republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1279.md

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Bill	Occupational Therapy Interstate Compact	The act enacts the "Occupational Therapy Licensure Interstate Compact" (compact), allowing occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants who are licensed in any state that is a member of the compact to provide occupational therapy services in other member states.The director of the division of professions and occupations in the department of regulatory agencies is authorized to issue provisional occupational therapy licenses and provisional occupational therapy assistant licenses to certain qualified individuals and to implement the compact, including through the adoption of rules and the regulation of telehealth in accordance with the compact.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1279	Colorado HB 21-1279 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Mary Young Rhonda Fields Richard Holtorf	9	16	2	2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00	2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/497e3420-d340-4236-b748-5db7f6e331b7	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1279	f84fed6bca5992e09edee700412fab02984d7fd599b08881b2b8e253aec87280	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1279 (2021A) — Occupational Therapy Interstate Compact

The act enacts the "Occupational Therapy Licensure Interstate Compact" (compact), allowing occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants who are licensed in any state that is a member of the compact to provide occupational therapy services in other member states.The director of the division of professions and occupations in the department of regulatory agencies is authorized to issue provisional occupational therapy licenses and provisional occupational therapy assistant licenses to certain qualified individuals and to implement the compact, including through the adoption of rules and the regulation of telehealth in accordance with the compact.(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 (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (05/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (07/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 60–4 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mary Young — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
• Richard Holtorf — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/497e3420-d340-4236-b748-5db7f6e331b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).