---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gender Identity Certificate of Death"
description: "The act requires an individual who completes a certificate of death to record the decedent's sex to reflect the decedent's gender."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1109"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1109 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen McCormick", "Katie Wallace", "Kyle Brown", "Mike Weissman"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03560a68-ce37-425f-a5c7-dc3dfb570245"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1109"
source_hash: "3006cac5532cbf50f2ac0967413db9f071825afb14386553cc536da217e7abe5"
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 25-1109 (2025A) — Gender Identity Certificate of Death

The act requires an individual who completes a certificate of death to record the decedent's sex to reflect the decedent's gender.

## 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_hb1109_s_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1109_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1109_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1109_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1109_h_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1109_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1109_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1109_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1109_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **38–26** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **22–37** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
- Katie Wallace — primary (person)
- Kyle Brown — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — 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)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27T07:00:00+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/03560a68-ce37-425f-a5c7-dc3dfb570245`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).