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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Remove Authorization Requirement Adjust Chronic Prescription"
+description: "The act allows a health-care provider to, under certain circumstances, adjust the dose or frequency of a chronic maintenance drug without needing prior authorization from an insurance carrier."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2025A"
+identifier: "SB 25-301"
+citation: "Colorado SB 25-301 (2025A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Dusty Johnson", "Katie Wallace", "Sheila Lieder"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f079441-ea7b-4f0b-b5a5-306c9e0379d7"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-301"
+source_hash: "ad1aa823f78e2075947b21599fcb35c9f47bada5350715717befce8a18889f39"
+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 25-301 (2025A) — Remove Authorization Requirement Adjust Chronic Prescription
+
+The act allows a health-care provider to, under certain circumstances, adjust the dose or frequency of a chronic maintenance drug without needing prior authorization from an insurance carrier.
+
+## 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/2025a_sb301_h_hhs_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_301_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_301_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_301_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_301_s_hhs_01.pdf)
+6. **Reengrossed (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_301_ren.pdf)
+7. **Rerevised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_301_rer.pdf)
+8. **Revised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_301_rev.pdf)
+9. **Signed Act (05/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_301_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **58–6** (pass) · lower
+- PERM — **62–2** (pass) · lower
+- AMD — **61–3** (pass) · lower
+- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
+- Dusty Johnson — primary (person)
+- Katie Wallace — primary (person)
+- Sheila Lieder — primary (person)
+- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
+- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
+- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
+- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
+- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Garcia Sander — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Bradfield — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
+- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
+- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
+- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
+- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+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/4f079441-ea7b-4f0b-b5a5-306c9e0379d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+