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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational Therapy Interstate Compact"
description: "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.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1279"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1279 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary Young", "Rhonda Fields", "Richard Holtorf"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/497e3420-d340-4236-b748-5db7f6e331b7"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1279"
source_hash: "f84fed6bca5992e09edee700412fab02984d7fd599b08881b2b8e253aec87280"
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 21-1279 (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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_hb1279_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1279_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/24/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1279_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1279_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (05/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1279pbh_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/24/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1279_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/02/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1279_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1279_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (07/06/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1279_signed.pdf)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/497e3420-d340-4236-b748-5db7f6e331b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).