republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1041.md

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Bill	Physician Assistants Financial Responsibility Requirements	The act specifies that a physician assistant who has been practicing for at least 3 years must comply with the same financial responsibility requirements to which physicians are subject, namely to maintain professional liability coverage of at least $1 million per incident and $3 million aggregate per year. Additionally, the act authorizes the Colorado medical board to exempt physician assistants from the financial responsibility requirements, or lessen the requirements, to the same extent permitted for physicians.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1041	Colorado HB 20-1041 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Hugh McKean Lisa Cutter Rhonda Fields	8	12	2	2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/39737ecd-129a-42c4-82b5-1b076e575206	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1041	63a98ae414683daa8530bde07c4930935b2a92d6f9c735026ff76cb45373e099	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1041 (2020A) — Physician Assistants Financial Responsibility Requirements

The act specifies that a physician assistant who has been practicing for at least 3 years must comply with the same financial responsibility requirements to which physicians are subject, namely to maintain professional liability coverage of at least $1 million per incident and $3 million aggregate per year. Additionally, the act authorizes the Colorado medical board to exempt physician assistants from the financial responsibility requirements, or lessen the requirements, to the same extent permitted for physicians.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/14/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/06/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 61–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hugh McKean — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2020-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39737ecd-129a-42c4-82b5-1b076e575206. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).