republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1016.md

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Bill	Occupational Therapist Prescribe Medical Equipment	The act authorizes an occupational therapist to directly recommend or prescribe durable medical equipment to a patient without requesting the prescription from a licensed physician and requires that the occupational therapist consult with the patient concerning payment options.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1016	Colorado HB 25-1016 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Janice Rich Katie Stewart	9	15	5	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8ac98176-8cd0-4f45-9f5c-82cd61af7176	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1016	7f54732339bf8e20d927a30722fb624ae844f265a7ec9e1e3bcffabeca3a5755	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1016 (2025A) — Occupational Therapist Prescribe Medical Equipment

The act authorizes an occupational therapist to directly recommend or prescribe durable medical equipment to a patient without requesting the prescription from a licensed physician and requires that the occupational therapist consult with the patient concerning payment options.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (01/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 62–1 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 62–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 45–17 (pass) · lower
• REREFER — 20–41 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Janice Rich — primary (person)
• Katie Stewart — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• R. English — cosponsor (person)
• R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
• R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 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; origin ocd-bill/8ac98176-8cd0-4f45-9f5c-82cd61af7176. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).