Archive #8739

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Bill Number: HB26-1087
HTTP Status: 200
Valid JSON: Valid
Archived At: 2026-02-19 12:12:49 MST
Created At: 2026-02-19 12:12:49 MST

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  "votes": [],
  "active": "T",
  "origin": "House",
  "lls_num": "26-0547",
  "session": "2026A",
  "subject": [
    "Children & Domestic Matters",
    "Civil Law",
    "Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement",
    "Health Care & Health Insurance",
    "Professions & Occupations"
  ],
  "bill_num": "HB26-1087",
  "sponsors": [
    {
      "id": "SB003",
      "title": "Representative",
      "s_type": "Prime Sponsor",
      "chamber": "House",
      "full_name": "Scott Bottoms",
      "last_name": "Bottoms",
      "first_name": "Scott",
      "sponsor_order": "1"
    }
  ],
  "bill_files": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2026A/csl.nsf/0/16CEF95DD41E9ADD87258D4C0068D80A/$File/1087_01.pdf",
      "date": "02/02/2026",
      "label": "Introduced",
      "url_html": "https://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2026A/csl.nsf/0/16CEF95DD41E9ADD87258D4C0068D80A/$File/1087_01.html",
      "lastModified": "02/02/2026 12:35:30 PM"
    }
  ],
  "committees": [
    {
      "id": "H_HHS_2026A",
      "name": "Health & Human Services",
      "chamber": "House"
    }
  ],
  "long_title": "Concerning safeguarding a minor from health-care interventions intended to alter the minor's biological sex.",
  "bill_status": "House Read Committee Report - HOU Health & Human Services",
  "short_title": "Safeguard Minors from Sex-Altering Interventions",
  "bill_summary": "<html><body><p></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The bill prohibits a person, health-care provider, or mental health professional from knowingly performing surgery on, or prescribing, administering, or providing hormones or puberty blockers to, a minor for the purpose of altering the minor's biological sex characteristics, or providing mental health therapy, counseling, or referrals that promote or affirm a minor's belief that the minor was born in the wrong body or that the minor needs medical intervention to address distress related to the minor's biological sex (prohibited interventions).</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The bill prohibits the state from investigating or penalizing a minor's parent, or terminating the parent's rights, for refusing to consent to a prohibited intervention for the minor. A public school, health-care provider, or a governmental entity is prohibited from withholding information from a minor's parent regarding the minor's express desire to transition the minor's biological sex.</p><p></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The bill prohibits state or federal funding, medicaid reimbursement, and health insurance coverage from being used to pay for a prohibited intervention. A person who, as a minor, was subjected to a prohibited intervention may bring a civil action within 20 years after attaining the age of 18 years against the person, health-care provider, or mental health professional who performed or provided the prohibited intervention.</p><p></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The bill requires a regulator to revoke a health-care provider's or mental health professional's license for performing or providing a prohibited intervention. A person who knowingly performs or provides a prohibited intervention commits a class 5 felony, and the court is required to sentence the person to the maximum term of imprisonment and impose the maximum fine.</p><p><br/><i>(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)</i></p></body></html>",
  "progress_bar": [
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      "end": "F",
      "label": "Introduced",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "end": "F",
      "label": "Under Consideration",
      "position": 2
    }
  ],
  "special_type": "",
  "bill_category": "Children & Domestic Matters",
  "allow_testimony": "F",
  "amendment_files": [],
  "full_bill_topic": "Safeguard Minors from Sex-Altering Interventions",
  "long_bill_files": [],
  "GHG_report_files": [],
  "preamended_files": [],
  "bill_sub_category": "Children's Code Generally",
  "fiscal_note_files": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2026A/csl.nsf/0/16CEF95DD41E9ADD87258D4C0068D80A/$File/HB1087_00.pdf",
      "date": "02/16/2026",
      "label": "FN1",
      "url_html": "",
      "lastModified": "02/16/2026 02:20:07 PM",
      "label_detailed": "Initial Fiscal Note"
    }
  ],
  "is_budget_package": "No",
  "session_laws_files": "",
  "summarized_history": [
    {
      "date": "02/18/2026",
      "action": "House Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone Indefinitely",
      "location": "House"
    },
    {
      "date": "02/02/2026",
      "action": "Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services",
      "location": "House"
    }
  ],
  "research_note_files": [],
  "bill_sub_sub_category": "Other",
  "committee_report_files": [],
  "demographic_note_files": [],
  "updated_bill_summary_files": [],
  "budget_staff_analysis_files": [],
  "first_chamber_third_reading_date": "",
  "second_chamber_third_reading_date": ""
}

Raw Response

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