---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital Community Benefit Accountability"
description: "Health care providers' accountability to communities - community health needs assessments - community benefit implementation plans - public meetings. The act requires the following hospitals to complete a community health needs assessment every 3 years and an annual community benefit implementation plan every year:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1320"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1320 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Kennedy", "Faith Winter", "Susan Lontine"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2260d2e7-728e-46e7-8a1a-3b85bd3441d6"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1320"
source_hash: "b5cb7f8f7fc139b9f5ebf7c6d6ec9338297375111456bcad356f4435824abda8"
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 19-1320 (2019A) — Hospital Community Benefit Accountability

Health care providers' accountability to communities - community health needs assessments - community benefit implementation plans - public meetings. The act requires the following hospitals to complete a community health needs assessment every 3 years and an annual community benefit implementation plan every year:

## 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_hb1320_s_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1320_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1320_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1320_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1320hi_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1320_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1320_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1320_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1320_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **45–20** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Susan Lontine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10T06:00:00+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/2260d2e7-728e-46e7-8a1a-3b85bd3441d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).