republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1211.md

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Bill	Medicaid Fraud Control Unit	The bill establishes the medicaid fraud control unit (unit) in the department of law. The unit is responsible for investigation and prosecution of medicaid fraud and waste, as well as patient abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Prior to initiating a criminal prosecution, the unit must consult with the district attorney of the judicial district where the prosecution would be initiated. The department of health care policy and financing is authorized to require medicaid providers to include information about reporting medicaid fraud to the unit in any explanation of benefits provided to a medicaid beneficiary.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1211	Colorado HB 18-1211 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Cole Wist Irene Aguilar Jim Smallwood Mike Foote	9	15	2	2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9ab4c46b-262a-45b4-be9d-ce4fb3840616	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1211	1bcaa34df11e7ba0219fdb9ba2a33a0af6c2099feef90f126581598295b1add4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1211 (2018A) — Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

The bill establishes the medicaid fraud control unit (unit) in the department of law. The unit is responsible for investigation and prosecution of medicaid fraud and waste, as well as patient abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Prior to initiating a criminal prosecution, the unit must consult with the district attorney of the judicial district where the prosecution would be initiated. The department of health care policy and financing is authorized to require medicaid providers to include information about reporting medicaid fraud to the unit in any explanation of benefits provided to a medicaid beneficiary.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/25/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 61–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cole Wist — primary (person)
• Irene Aguilar — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Mike Foote — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/23/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/22/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/21/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ab4c46b-262a-45b4-be9d-ce4fb3840616. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).