---
type: "Bill"
title: "End Nursing Provider Wage Enhancement Payments"
description: "The act prohibits the department of health care policy and financing (department) from making a wage enhancement supplemental payment to an eligible nursing home provider regardless of when the services were provided. The act reduces the 2025-26 state fiscal year appropriation to the department for medical and long-term care services for medicaid eligible individuals by $4,359,961.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2026A"
identifier: "HB 1177"
citation: "Colorado HB 1177 (2026A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care & Health Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Kirkmeyer", "E. Sirota", "J. Amabile", "J. Bridges", "K. Brown", "R. Taggart"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-06"
last_action: "2026-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a099fd2-ab20-4299-a7d1-60536d7b741c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1177"
source_hash: "b387c62c2c6ef56b9cdd79bf5d7911abba84a2dd33ab4843a9e159bdb0a58927"
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 1177 (2026A) — End Nursing Provider Wage Enhancement Payments

The act prohibits the department of health care policy and financing (department) from making a wage enhancement supplemental payment to an eligible nursing home provider regardless of when the services were provided. The act reduces the 2025-26 state fiscal year appropriation to the department for medical and long-term care services for medicaid eligible individuals by $4,359,961.(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/111452/download)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/111778/download)
3. **Final Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112590/download)
4. **Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/111975/download)
5. **Rerevised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112379/download)
6. **Revised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112224/download)
7. **Signed Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112722/download)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 26-1177 to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Refer House Bill 26-1177 to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- E. Sirota — primary (person)
- J. Amabile — primary (person)
- J. Bridges — primary (person)
- K. Brown — primary (person)
- R. Taggart — primary (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-27** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-02-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2026-02-20** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2026-02-18** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-17** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2026-02-12** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2026-02-10** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-06** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a099fd2-ab20-4299-a7d1-60536d7b741c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).