republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1211.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Prior Authorization Requirements Health Care Service	Health care coverage - prior authorization for health care services - publication of requirements and restrictions - deadline for making determination - required criteria - exceptions for compliant providers - duration of prior authorization - rules. With regard to the prior authorization process used by carriers or private utilization review organizations (organizations) acting on behalf of carriers to review and determine whether a particular health care service prescribed by a health care provider is approved as a covered benefit under the patient's health benefit plan, the act requires carriers and organizations to:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1211	Colorado HB 19-1211 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Angela Williams Dafna Michaelson Jenet Yadira Caraveo	9	16	4	2019-02-25T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e3dd24f2-47d3-491d-9d53-73517037340a	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1211	725185216825038989104784c436315f6875371d0393dfc512c88be8119df6ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1211 (2019A) — Prior Authorization Requirements Health Care Service

Health care coverage - prior authorization for health care services - publication of requirements and restrictions - deadline for making determination - required criteria - exceptions for compliant providers - duration of prior authorization - rules. With regard to the prior authorization process used by carriers or private utilization review organizations (organizations) acting on behalf of carriers to review and determine whether a particular health care service prescribed by a health care provider is approved as a covered benefit under the patient's health benefit plan, the act requires carriers and organizations to:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 57–7 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 49–14 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–5 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 50–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Angela Williams — primary (person)
• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Yadira Caraveo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+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
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3dd24f2-47d3-491d-9d53-73517037340a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).