republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-116.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Discounted Care for Indigent Patients"
description: "Current law requires a health-care facility to screen each uninsured patient for eligibility for public health insurance programs, discounted care through the Colorado indigent care program (CICP), and discounted care otherwise not reimbursed through the CICP. A patient qualifies for discounted care if the individual's household income is not more than 250% of the federal poverty level and the individual received a health-care service at a health-care facility (facility). The act limits the health-care services to those received in an inpatient or outpatient hospital setting and adds the requirement that a patient attest to residing in Colorado."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-116"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-116 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Iman Jodeh", "Janet Buckner"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a50f6a2-e516-4ba4-a459-24f2fbdb5bf4"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-116"
source_hash: "7fdebca074fa2987947bc000cff1bf6cefe76fb1cae6c014c80c9e7165a74722"
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 24-116 (2024A) — Discounted Care for Indigent Patients

Current law requires a health-care facility to screen each uninsured patient for eligibility for public health insurance programs, discounted care through the Colorado indigent care program (CICP), and discounted care otherwise not reimbursed through the CICP. A patient qualifies for discounted care if the individual's household income is not more than 250% of the federal poverty level and the individual received a health-care service at a health-care facility (facility). The act limits the health-care services to those received in an inpatient or outpatient hospital setting and adds the requirement that a patient attest to residing in Colorado.

## 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_sb116_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_116_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/31/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_116_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **27–8** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **46–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
- Janet Buckner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05T07:00:00+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/1a50f6a2-e516-4ba4-a459-24f2fbdb5bf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).