republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-073.md

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Bill	Maximum Number of Employees to Qualify as Small Employer	For the purpose of providing health insurance coverage, current law defines a "small employer" as any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that employs between one and 100 employees during a calendar year. Effective January 1, 2026, the act amends the definition to define a "small employer" as any person that employs an average of at least one but not more than 50 employees during a calendar year.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	SB 24-073	Colorado SB 24-073 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Brianna Titone Elizabeth Velasco Jim Smallwood Robert Rodriguez	9	14	5	2024-01-22T07:00:00+00:00	2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8c52ff86-d2a8-4bbd-b708-d3bf95776c26	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-073	fabd0ca542ec4e9b8fe9617a841b14e92c75f3cc7aeaad7b642ce04ed357d7c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 24-073 (2024A) — Maximum Number of Employees to Qualify as Small Employer

For the purpose of providing health insurance coverage, current law defines a "small employer" as any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that employs between one and 100 employees during a calendar year. Effective January 1, 2026, the act amends the definition to define a "small employer" as any person that employs an average of at least one but not more than 50 employees during a calendar year.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/20/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/26/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/01/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 56–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brianna Titone — primary (person)
• Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2024-02-26T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2024-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c52ff86-d2a8-4bbd-b708-d3bf95776c26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).