republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1149.md

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Bill	Prior Authorization Requirements Alternatives	With regard to prior authorization requirements imposed by carriers, private utilization review organizations (organizations), and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) for certain health-care services and prescription drug benefits covered under a health benefit plan, the act requires carriers, organizations, and PBMs, as applicable, to adopt a program, in consultation with participating providers, to eliminate or substantially modify prior authorization requirements in a manner that removes administrative burdens on qualified providers and their patients with regard to certain health-care services, prescription drugs, or related benefits based on specified criteria. Additionally, a carrier or organization is prohibited from denying a claim for a health-care procedure a provider provides, in addition or related to an approved surgical procedure, under specified circumstances or from denying an initially approved surgical procedure on the basis that the provider provided an additional or a related health-care procedure.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1149	Colorado HB 24-1149 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Dylan Roberts Lisa Frizell Shannon Bird	10	16	2	2024-01-30T07:00:00+00:00	2024-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e4830644-7b4e-4175-8528-595f8ccea96b	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1149	3593a87b01942f01f98932133df53553390b47b64a75dd6b27693614a7394955	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1149 (2024A) — Prior Authorization Requirements Alternatives

With regard to prior authorization requirements imposed by carriers, private utilization review organizations (organizations), and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) for certain health-care services and prescription drug benefits covered under a health benefit plan, the act requires carriers, organizations, and PBMs, as applicable, to adopt a program, in consultation with participating providers, to eliminate or substantially modify prior authorization requirements in a manner that removes administrative burdens on qualified providers and their patients with regard to certain health-care services, prescription drugs, or related benefits based on specified criteria. Additionally, a carrier or organization is prohibited from denying a claim for a health-care procedure a provider provides, in addition or related to an approved surgical procedure, under specified circumstances or from denying an initially approved surgical procedure on the basis that the provider provided an additional or a related health-care procedure.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/08/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/30/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/01/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/11/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/25/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/24/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 55–6 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 27–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Lisa Frizell — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/24/2024 - No Amendments
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2024-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2024-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4830644-7b4e-4175-8528-595f8ccea96b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).