republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1190.md

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Bill	Defining Telemedicine For Medical Practitioners	The act amends the definition of "telemedicine" in the "Colorado Medical Practice Act" to state that the term means the delivery of medical services through technologies that are used in a manner that is compliant with the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996", including information, electronic, and communication technologies, remote monitoring technologies, and store-and-forward transfers, to facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of a patient while the patient is located at an originating site and the person who provides the service is located at a distant site. The act amends and preserves the existing statutory definition of "telemedicine" for purposes of the "Colorado Medical Assistance Act".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1190	Colorado HB 21-1190 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Daneya Esgar Janice Rich Rhonda Fields	11	14	4	2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/30235873-082b-4cc7-8d99-0ab26d37f85f	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1190	408db21a064f4ccd3b605629aac342336348df77e3403807eed4507c44bfea72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1190 (2021A) — Defining Telemedicine For Medical Practitioners

The act amends the definition of "telemedicine" in the "Colorado Medical Practice Act" to state that the term means the delivery of medical services through technologies that are used in a manner that is compliant with the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996", including information, electronic, and communication technologies, remote monitoring technologies, and store-and-forward transfers, to facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of a patient while the patient is located at an originating site and the person who provides the service is located at a distant site. The act amends and preserves the existing statutory definition of "telemedicine" for purposes of the "Colorado Medical Assistance 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. Amendment L.001 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (03/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (03/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA2 (04/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Janice Rich — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 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 with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 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 with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended 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/30235873-082b-4cc7-8d99-0ab26d37f85f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).