republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1010.md

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Bill	Freestanding Emergency Departments Licensure	Freestanding emergency departments - mandatory licensure - exceptions - appropriation. Effective July 1, 2022, the act creates a new license, referred to as a "freestanding emergency department license". The department of public health and environment (department) may issue the license to a health facility that offers emergency care, that may offer primary and urgent care services, and that is either:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1010	Colorado HB 19-1010 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Brittany Pettersen Kyle Mullica Lois Landgraf	10	16	2	2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/19d46f6b-17c7-48c4-b753-974ca6a765f3	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1010	83169894e2bcd10a45df011f498aa212c5ca3c199a83e767ab55ad5601beef77	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1010 (2019A) — Freestanding Emergency Departments Licensure

Freestanding emergency departments - mandatory licensure - exceptions - appropriation. Effective July 1, 2022, the act creates a new license, referred to as a "freestanding emergency department license". The department of public health and environment (department) may issue the license to a health facility that offers emergency care, that may offer primary and urgent care services, and that is either:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/14/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (02/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/11/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 54–9 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 24–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
• Lois Landgraf — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-16T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19d46f6b-17c7-48c4-b753-974ca6a765f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).