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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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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.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  3. Final Act (committee substitute) — source
  4. Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
  5. Rerevised (committee substitute) — source
  6. Revised (committee substitute) — source
  7. 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).