---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eliminate Premium Tax to Health Insurance Affordability Fund"
description: "Starting in the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the act discontinues the allocation of a portion of premium tax revenues to the health insurance affordability cash fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1470"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1470 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rick Taggart", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00ebd325-a264-4eb7-b7e7-629b0c510862"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1470"
source_hash: "edaea748a1d5ebea0160b3b7e6f114f0245cf650794d8608fe7986824a6a9d5a"
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 24-1470 (2024A) — Eliminate Premium Tax to Health Insurance Affordability Fund

Starting in the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the act discontinues the allocation of a portion of premium tax revenues to the health insurance affordability cash fund.

## 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_hb1470_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1470_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1470_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1470_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (05/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1470_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (05/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1470_rr3.pdf)
7. **Revised (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1470_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (06/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1470_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMEND — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **61–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2024-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00ebd325-a264-4eb7-b7e7-629b0c510862`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).