---
type: "Bill"
title: "14 Days Hospitals Retain Blood Draws for Investigations"
description: "Current law does not require hospitals to hold on to blood draws for any specific amount of time. The act requires hospitals or other health-care facilities to retain blood draws or admission blood samples for 14 days if a coroner submits a blood retention form upon a hospital or health-care facility for a blood draw or admission blood sample of a deceased individual that is the subject of a coroner's death inquest or investigation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-273"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-273 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Lesley Smith", "Matt Soper"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c18622c-d780-46d1-a8cd-ffeda2311f8c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-273"
source_hash: "ef800d849f83f0591544162b05dfb93f8337942b7e911ced20719cd0bad59c76"
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 25-273 (2025A) — 14 Days Hospitals Retain Blood Draws for Investigations

Current law does not require hospitals to hold on to blood draws for any specific amount of time. The act requires hospitals or other health-care facilities to retain blood draws or admission blood samples for 14 days if a coroner submits a blood retention form upon a hospital or health-care facility for a blood draw or admission blood sample of a deceased individual that is the subject of a coroner's death inquest or investigation.

## 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_sb273_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_273_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **53–9** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **32–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Lesley Smith — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+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/9c18622c-d780-46d1-a8cd-ffeda2311f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).