republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1183.md

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Bill	Prior Authorization For Step-therapy Exception	The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) review and determine if an exception to step therapy is granted if the prescribing provider submits a prior authorization request with justification and supporting clinical documentation for treatment of a serious or complex medical condition. The act requires the state department to provide a response to a prior authorization request for a step-therapy exception within 24 hours after receipt of the request.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1183	Colorado HB 23-1183 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Emily Sirota Faith Winter Iman Jodeh	10	15	4	2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51d1d646-fbe1-47f1-b81d-e68a50c62e2a	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1183	8e31812c4fa869ca36a7f772681b06bda026ce806e22103af25b75e7468c60cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1183 (2023A) — Prior Authorization For Step-therapy Exception

The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) review and determine if an exception to step therapy is granted if the prescribing provider submits a prior authorization request with justification and supporting clinical documentation for treatment of a serious or complex medical condition. The act requires the state department to provide a response to a prior authorization request for a step-therapy exception within 24 hours after receipt of the request.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 57–5 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 59–3 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 59–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Iman Jodeh — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2023-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51d1d646-fbe1-47f1-b81d-e68a50c62e2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).