republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1088.md

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Bill	Veterans Mental Health Session Reimbursement Program	The act establishes the veterans mental health services program (program) in the division of veterans affairs (division) to facilitate access to mental health services for veterans who live in a veterans community living center. The act requires a veteran to attest that the veteran has exhausted the annual number of sessions with a mental health-care provider covered by the veteran's federal veterans administration benefits before using the program. The program reimburses mental health-care providers for 26 mental health-care sessions per year with an eligible veteran. The act requires the behavioral health administration to post on its website a list of providers who participate in the program.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1088	Colorado HB 23-1088 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Matthew Martinez Nick Hinrichsen	12	15	4	2023-01-19T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b4558fff-adf5-4be7-bb80-acde80f221f3	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1088	54cdd5e24dde5b991b90c968dd9bb743cada500132e2820aa15654fe3215a0c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1088 (2023A) — Veterans Mental Health Session Reimbursement Program

The act establishes the veterans mental health services program (program) in the division of veterans affairs (division) to facilitate access to mental health services for veterans who live in a veterans community living center. The act requires a veteran to attest that the veteran has exhausted the annual number of sessions with a mental health-care provider covered by the veteran's federal veterans administration benefits before using the program. The program reimburses mental health-care providers for 26 mental health-care sessions per year with an eligible veteran. The act requires the behavioral health administration to post on its website a list of providers who participate in the program.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (05/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (05/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/16/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 63–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Matthew Martinez — primary (person)
• Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-01-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4558fff-adf5-4be7-bb80-acde80f221f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).