---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighter Heart Benefits Trust"
description: "The act removes the ability of most firefighter employers to select accident insurance, self-insurance, or a self-insurance pool as options to provide statutorily required monetary benefits to a firefighter who has experienced a heart and circulatory malfunction. As a result, all firefighter employers except for those exempted by the act must participate in a multiple employer health trust in order to provide such benefits. The act exempts firefighter employers that are cities and counties or municipalities that, as of July 2022, have a population of 400,000 or more and, as of April 30, 2024, have enacted an ordinance to provide the required monetary benefits that remains in effect."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-089"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-089 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lindsey Daugherty", "Robert Rodriguez", "Ron Weinberg"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-24T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-24T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ece21a5-f4ef-4cd7-89c6-de3ca0e02bb1"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-089"
source_hash: "029cbd5d125fd5c44d54b4be29cc36cd1d8215a0cd490bf01e9ede4431534d99"
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 24-089 (2024A) — Firefighter Heart Benefits Trust

The act removes the ability of most firefighter employers to select accident insurance, self-insurance, or a self-insurance pool as options to provide statutorily required monetary benefits to a firefighter who has experienced a heart and circulatory malfunction. As a result, all firefighter employers except for those exempted by the act must participate in a multiple employer health trust in order to provide such benefits. The act exempts firefighter employers that are cities and counties or municipalities that, as of July 2022, have a population of 400,000 or more and, as of April 30, 2024, have enacted an ordinance to provide the required monetary benefits that remains in effect.

## 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_sb089_h_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/21/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_089_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_089_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_089_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_089_h_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_089_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/29/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_089_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/26/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_089_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_089_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **60–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Ron Weinberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ece21a5-f4ef-4cd7-89c6-de3ca0e02bb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).