republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/sb-17-065.md

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Bill	Transparency In Direct Pay Health Care Prices	The bill creates the 'Transparency in Health Care Prices Act', which requires health care professionals and health care facilities to make available to the public the health care prices they assess directly for common health care services they provide. Health care professionals and facilities are not required to submit their health care prices to any government agency for review or approval. Additionally, the act prohibits health insurers, government agencies, or other persons or entities from penalizing a health care recipient, provider, facility, employer, or other person or entity who pays directly for health care services or otherwise exercises rights under or complies with the act. The bill takes effect January 1, 2018.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	SB 17-065	Colorado SB 17-065 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Kevin Lundberg Susan Lontine	15	20	6	2017-01-13T07:00:00+00:00	2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5c65b0a3-aad7-4990-9335-ca5141cffd36	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-065	a1a6ad1de4641a7b27b0a9af796fc57ca1ffdc8abcccc8acecec961f81e4ca7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 17-065 (2017A) — Transparency In Direct Pay Health Care Prices

The bill creates the 'Transparency in Health Care Prices Act', which requires health care professionals and health care facilities to make available to the public the health care prices they assess directly for common health care services they provide. Health care professionals and facilities are not required to submit their health care prices to any government agency for review or approval. Additionally, the act prohibits health insurers, government agencies, or other persons or entities from penalizing a health care recipient, provider, facility, employer, or other person or entity who pays directly for health care services or otherwise exercises rights under or complies with the act. The bill takes effect January 1, 2018.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.001 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment L.002 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment L.007 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment L.009 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment L.010 (committee substitute) — source
6. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Engrossed (02/03/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Final Act (04/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Introduced (01/13/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. PA1 (01/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
11. PA2 (03/20/2017) (committee substitute) — source
12. Reengrossed (02/10/2017) (committee substitute) — source
13. Rerevised (03/24/2017) (committee substitute) — source
14. Revised (03/22/2017) (committee substitute) — source
15. Signed Act (04/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer Senate Bill 17-065, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 9-2. — 9–2 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment F). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.009 (Attachment K) to Senate Bill 17-065. The motion failed on a 5-5 vote, . — 5–5 (fail) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.007 (Attachment J) to Senate Bill 17-065. The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-065, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.010 (Attachment I) to Senate Bill 17-065. The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Kevin Lundberg — primary (person)
• Susan Lontine — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2017-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction
• 2017-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2017-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/03/2017 - No Amendments
• 2017-01-26T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-01-13T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c65b0a3-aad7-4990-9335-ca5141cffd36. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).