---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recreate Occupational Therapy Practice Act"
description: "The act recreates, with amendments, the \"Occupational Therapy Practice Act\" (Act), which repealed September 1, 2020. Specifically, the act:Recreates and extends the Act for 9 years, until 2030;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-003"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-003 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Holbert", "Colin Larson", "David Ortiz", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-01-21T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d95ff78f-7e46-4240-bfc4-2ae10a44d0dc"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-003"
source_hash: "5eeed6e922254f252278dfd5e067bf76ef42deb5c6c8628d755d89e5c475cdf2"
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 SB 21-003 (2021A) — Recreate Occupational Therapy Practice Act

The act recreates, with amendments, the "Occupational Therapy Practice Act" (Act), which repealed September 1, 2020. Specifically, the act:Recreates and extends the Act for 9 years, until 2030;

## 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/2021a_sb003_h_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_003_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (01/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_003_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_003_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (01/14/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_003_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (01/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_003_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (01/14/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_003_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (01/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_003_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **56–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Holbert — primary (person)
- Colin Larson — primary (person)
- David Ortiz — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to `introduction`
- **2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d95ff78f-7e46-4240-bfc4-2ae10a44d0dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).