---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensure of Critical Access Hospitals"
description: "Currently, critical access hospitals must be licensed as general hospitals under state law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-121"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-121 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Mary Young", "Richard Holtorf", "Rod Pelton"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7245b454-b325-4fb8-9c9c-16c75e420329"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-121"
source_hash: "828c3aa90c525d3535e95853c68c472af163bdb0732530d289ac1cd79b8dbb8e"
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 24-121 (2024A) — Licensure of Critical Access Hospitals

Currently, critical access hospitals must be licensed as general hospitals under state law.

## 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_sb121_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/30/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_121_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_121_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **57–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Mary Young — primary (person)
- Richard Holtorf — primary (person)
- Rod Pelton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05T07:00:00+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/7245b454-b325-4fb8-9c9c-16c75e420329`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).