republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-116.md

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Bill	Discounted Care for Indigent Patients	Current law requires a health-care facility to screen each uninsured patient for eligibility for public health insurance programs, discounted care through the Colorado indigent care program (CICP), and discounted care otherwise not reimbursed through the CICP. A patient qualifies for discounted care if the individual's household income is not more than 250% of the federal poverty level and the individual received a health-care service at a health-care facility (facility). The act limits the health-care services to those received in an inpatient or outpatient hospital setting and adds the requirement that a patient attest to residing in Colorado.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	SB 24-116	Colorado SB 24-116 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Iman Jodeh Janet Buckner	10	14	2	2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00	2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1a50f6a2-e516-4ba4-a459-24f2fbdb5bf4	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-116	7fdebca074fa2987947bc000cff1bf6cefe76fb1cae6c014c80c9e7165a74722	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 24-116 (2024A) — Discounted Care for Indigent Patients

Current law requires a health-care facility to screen each uninsured patient for eligibility for public health insurance programs, discounted care through the Colorado indigent care program (CICP), and discounted care otherwise not reimbursed through the CICP. A patient qualifies for discounted care if the individual's household income is not more than 250% of the federal poverty level and the individual received a health-care service at a health-care facility (facility). The act limits the health-care services to those received in an inpatient or outpatient hospital setting and adds the requirement that a patient attest to residing in Colorado.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/25/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/14/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/05/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/26/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/05/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/31/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 27–8 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 46–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
• Janet Buckner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a50f6a2-e516-4ba4-a459-24f2fbdb5bf4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).