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type: "Bill"
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title: "Delivering Health-care Services Through Telemedicine"
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description: "Current law states that in-person contact between a health-care provider or mental health-care provider and a patient is not required under the state's medicaid program for services delivered through telemedicine that are otherwise eligible for reimbursement under medicaid. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing to promulgate rules specifically relating to entities that deliver health-care or mental health-care services exclusively or predominately through telemedicine.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2021A"
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identifier: "HB 21-1256"
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citation: "Colorado HB 21-1256 (2021A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Faith Winter", "Susan Lontine"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 12
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/895a0d63-9c1c-4038-8fe6-317ed5fe41c4"
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source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1256"
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source_hash: "95a1f5c38ea585b58617e64bfb058486d0bcb8042ed262e1711c500aafc0392c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado HB 21-1256 (2021A) — Delivering Health-care Services Through Telemedicine
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Current law states that in-person contact between a health-care provider or mental health-care provider and a patient is not required under the state's medicaid program for services delivered through telemedicine that are otherwise eligible for reimbursement under medicaid. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing to promulgate rules specifically relating to entities that deliver health-care or mental health-care services exclusively or predominately through telemedicine.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_hb1256_s_hhs_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (04/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1256_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1256_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (04/05/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1256_01.pdf)
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5. **Reengrossed (04/27/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1256_ren.pdf)
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6. **Rerevised (05/11/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1256_rer.pdf)
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7. **Revised (05/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1256_rev.pdf)
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8. **Signed Act (05/27/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1256_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **56–7** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
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- Faith Winter — primary (person)
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- Susan Lontine — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
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- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
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- **2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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- **2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
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- **2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/895a0d63-9c1c-4038-8fe6-317ed5fe41c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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