---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recovery Audit Contractor Program"
description: "The act allows the department of health care policy and financing (department) to, on behalf of the department, contract with a recovery audit contractor (RAC) vendor to conduct RAC audits of medicaid providers (providers)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-314"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-314 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Emily Sirota", "Jeff Bridges", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21cf721d-0b67-49d7-9a70-aacc333bd663"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-314"
source_hash: "262207fbf70616ba71da78abf5cba8c299f6dab55556262319a7c53aa4334dd5"
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 25-314 (2025A) — Recovery Audit Contractor Program

The act allows the department of health care policy and financing (department) to, on behalf of the department, contract with a recovery audit contractor (RAC) vendor to conduct RAC audits of medicaid providers (providers).

## 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_sb314_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_314_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_314_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_314_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_314_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_314_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_314_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_314_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_314_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **53–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- P. Lundeen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-03T06:00:00+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`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21cf721d-0b67-49d7-9a70-aacc333bd663`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).