---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing Veterinary Services Through Telehealth"
description: "The act concerns the use of telehealth to provide veterinary services. The act defines different types of telehealth tools that can be used in a veterinary practice."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1048"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1048 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byron Pelton", "Joann Ginal", "Karen McCormick", "Matthew Martinez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0a1feed-db7e-4cd9-894b-72c7cbe0442a"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1048"
source_hash: "88dae1092bd769c953574ab1c92e1aa7c7c7e22729b3196ad95dea46af12b07b"
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 24-1048 (2024A) — Providing Veterinary Services Through Telehealth

The act concerns the use of telehealth to provide veterinary services. The act defines different types of telehealth tools that can be used in a veterinary practice.

## 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/2024a_hb1048_s_agr_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1048_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1048_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1048_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1048_h_awn_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1048_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (02/26/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1048_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (02/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1048_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1048_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **63–1** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **31–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Byron Pelton — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
- Matthew Martinez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2024-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0a1feed-db7e-4cd9-894b-72c7cbe0442a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).