republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-142.md

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Bill	Health Care Access In Cases Of Rape Or Incest	Under current law, public funds cannot be used to pay for an abortion, except in cases of life endangerment and in cases of rape or incest for medicaid-eligible women. If every reasonable effort is made to preserve the life of the pregnant woman and unborn child, then public funds may be used for medically necessary services. The medically necessary services must be performed only in a licensed health care facility and only by a licensed physician. The act removes these requirements and allows medically necessary services to be performed by a provider who is licensed by the state and acting within the scope of the provider's license and in accordance with applicable federal regulations.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-142	Colorado SB 21-142 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Julie McCluskie Kerry Donovan Yadira Caraveo	9	12	2	2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f634edd8-fd09-40e0-b677-4c825fe52a80	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-142	03109291331c1b22619095e560bee911eca40b299f3e18cdfbe51ce66f7e0360	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-142 (2021A) — Health Care Access In Cases Of Rape Or Incest

Under current law, public funds cannot be used to pay for an abortion, except in cases of life endangerment and in cases of rape or incest for medicaid-eligible women. If every reasonable effort is made to preserve the life of the pregnant woman and unborn child, then public funds may be used for medically necessary services. The medically necessary services must be performed only in a licensed health care facility and only by a licensed physician. The act removes these requirements and allows medically necessary services to be performed by a provider who is licensed by the state and acting within the scope of the provider's license and in accordance with applicable federal regulations.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 19–15 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 39–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
• Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
• Yadira Caraveo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction
• 2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f634edd8-fd09-40e0-b677-4c825fe52a80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).