---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maximum Number of Employees to Qualify as Small Employer"
description: "For the purpose of providing health insurance coverage, current law defines a \"small employer\" as any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that employs between one and 100 employees during a calendar year. Effective January 1, 2026, the act amends the definition to define a \"small employer\" as any person that employs an average of at least one but not more than 50 employees during a calendar year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-073"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-073 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brianna Titone", "Elizabeth Velasco", "Jim Smallwood", "Robert Rodriguez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-22T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c52ff86-d2a8-4bbd-b708-d3bf95776c26"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-073"
source_hash: "fabd0ca542ec4e9b8fe9617a841b14e92c75f3cc7aeaad7b642ce04ed357d7c9"
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 24-073 (2024A) — Maximum Number of Employees to Qualify as Small Employer

For the purpose of providing health insurance coverage, current law defines a "small employer" as any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that employs between one and 100 employees during a calendar year. Effective January 1, 2026, the act amends the definition to define a "small employer" as any person that employs an average of at least one but not more than 50 employees during a calendar year.

## 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_sb073_h_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_073_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_073_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_073_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/20/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_073_h_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/26/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_073_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_073_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_073_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_073_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **56–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brianna Titone — primary (person)
- Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **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 - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22T07:00:00+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/8c52ff86-d2a8-4bbd-b708-d3bf95776c26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).