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Bill	Peer Support Professionals Behavioral Health	The act requires the department of human services (state department) to establish procedures to approve recovery support services organizations for reimbursement of peer support professional services. The act also gives the executive director of the state department rule-making authority to establish other criteria and standards as necessary.The act permits a recovery support services organization to charge and submit for reimbursement from the medical assistance program certain eligible peer support services provided by peer support professionals.The act authorizes the department of health care policy and financing to reimburse recovery support services organizations for permissible claims for peer support services submitted under the medical services program.The act requires contracts entered into between the state department's office of behavioral health and designated managed service organizations to include terms and conditions related to the support of peer-run recovery support services organizations.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $28,654 is appropriated to the state department from the general fund for use by the office of behavioral health to implement this act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1021	Colorado HB 21-1021 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Dennis Hisey Rachel Zenzinger Rod Pelton Yadira Caraveo	11	15	2	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-18T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/394892ea-d188-4581-9827-129a8e551bca	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1021	175715a447ad655a0ee7ef479ca1435a6bf98ab90a04f65bf87a1e2bebea2c99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1021 (2021A) — Peer Support Professionals Behavioral Health

The act requires the department of human services (state department) to establish procedures to approve recovery support services organizations for reimbursement of peer support professional services. The act also gives the executive director of the state department rule-making authority to establish other criteria and standards as necessary.The act permits a recovery support services organization to charge and submit for reimbursement from the medical assistance program certain eligible peer support services provided by peer support professionals.The act authorizes the department of health care policy and financing to reimburse recovery support services organizations for permissible claims for peer support services submitted under the medical services program.The act requires contracts entered into between the state department's office of behavioral health and designated managed service organizations to include terms and conditions related to the support of peer-run recovery support services organizations.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $28,654 is appropriated to the state department from the general fund for use by the office of behavioral health to implement this 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. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 51–12 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
• Rod Pelton — primary (person)
• Yadira Caraveo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-18T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/394892ea-d188-4581-9827-129a8e551bca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).