republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-018.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physician Assistant Licensure Compact"
description: "The act enacts the \"Physician Assistant Licensure Compact\" (compact). The compact is designed to enable a physician assistant with a license in a state that has signed the compact (participating state) to more easily become authorized to practice in any other participating state. Participating states and physician assistants must meet specific conditions enumerated in the compact to participate in the compact. The compact allows only the participating state where a physician assistant is licensed to discipline the physician assistant, but allows a participating state where the physician assistant is practicing, but is not licensed, to revoke the physician assistant's authority to practice in that state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-018"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-018 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Judy Amabile", "Ty Winter"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5bdb90a-bdf1-4d61-ae36-8fbd70572fea"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-018"
source_hash: "e93474c451af69d1a835f36345f79ae0f7f549042f59e13b7e5846b4117cea02"
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 24-018 (2024A) — Physician Assistant Licensure Compact

The act enacts the "Physician Assistant Licensure Compact" (compact). The compact is designed to enable a physician assistant with a license in a state that has signed the compact (participating state) to more easily become authorized to practice in any other participating state. Participating states and physician assistants must meet specific conditions enumerated in the compact to participate in the compact. The compact allows only the participating state where a physician assistant is licensed to discipline the physician assistant, but allows a participating state where the physician assistant is practicing, but is not licensed, to revoke the physician assistant's authority to practice in that state.

## 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/2024a_sb018_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_rr2.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_018_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_018_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **60–2** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Ty Winter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+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/c5bdb90a-bdf1-4d61-ae36-8fbd70572fea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).