republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-041.md

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Bill	Health Insurance Contract Carrier And Policyholder	Health insurance - required contract provisions between a carrier and a health care provider - payment of premiums - provision of benefits. The act requires a contract for a health benefit plan between a carrier and a policyholder to state, as an alternative to existing premium payment requirements, that a policyholder must pay premiums to the carrier through the date that the individual covered under the policy is no longer eligible or covered if the policyholder notifies the carrier within 10 business days after the date of ineligibility or noncoverage because the individual left employment without notice to the employer or the employee was terminated for gross misconduct.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-041	Colorado SB 19-041 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Jim Smallwood Tracy Kraft-Tharp	10	13	4	2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00	2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bc2f1459-3305-481e-b86f-dc017a40882b	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-041	29cb2e182ebed8394e733cf350d8e09892363736c55e9bd925e6557bf2901df7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-041 (2019A) — Health Insurance Contract Carrier And Policyholder

Health insurance - required contract provisions between a carrier and a health care provider - payment of premiums - provision of benefits. The act requires a contract for a health benefit plan between a carrier and a policyholder to state, as an alternative to existing premium payment requirements, that a policyholder must pay premiums to the carrier through the date that the individual covered under the policy is no longer eligible or covered if the policyholder notifies the carrier within 10 business days after the date of ineligibility or noncoverage because the individual left employment without notice to the employer or the employee was terminated for gross misconduct.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/14/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/21/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 29–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 29–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Tracy Kraft-Tharp — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction
• 2019-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc2f1459-3305-481e-b86f-dc017a40882b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).