---
type: "Bill"
title: "Proposal For Affordable Health Coverage Option"
description: "Proposal for a state option for health care coverage - creation - division of insurance - appropriation. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing and the division of insurance in the department of regulatory agencies (departments) to develop and submit a proposal (proposal) to certain committees of the general assembly concerning the design, costs, benefits, and implementation of a state option for health care coverage. Additionally, the departments shall present a summary of the proposal at the annual joint hearings with the legislative committees of reference during the interim before the 2020 legislative session."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1004"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1004 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Kerry Donovan", "Marc Catlin"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ec11426-d8e6-4e77-9315-973ebc9bcb50"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1004"
source_hash: "f5731ac3f59c4b2dda51c42b44c8d0769b44caf73b3794f0c4e935f753efa7c7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 19-1004 (2019A) — Proposal For Affordable Health Coverage Option

Proposal for a state option for health care coverage - creation - division of insurance - appropriation. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing and the division of insurance in the department of regulatory agencies (departments) to develop and submit a proposal (proposal) to certain committees of the general assembly concerning the design, costs, benefits, and implementation of a state option for health care coverage. Additionally, the departments shall present a summary of the proposal at the annual joint hearings with the legislative committees of reference during the interim before the 2020 legislative session.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1004_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004hi_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (02/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1004_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1004_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **46–17** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **53–11** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **16–19** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **19–16** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **45–19** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **16–42** (fail) · lower
- COW * — **16–19** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ec11426-d8e6-4e77-9315-973ebc9bcb50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).