republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1097.md

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Bill	Placement Transition Plans for Children	Beginning July 1, 2026, absent an emergency placement change, the act requires a county or district department of human or social services (county department) child welfare caseworker (caseworker) to create an individualized placement transition plan (plan) for a child any time the child is moved from one placement in a foster care home, kinship foster care home, or non-certified kinship care home (placement) to another or back to the child's home. The plan must prioritize the mental, emotional, and physical needs of the child while considering the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers as the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers relate to the care of the child.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1097	Colorado HB 25-1097 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Lindsay Gilchrist Lindsey Daugherty Meg Froelich	11	15	4	2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d560e0d4-e4ae-47fd-8ac9-602bf774b379	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1097	79f5ab2c84c17020cc44e5f756a5d729b3f4be7986f7b242d4baf62a7bb5cb17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1097 (2025A) — Placement Transition Plans for Children

Beginning July 1, 2026, absent an emergency placement change, the act requires a county or district department of human or social services (county department) child welfare caseworker (caseworker) to create an individualized placement transition plan (plan) for a child any time the child is moved from one placement in a foster care home, kinship foster care home, or non-certified kinship care home (placement) to another or back to the child's home. The plan must prioritize the mental, emotional, and physical needs of the child while considering the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers as the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers relate to the care of the child.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 44–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 43–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 41–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Lindsay Gilchrist — primary (person)
• Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• B. Bradley — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 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 Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations 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; origin ocd-bill/d560e0d4-e4ae-47fd-8ac9-602bf774b379. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).