republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1169.md

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Bill	Prohibit Discrimination Organ Transplant Recipient	The act prohibits a health-care provider, hospital, or other entity involved in making a decision regarding a person's eligibility to receive an anatomical gift, organ transplant, or any related treatment or services from discriminating against that person solely on the basis of a disability. The act authorizes an aggrieved person to commence a civil action for injunctive and equitable relief in the appropriate district court.The act also prohibits a health insurance carrier that provides coverage for an organ transplant from denying or limiting coverage to a covered person for an anatomical gift, organ transplant, or any related treatment or services due to a disability. The act clarifies that a health benefit plan is not required to include coverage for an organ transplant.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1169	Colorado HB 21-1169 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen David Ortiz Jessie Danielson Tonya Van Beber	8	12	2	2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/93ac478a-b9f1-47fd-9e77-5a4ba3e71978	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1169	9787bbe0067decd3cff7e1359728f7790a131f46719b3fc86bb8a4a771f44fbf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1169 (2021A) — Prohibit Discrimination Organ Transplant Recipient

The act prohibits a health-care provider, hospital, or other entity involved in making a decision regarding a person's eligibility to receive an anatomical gift, organ transplant, or any related treatment or services from discriminating against that person solely on the basis of a disability. The act authorizes an aggrieved person to commence a civil action for injunctive and equitable relief in the appropriate district court.The act also prohibits a health insurance carrier that provides coverage for an organ transplant from denying or limiting coverage to a covered person for an anatomical gift, organ transplant, or any related treatment or services due to a disability. The act clarifies that a health benefit plan is not required to include coverage for an organ transplant.(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 (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 59–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• David Ortiz — primary (person)
• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Tonya Van Beber — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93ac478a-b9f1-47fd-9e77-5a4ba3e71978. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).