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type: "Bill"
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title: "Mental Health Parity Insurance Medicaid"
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description: "Behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorders - parity in coverage - private insurance - medicaid - coverage of medication-assisted treatment - parity reporting requirements - compliance with federal law - complaints from ombudsman for behavioral health access to care - rules - appropriation. The act enacts the \"Behavioral Health Care Coverage Modernization Act\" to address issues related to coverage of behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorder services under private health insurance and the state medical assistance program (medicaid)."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2019A"
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identifier: "HB 19-1269"
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citation: "Colorado HB 19-1269 (2019A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Joann Ginal", "Lisa Cutter", "Tom Sullivan"]
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version_count: 11
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d39ba2a-26d8-4593-90ce-319f7ec74607"
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source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1269"
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source_hash: "780376a54b611aa6257cbe0048b459adbe2707e1c66154ed57fd8773455f0540"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado HB 19-1269 (2019A) — Mental Health Parity Insurance Medicaid
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Behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorders - parity in coverage - private insurance - medicaid - coverage of medication-assisted treatment - parity reporting requirements - compliance with federal law - complaints from ombudsman for behavioral health access to care - rules - appropriation. The act enacts the "Behavioral Health Care Coverage Modernization Act" to address issues related to coverage of behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorder services under private health insurance and the state medical assistance program (medicaid).
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1269_s_app_003.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/13/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (04/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269phc_01.pdf)
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6. **PA2 (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269app.pdf)
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7. **PA3 (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269sapp_01.pdf)
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8. **Reengrossed (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269_ren.pdf)
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9. **Rerevised (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269_rer.pdf)
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10. **Revised (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1269_rev.pdf)
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11. **Signed Act (05/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1269_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- REPASS — **45–19** (pass) · lower
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- CONCUR — **48–16** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **30–5** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **48–15** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
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- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
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- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
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- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
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- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
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- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
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- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
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- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
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- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
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- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2019-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d39ba2a-26d8-4593-90ce-319f7ec74607`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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