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| Bill | Revision to Nurse & Nurse Aide Practice Act | In 2025, House Bill 25-1082 added physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to the professions subject to discipline for a failure to timely complete a medical certification for a certificate of death. The act adds the repeated or willful failure, without reasonable cause, to comply with the requirements of completing a medical certification for a certificate of death to the grounds for discipline in the 'Nurse and Nurse Aide Practice Act'.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) | us/states/co | Colorado General Assembly | 2026A | HB 1296 | Colorado HB 1296 (2026A) |
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7 | 12 | 3 | 2026-02-25 | 2026-05-05 | openstates | ocd-bill/2e3d42d3-703f-43fc-8f4a-07e911cce16a | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1296 | a1a2e21cd98aa2eb3f6a056a983f291e6c6045c50047fc054c68f854dcd5f9eb | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Colorado HB 1296 (2026A) — Revision to Nurse & Nurse Aide Practice Act
In 2025, House Bill 25-1082 added physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to the professions subject to discipline for a failure to timely complete a medical certification for a certificate of death. The act adds the repeated or willful failure, without reasonable cause, to comply with the requirements of completing a medical certification for a certificate of death to the grounds for discipline in the 'Nurse and Nurse Aide Practice Act'.(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
- Refer House Bill 26-1296 to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · lower
- Refer House Bill 26-1296 to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. — pass (pass) · upper
- BILL — pass (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- B. Bradley — primary (person)
- C. Espenoza — primary (person)
- J. Rich — primary (person)
- M. Ball — primary (person)
- M. Carter — primary (person)
- A. Flanell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
- T. Winter — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-05-05 Governor Signed
executive-signature - 2026-04-28 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate
passage - 2026-04-28 Signed by the Speaker of the House
passage - 2026-04-07 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
passage, reading-3 - 2026-04-06 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments
reading-2 - 2026-03-31 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
committee-passage - 2026-03-12 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
introduction - 2026-03-09 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
passage, reading-3 - 2026-03-06 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- 2026-03-05 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
committee-passage, referral-committee - 2026-02-25 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs
introduction
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2e3d42d3-703f-43fc-8f4a-07e911cce16a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).