republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-175.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Improving Perinatal Health Outcomes"
description: "The act requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for doula services in the same scope and duration of coverage for doula services that will be included in the department of health care policy and financing's request for federal authorization of doula services (request) under the \"Colorado Medical Assistance Act\" (medical assistance program). Doulas providing services must meet the same qualifications for and submit to the same regulation as individuals providing doula services as recommended under the medical assistance program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-175"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-175 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "Iman Jodeh", "Janet Buckner", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/948e47d0-74ab-4d7d-a383-98b478e51159"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-175"
source_hash: "efaf1730a0aad36ae5a418f9bf3f7498f893b6fba3e2e3bc11d74850ba72a8e3"
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 24-175 (2024A) — Improving Perinatal Health Outcomes

The act requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for doula services in the same scope and duration of coverage for doula services that will be included in the department of health care policy and financing's request for federal authorization of doula services (request) under the "Colorado Medical Assistance Act" (medical assistance program). Doulas providing services must meet the same qualifications for and submit to the same regulation as individuals providing doula services as recommended under the medical assistance program.

## 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_sb175_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/30/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_h_hhs_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_rn2.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_175_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_175_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **29–5** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **29–5** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **49–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-05T06:00:00+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
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Referred with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T07:00:00+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/948e47d0-74ab-4d7d-a383-98b478e51159`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).