---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid Third-Party Liability Payments"
description: "The act requires third-party payers to reimburse the department of health care policy and financing (state department) for health-care items and services rendered to a medicaid member regardless of whether prior authorization was obtained."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1033"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1033 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lori Garcia Sander", "Mike Weissman", "Sheila Lieder"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c224dd50-343e-406d-853c-3387e9a0a8e5"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1033"
source_hash: "48ef4ed540a8f1bd50c000156d390bf226d6f3d506d3eb662bb3664cd1df9589"
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 HB 25-1033 (2025A) — Medicaid Third-Party Liability Payments

The act requires third-party payers to reimburse the department of health care policy and financing (state department) for health-care items and services rendered to a medicaid member regardless of whether prior authorization was obtained.

## 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_hb1033_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1033_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (02/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1033_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1033_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (01/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1033_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1033_rr2.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1033_rv2.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1033_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **28–5** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **55–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lori Garcia Sander — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
- Sheila Lieder — primary (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2025-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-01-16T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - 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/c224dd50-343e-406d-853c-3387e9a0a8e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).