republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1232.md

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Bill	Equity In Access To Clinical Trials In Medicaid	The act authorizes the state medical assistance program (medicaid) to cover routine costs associated with phase I through phase IV clinical trials involving the prevention, detection, diagnosis, or treatment of life-threatening or debilitating diseases or conditions. The medicaid recipient's (recipient's) treating physician must determine that the recipient has a qualifying disease or condition and that the recipient meets the selection criteria for the clinical trial. The clinical trial must be an approved clinical trial, as described in the act, and must be conducted by agencies and organizations specified in the act.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1232	Colorado HB 20-1232 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Kevin Priola Larry Liston Nancy Todd	8	15	2	2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-10T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8c06925e-5014-4684-b5a9-f191fa4f5dac	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1232	c563dce58eaa51935f8168d6fbde26ee94d812b4ebc11aea2b5636ac6d34623a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1232 (2020A) — Equity In Access To Clinical Trials In Medicaid

The act authorizes the state medical assistance program (medicaid) to cover routine costs associated with phase I through phase IV clinical trials involving the prevention, detection, diagnosis, or treatment of life-threatening or debilitating diseases or conditions. The medicaid recipient's (recipient's) treating physician must determine that the recipient has a qualifying disease or condition and that the recipient meets the selection criteria for the clinical trial. The clinical trial must be an approved clinical trial, as described in the act, and must be conducted by agencies and organizations specified in the act.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/26/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/26/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/31/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/27/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (06/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (06/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (07/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)
• Larry Liston — primary (person)
• Nancy Todd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-10T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2020-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/30/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 05/26/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance + Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c06925e-5014-4684-b5a9-f191fa4f5dac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).