---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Aid-in-Dying"
description: "Current law authorizes an individual with a terminal illness to request, and the individual's attending physician to prescribe to the individual, medication to hasten the individual's death (medical aid-in-dying). The act modifies the medical aid-in-dying laws by:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-068"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-068 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joann Ginal", "Kyle Brown"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-22T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3a944b9-bcd3-4769-b4dc-1a887e9271e5"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-068"
source_hash: "bafa4f15be9612aed03ddb40c53263c56ce0f33ae24d3eb5ff902f98762c7ef5"
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 24-068 (2024A) — Medical Aid-in-Dying

Current law authorizes an individual with a terminal illness to request, and the individual's attending physician to prescribe to the individual, medication to hasten the individual's death (medical aid-in-dying). The act modifies the medical aid-in-dying laws by:

## 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_sb068_h_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_068_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_068_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_068_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_068_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_068_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_068_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_068_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_068_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **41–20** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- PERM — **21–40** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Kyle Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/07/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-02-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended 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/e3a944b9-bcd3-4769-b4dc-1a887e9271e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).