republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-195.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Calculation Of Contributions To Meet Cost Sharing"
description: "For health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, the act requires a health insurer or pharmacy benefit manager to include in the calculation of a covered person's contributions toward cost-sharing requirements, including any annual limitation on a covered person's out-of-pocket costs, any payments made by or on behalf of the covered person for a prescription drug if:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-195"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-195 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Iman Jodeh", "Perry Will", "Rose Pugliese"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/857f5910-619c-405e-8891-5e98fe83f924"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-195"
source_hash: "a4c5a192d84393a7ad2aad124bc1eaf425441ae75f339b84c2ded46caa5e8581"
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 SB 23-195 (2023A) — Calculation Of Contributions To Meet Cost Sharing

For health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, the act requires a health insurer or pharmacy benefit manager to include in the calculation of a covered person's contributions toward cost-sharing requirements, including any annual limitation on a covered person's out-of-pocket costs, any payments made by or on behalf of the covered person for a prescription drug if:

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_sb195_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/16/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/26/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_h_pbh_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/19/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/29/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/26/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_195_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_195_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **24–7** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **25–10** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **27–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
- Perry Will — primary (person)
- Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to 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/857f5910-619c-405e-8891-5e98fe83f924`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).