---
type: "Bill"
title: "Change Paid Family Medical Leave Insurance Prog"
description: "With regard to the family and medical leave insurance program (program), the act extends the duration of paid family and medical leave, up to an additional 12 weeks, for a parent who has a child receiving inpatient care in a neonatal intensive care unit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-144"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-144 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Jeff Bridges", "Jenny Willford", "Yara Zokaie"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4a865bd-de9d-4aba-a88a-91bb0d893b31"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-144"
source_hash: "226f77673294cfc9c0f35d567133387da45a04ef461b0554db412e568f98abf7"
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 25-144 (2025A) — Change Paid Family Medical Leave Insurance Prog

With regard to the family and medical leave insurance program (program), the act extends the duration of paid family and medical leave, up to an additional 12 weeks, for a parent who has a child receiving inpatient care in a neonatal intensive care unit.

## 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_sb144_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_s_blt_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_h_bus_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/24/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_144_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_144_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **21–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **42–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Jenny Willford — primary (person)
- Yara Zokaie — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — 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. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
- **2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4a865bd-de9d-4aba-a88a-91bb0d893b31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).