republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1021.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peer Support Professionals Behavioral Health"
description: "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.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1021"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1021 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Hisey", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rod Pelton", "Yadira Caraveo"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/394892ea-d188-4581-9827-129a8e551bca"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1021"
source_hash: "175715a447ad655a0ee7ef479ca1435a6bf98ab90a04f65bf87a1e2bebea2c99"
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 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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_hb1021_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021pbh_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/30/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021fin.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021app.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/18/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1021_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/18/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1021_signed.pdf)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/394892ea-d188-4581-9827-129a8e551bca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).