republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-176.md

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Bill	Protections For People With An Eating Disorder	The act lists the minimum factors to be considered when determining medical necessity or appropriate level of care for an individual with an eating disorder. The act prohibits certain health benefit plans or the state medical assistance program from utilizing the body mass index, ideal body weight, or any other standard requiring an achieved weight when determining medical necessity criteria or appropriate level of care for an individual with a diagnosed eating disorder. The prohibition does not apply when determining medical necessity or the appropriate level of care for an individual diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, restricting subtype or binge-eating/purging subtype; however, body mass index, ideal body weight, or any other standard requiring an achieved body weight must not be the determining factor when assessing medical necessity or the appropriate level of care for an individual diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, restricting subtype or binge-eating/purging subtype.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-176	Colorado SB 23-176 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Brandi Bradley Chris deGruy Kennedy Dominick Moreno Lisa Cutter	10	15	5	2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e30e9425-cfab-4ad6-8bff-b1096193dbe9	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-176	1ecd1d2b148c5f36cc6ec694b0d06c1b05d560ed711dd2f267be58d4155d43b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-176 (2023A) — Protections For People With An Eating Disorder

The act lists the minimum factors to be considered when determining medical necessity or appropriate level of care for an individual with an eating disorder. The act prohibits certain health benefit plans or the state medical assistance program from utilizing the body mass index, ideal body weight, or any other standard requiring an achieved weight when determining medical necessity criteria or appropriate level of care for an individual with a diagnosed eating disorder. The prohibition does not apply when determining medical necessity or the appropriate level of care for an individual diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, restricting subtype or binge-eating/purging subtype; however, body mass index, ideal body weight, or any other standard requiring an achieved body weight must not be the determining factor when assessing medical necessity or the appropriate level of care for an individual diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, restricting subtype or binge-eating/purging subtype.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 51–13 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• AMEND — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 23–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandi Bradley — primary (person)
• Chris deGruy Kennedy — primary (person)
• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e30e9425-cfab-4ad6-8bff-b1096193dbe9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).