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type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance Coverage Mental Health Wellness Exam"
description: "The act adds a requirement, as part of mandatory health insurance coverage of preventive health care services, that health plans cover an annual mental health wellness examination of up to 60 minutes that is performed by a qualified mental health care provider. The coverage must:Be comparable to the coverage of a physical examination;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1068"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1068 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brianna Titone", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Dominick Moreno", "Jim Smallwood"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b2c5f3b-9275-4bb5-a25c-b08cc5d587bc"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1068"
source_hash: "965c23b003eb3dbdd1d7180bf5d48c383f7a02de1cf96e633b31bfd93357f006"
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 21-1068 (2021A) — Insurance Coverage Mental Health Wellness Exam
The act adds a requirement, as part of mandatory health insurance coverage of preventive health care services, that health plans cover an annual mental health wellness examination of up to 60 minutes that is performed by a qualified mental health care provider. The coverage must:Be comparable to the coverage of a physical examination;
## 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_hb1068_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/17/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (05/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068tlg_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/14/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/18/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/27/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1068_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (07/06/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1068_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **54–11** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brianna Titone — primary (person)
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b2c5f3b-9275-4bb5-a25c-b08cc5d587bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).