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| Bill | Measures to Improve Black Maternal Health Equity | The act requires measures to improve equity in maternal health, including:Requiring the Colorado medical board to consider, as part of its stakeholder process for continuing medical education, a requirement that a physician complete continuing medical education on cultural competence and equity in maternal care;Requiring the state board of nursing rules relating to continuing education to include rules relating to health-care provider attention to cultural competence and equity in providing health-care services;Authorizing the department of public health and environment (CDPHE), subject to available appropriations, to provide a health survey to additional birthing parents, beyond those currently surveyed, and to compile the data if surveyed;Requiring a health facility that provides labor and childbirth services to make available to a birthing parent and a birthing parent's companion, electronically or in writing, a statement on respectful labor and childbirth regarding rights and components, including freedom from harm, privacy and confidentiality, informed consent, and allowing a birthing parent to have a birthing companion present at the birth, and to make available information, including telephone contact information, for the appropriate state or federal agency to receive a complaint alleging discrimination in labor and childbirth services;Subject to available federal grant funding for the maternal health task force (task force) established by CDPHE, ensuring that the maternal health task force includes at least one advocate representing populations with the worst maternal mortality outcomes in the state; andBeginning October 1, 2026, with respect to CDPHE's Colorado maternal mortality review committee, changing the reporting to the general assembly every 3 years concerning maternal health outcomes and equity from July to October and requiring the reporting of certain maternal health outcomes for populations known to have the worst maternal mortality outcomes in the state.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) | us/states/co | Colorado General Assembly | 2026A | HB 1044 | Colorado HB 1044 (2026A) |
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Colorado HB 1044 (2026A) — Measures to Improve Black Maternal Health Equity
The act requires measures to improve equity in maternal health, including:Requiring the Colorado medical board to consider, as part of its stakeholder process for continuing medical education, a requirement that a physician complete continuing medical education on cultural competence and equity in maternal care;Requiring the state board of nursing rules relating to continuing education to include rules relating to health-care provider attention to cultural competence and equity in providing health-care services;Authorizing the department of public health and environment (CDPHE), subject to available appropriations, to provide a health survey to additional birthing parents, beyond those currently surveyed, and to compile the data if surveyed;Requiring a health facility that provides labor and childbirth services to make available to a birthing parent and a birthing parent's companion, electronically or in writing, a statement on respectful labor and childbirth regarding rights and components, including freedom from harm, privacy and confidentiality, informed consent, and allowing a birthing parent to have a birthing companion present at the birth, and to make available information, including telephone contact information, for the appropriate state or federal agency to receive a complaint alleging discrimination in labor and childbirth services;Subject to available federal grant funding for the maternal health task force (task force) established by CDPHE, ensuring that the maternal health task force includes at least one advocate representing populations with the worst maternal mortality outcomes in the state; andBeginning October 1, 2026, with respect to CDPHE's Colorado maternal mortality review committee, changing the reporting to the general assembly every 3 years concerning maternal health outcomes and equity from July to October and requiring the reporting of certain maternal health outcomes for populations known to have the worst maternal mortality outcomes in the state.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Final Act (committee substitute) — source
- Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Rerevised (committee substitute) — source
- Revised (committee substitute) — source
- Signed Act (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment G). — pass (pass) · lower
- BILL — pass (pass) · lower
- Adopt amendment L.003 (Attachment I). — pass (pass) · lower
- Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment H). — pass (pass) · lower
- Adopt amendment L.005 (Attachment J). — pass (pass) · lower
- REPASS — pass (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — pass (pass) · upper
- Refer House Bill 26-1044, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · lower
- Refer House Bill 26-1044 to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- A. Benavidez — primary (person)
- J. Joseph — primary (person)
- N. Ricks — primary (person)
- R. English — primary (person)
- T. Exum — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Goldstein — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-05-05 Governor Signed
executive-signature - 2026-05-01 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-05-01 Signed by the President of the Senate
passage - 2026-05-01 Signed by the Speaker of the House
passage - 2026-04-14 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- 2026-04-07 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- 2026-04-06 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
passage, reading-3 - 2026-04-02 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor
reading-2 - 2026-04-01 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2026 - No Amendments
- 2026-03-31 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/01/2026 - No Amendments
- 2026-03-26 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
committee-passage, referral-committee - 2026-03-06 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services
introduction - 2026-03-03 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
passage, reading-3 - 2026-03-02 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- 2026-02-25 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
committee-passage, referral-committee - 2026-01-14 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services
introduction
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55c3a0a8-e630-4959-bb01-86a3bf2775e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).