republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1236.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Coverage Easy Enrollment Program"
description: "The act creates the Colorado affordable health care coverage easy enrollment program (program) for the purpose of leveraging the tax filing process to connect uninsured Coloradans to free or subsidized health care coverage through a health care coverage affordability program, which includes medicaid, the children's basic health plan, or a subsidized health benefit plan, or other creditable coverage. The program will allow Coloradans to request on their state income tax returns that the Colorado health benefit exchange (exchange) assess whether uninsured household members are potentially eligible for free or subsidized health care coverage. If the tax filer requests that the eligibility of uninsured household members be assessed under the program, the tax filer will receive information about coverage options and assistance with enrollment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1236"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1236 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack Tate", "Jeff Bridges", "Perry Will", "Susan Lontine"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ad5eed9-4dcf-4995-ac15-f60c420e7042"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1236"
source_hash: "751c1481e9a14d51fb23a9eb1d387552ad7d06dd845c9de2ddebb8c41656e5cb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 20-1236 (2020A) — Health Care Coverage Easy Enrollment Program

The act creates the Colorado affordable health care coverage easy enrollment program (program) for the purpose of leveraging the tax filing process to connect uninsured Coloradans to free or subsidized health care coverage through a health care coverage affordability program, which includes medicaid, the children's basic health plan, or a subsidized health benefit plan, or other creditable coverage. The program will allow Coloradans to request on their state income tax returns that the Colorado health benefit exchange (exchange) assess whether uninsured household members are potentially eligible for free or subsidized health care coverage. If the tax filer requests that the eligibility of uninsured household members be assessed under the program, the tax filer will receive information about coverage options and assistance with enrollment.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_hb1236_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/22/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/31/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/24/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236fin_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/01/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236_rer.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (2) (06/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236_rr3.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1236_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (07/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1236_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **43–21** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **57–6** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **27–7** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **41–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack Tate — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Perry Will — primary (person)
- Susan Lontine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
- **2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ad5eed9-4dcf-4995-ac15-f60c420e7042`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).