---
type: "Bill"
title: "Extended Stay And Boarding Patients"
description: "The act requires the department of health care policy and financing to analyze how directed payment authority can be used as part of a comprehensive plan to facilitate an adequate network of services for children and youth by requiring each managed care entity to pay no less than state department-established fee schedule rates for services needed to promote clinical stabilization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1269"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1269 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Jeff Bridges", "Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/075de635-358e-49cb-b075-3691f0b23b30"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1269"
source_hash: "29532e150062efb016ca1f4f9c1d1da62b988cfe88f5334c04fd535ec89d08c4"
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 23-1269 (2023A) — Extended Stay And Boarding Patients

The act requires the department of health care policy and financing to analyze how directed payment authority can be used as part of a comprehensive plan to facilitate an adequate network of services for children and youth by requiring each managed care entity to pay no less than state department-established fee schedule rates for services needed to promote clinical stabilization.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_hb1269_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/29/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/12/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_h_pbh_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_h_pbh_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/04/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1269_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1269_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral 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/075de635-358e-49cb-b075-3691f0b23b30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).