HB 1296 CO
Revision to Nurse & Nurse Aide Practice Act
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Summary
This bill adds grounds for professional discipline in Colorado's Nurse and Nurse Aide Practice Act. Specifically, it adds repeated or willful failure to timely complete medical certifications for certificates of death as a basis for disciplinary action against nurses and nurse aides. This provision aligns with a 2025 law that established similar discipline standards for physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses. The failure to comply must occur without reasonable cause. The bill brings nurses and nurse aides into the same professional accountability framework for timely death certificate documentation.
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Official abstract
In 2025, House Bill 25-1082 added physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to the professions subject to discipline for a failure to timely complete a medical certification for a certificate of death. The act adds the repeated or willful failure, without reasonable cause, to comply with the requirements of completing a medical certification for a certificate of death to the grounds for discipline in the 'Nurse and Nurse Aide Practice Act'.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Sponsors (5)
- B. Bradley Republican · sponsor
- M. Carter Democratic · sponsor
- M. Ball Democratic · sponsor
- J. Rich Republican · sponsor
- C. Espenoza Democratic · sponsor
7 coauthors / cosponsors
- J. Caldwell Republican · cosponsor
- M. Duran Democratic · cosponsor
- A. Flanell Republican · cosponsor
- R. Gonzalez Republican · cosponsor
- R. Keltie Republican · cosponsor
- T. Winter Republican · cosponsor
- J. Coleman Democratic · cosponsor
Action history (12)
- May 5, 2026 Governor Signed · executive
- Apr 28, 2026 Sent to the Governor · executive
- Apr 28, 2026 Signed by the President of the Senate · upper
- Apr 28, 2026 Signed by the Speaker of the House · lower
- Apr 7, 2026 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · upper
- Apr 6, 2026 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments · upper
- Mar 31, 2026 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole · upper
- Mar 12, 2026 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs · upper
- Mar 9, 2026 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · lower
- Mar 6, 2026 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments · lower
- Mar 5, 2026 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole · lower
- Feb 25, 2026 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs · lower
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