---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revision to Nurse & Nurse Aide Practice Act"
description: "In 2025, House Bill 25-1082 added physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to the professions subject to discipline for a failure to timely complete a medical certification for a certificate of death. The act adds the repeated or willful failure, without reasonable cause, to comply with the requirements of completing a medical certification for a certificate of death to the grounds for discipline in the 'Nurse and Nurse Aide Practice Act'.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2026A"
identifier: "HB 1296"
citation: "Colorado HB 1296 (2026A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care & Health Insurance", "Professions & Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Bradley", "C. Espenoza", "J. Rich", "M. Ball", "M. Carter"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-25"
last_action: "2026-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e3d42d3-703f-43fc-8f4a-07e911cce16a"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1296"
source_hash: "a1a2e21cd98aa2eb3f6a056a983f291e6c6045c50047fc054c68f854dcd5f9eb"
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 1296 (2026A) — Revision to Nurse & Nurse Aide Practice Act

In 2025, House Bill 25-1082 added physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to the professions subject to discipline for a failure to timely complete a medical certification for a certificate of death. The act adds the repeated or willful failure, without reasonable cause, to comply with the requirements of completing a medical certification for a certificate of death to the grounds for discipline in the 'Nurse and Nurse Aide Practice Act'.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112618/download)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/113005/download)
3. **Final Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115201/download)
4. **Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/113049/download)
5. **Rerevised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114209/download)
6. **Revised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114143/download)
7. **Signed Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115969/download)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 26-1296 to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Refer House Bill 26-1296 to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Bradley — primary (person)
- C. Espenoza — primary (person)
- J. Rich — primary (person)
- M. Ball — primary (person)
- M. Carter — primary (person)
- A. Flanell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
- T. Winter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-05-05** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-28** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-04-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2026-04-07** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-06** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2026-03-31** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-12** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2026-03-09** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-06** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2026-03-05** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e3d42d3-703f-43fc-8f4a-07e911cce16a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).