Governor Bill Ritter signed eight important health care bills into law on May 26. These include H.B. 1330, under which an advisory committee will be established to make recommendations on the creation of a Colorado All-Payer Health Claims Database, for the purpose of promoting more transparent, useful public reporting of health care information. The advisory committee is to propose strategies to collect meaningful data related to health care quality and safety, utilization, health outcomes, and costs, focusing on data that can foster appropriate peer group comparisons and stimulate quality improvement. The advisory committee is scheduled to issue recommendations by March 1, 2011. The database is to be operational by January 1, 2013. Another bill enacted into law, H.B. 1332, will establish a task force by November 30, 2010 to consider a uniform, consistent set of payment rules and claims edits to be used by all payers and by medical professionals, relying on Medicare rules where appropriate. The task force is to submit a report and recommendations to the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing by November 30, 2012. Other significant Colorado legislation signed into law on May 26 includes H.B. 1021, which is designed to improve access to prenatal care for women with non-group health insurance, and S.B. 153, which will create a Behavioral Health Transformation Council by August 1, 2010.