article
76.5:

(I) Adams state university, in its nursing program;

(II) Colorado Mesa university, in its nursing program;

(III) The Colorado school of public health, in its master of public health
program;

(IV) Colorado state university - Pueblo, in its school of nursing;

(V) Metropolitan state university of Denver, in its nursing program;

(VI) The university of Colorado, in the following programs or schools:

(A) At the health sciences center campus, in its school of dental medicine
and in the rural program of its doctor of medicine program in the school of
medicine;

(B) At the Colorado Springs campus, in its nursing program; and

(C) At the health sciences center campus, in its physician assistants program
in the school of medicine;

(VII) The university of northern Colorado, in its school of nursing;

(VIII) Western Colorado university, in its master of behavioral science in rural
community health program;

(IX) Colorado mountain college, in its nursing program;

(X) Fort Lewis college, in its nursing program operated in agreement with the
university of Colorado nursing program; and

(XI) At the following institutions governed by the state board for community
colleges and occupational education:

(A) Morgan community college, in its nursing program; and

(B) Trinidad state college, in its nursing program.

(b) Repealed.

(c) Subject to available appropriations, the department of higher education
may enter into a limited purpose fee-for-service contract with the board of regents
of the university of Colorado for allocation to each program or institution listed in
subsection (2)(a) of this section to expand an existing rural track program pursuant
to this article 76.5. The rural program office, in collaboration with the institutions,
shall develop a formula based on data that documents the program's or institution's
fulfillment of the requirements specified in section 23-76.5-102 for the department
of higher education to use to make allocations to a program or institution pursuant
to this subsection (2)(c). When developing the allocation formula, the rural program
office shall consider:

(I) The percentage of money dedicated to direct student support in the form
of scholarships and rural housing assistance during rural practical experience;

(II) The number of students enrolled in each rural track program;

(III) The length of study for the rural track program;

(IV) The tuition expenses for the rural track program;

(V) The amount of rural curriculum provided to students;

(VI) The rural practical experience provided to students;

(VII) The teaching development provided to volunteer rural preceptors; and

(VIII) The number of graduates who enter rural practice.

(3) Any money not expended or encumbered from any appropriation at the
end of any fiscal year remains available for expenditure for the purpose of this
section in the next fiscal year without further appropriation.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2022: Entire article added, (SB 22-172), ch. 298, p. 2134, � 2, effective June 1. L. 2024: (1), IP(2)(a), and (2)(a)(VI)(A) amended and (2)(c) and (3) added, (SB 24-221), ch. 457, p. 3157, � 2, effective June 6.