republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1126.md

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Bill	Consumer Reports Not Include Medical Debt Information	The act prohibits debt collectors and collection agencies, when attempting to collect debt that they know or should know is medical debt or to obtain information about a consumer in relation to an attempt to collect medical debt, from making a false, deceptive, or misleading representation that the medical debt will be included in a consumer report or factored into a consumer's credit score unless the information is used in connection with a credit transaction involving, or that may reasonably be expected to involve, a principal amount that exceeds the national conforming loan limit value determined annually by the federal housing finance agency. "Medical debt" is debt arising from health-care services or health-care goods, including products, devices, durable medical equipment, and prescription drugs.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1126	Colorado HB 23-1126 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Naquetta Ricks Ron Weinberg Tony Exum	9	25	6	2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/839d90a5-a52c-430c-a35f-c541d8feb1ed	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1126	90dc6af651946c734be152d6510ff1950a97e062cba2046a6172441d83ecc4a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1126 (2023A) — Consumer Reports Not Include Medical Debt Information

The act prohibits debt collectors and collection agencies, when attempting to collect debt that they know or should know is medical debt or to obtain information about a consumer in relation to an attempt to collect medical debt, from making a false, deceptive, or misleading representation that the medical debt will be included in a consumer report or factored into a consumer's credit score unless the information is used in connection with a credit transaction involving, or that may reasonably be expected to involve, a principal amount that exceeds the national conforming loan limit value determined annually by the federal housing finance agency. "Medical debt" is debt arising from health-care services or health-care goods, including products, devices, durable medical equipment, and prescription drugs.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/31/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 43–20 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 46–18 (pass) · lower
• AMEND — 31–1 (pass) · upper
• AMEND — 22–10 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 44–19 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 22–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Naquetta Ricks — primary (person)
• Ron Weinberg — primary (person)
• Tony Exum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2023-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/839d90a5-a52c-430c-a35f-c541d8feb1ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).