republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1425.md

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Bill	Hospital Patient Visitation Rights During COVID-19	The act acknowledges the challenges to the state's health care systems caused by the COVID-19 virus, which has resulted in hospitals, in their efforts to keep patients and employees in a safe environment and minimize the risk of spreading the virus, limiting patients' ability to have loved ones visit them during hospitalizations. The act encourages hospitals to follow infection prevention protocols and identify ways to improve patient visitation policies.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1425	Colorado HB 20-1425 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Edie Hooton Jim Smallwood Joann Ginal Tim Geitner	9	12	4	2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00	2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3627ded7-f1ad-4199-be0d-c30469cdb281	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1425	810d68e70eaf3d955acb22f3cb2b3c30515de5747015e0ad517fb9df358651db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1425 (2020A) — Hospital Patient Visitation Rights During COVID-19

The act acknowledges the challenges to the state's health care systems caused by the COVID-19 virus, which has resulted in hospitals, in their efforts to keep patients and employees in a safe environment and minimize the risk of spreading the virus, limiting patients' ability to have loved ones visit them during hospitalizations. The act encourages hospitals to follow infection prevention protocols and identify ways to improve patient visitation policies.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/22/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (06/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (06/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/15/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 20–43 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 47–17 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 37–27 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edie Hooton — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Tim Geitner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3627ded7-f1ad-4199-be0d-c30469cdb281. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).