republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-176.md

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Bill	Protect Neutral Determinations In Health Insurance	The act clarifies 2008 legislation prohibiting discretionary clauses in certain plans and insurance policies and providing for the de novo standard of review (roughly translated as "anew" or "from a clean slate") in any court by:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-176	Colorado SB 20-176 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Brianna Titone Jessie Danielson Joann Ginal Mary Young	9	15	4	2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/461f75bc-d841-4441-974f-1b059815bdb0	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-176	51b045b14a1e7887b10838358caf38efbc054e60f880b98902d4f2b6ed70e794	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-176 (2020A) — Protect Neutral Determinations In Health Insurance

The act clarifies 2008 legislation prohibiting discretionary clauses in certain plans and insurance policies and providing for the de novo standard of review (roughly translated as "anew" or "from a clean slate") in any court by:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/05/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (07/14/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brianna Titone — primary (person)
• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Mary Young — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction
• 2020-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 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
• 2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/461f75bc-d841-4441-974f-1b059815bdb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).