republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1077.md

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Bill	Informed Consent To Intimate Patient Examinations	The act prohibits a licensed physician or physician assistant; licensed medical resident, intern, or fellow; licensed professional nurse; advanced practice registered nurse; registered direct-entry midwife; or medical, nursing, or direct-entry midwife student or trainee (licensee, student, or trainee) from performing, and prohibits a licensed health-care facility from permitting a licensee, student, or trainee to perform, an intimate examination on a sedated or unconscious patient unless the patient has given specific informed consent to an intimate examination. Additionally, a student or trainee may perform an intimate examination on a sedated or unconscious patient for educational or training purposes only if:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1077	Colorado HB 23-1077 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Jenny Willford Lorena Garcia Sonya Jaquez Lewis	11	18	4	2023-01-19T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6e33b66b-bf41-44a7-98cf-d536c9ce5cbc	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1077	53e37f91f09c1b7443620ec79b5bd55722da4336a5ae4420a672853def5efd1f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1077 (2023A) — Informed Consent To Intimate Patient Examinations

The act prohibits a licensed physician or physician assistant; licensed medical resident, intern, or fellow; licensed professional nurse; advanced practice registered nurse; registered direct-entry midwife; or medical, nursing, or direct-entry midwife student or trainee (licensee, student, or trainee) from performing, and prohibits a licensed health-care facility from permitting a licensee, student, or trainee to perform, an intimate examination on a sedated or unconscious patient unless the patient has given specific informed consent to an intimate examination. Additionally, a student or trainee may perform an intimate examination on a sedated or unconscious patient for educational or training purposes only if:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/31/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 60–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Jenny Willford — primary (person)
• Lorena Garcia — primary (person)
• Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/17/2023 - No Amendments
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-01-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e33b66b-bf41-44a7-98cf-d536c9ce5cbc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).