---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reproductive Health Care Program"
description: "The act requires the department of health care policy and financing to administer a reproductive health care program (program) that provides contraceptive methods and counseling services to participants. The program must offer each participant at least a one-year supply of the requested contraceptive method or an alternative contraceptive method and not impose cost-sharing requirements.Beginning in fiscal year 2023-24, the department shall analyze and report the cost-effectiveness of the program to the public during its annual SMART act hearing.The act appropriates $4,125,347 from the general fund to the department of health care policy and financing to implement the act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-009"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-009 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sonya Jaquez Lewis", "Yadira Caraveo"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e66626e-d20b-4a52-8a1c-497ae49a4ce0"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-009"
source_hash: "d73c25482e3d8a8f330f1622359540e3b03fea327319b69644f7efc000994c1f"
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 21-009 (2021A) — Reproductive Health Care Program

The act requires the department of health care policy and financing to administer a reproductive health care program (program) that provides contraceptive methods and counseling services to participants. The program must offer each participant at least a one-year supply of the requested contraceptive method or an alternative contraceptive method and not impose cost-sharing requirements.Beginning in fiscal year 2023-24, the department shall analyze and report the cost-effectiveness of the program to the public during its annual SMART act hearing.The act appropriates $4,125,347 from the general fund to the department of health care policy and financing to implement the act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## 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_sb009_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/11/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_009_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_009_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_009_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (05/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_009sapp_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/12/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_009_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/03/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_009_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_009_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (07/06/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_009_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)
- Yadira Caraveo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e66626e-d20b-4a52-8a1c-497ae49a4ce0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).