republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-004.md

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Bill	Regulating Child Care Center Fees	If a prospective family pays a child care center, family child care home, or neighborhood youth organization (child care program) an application fee, a deposit fee, or wait list fee and is not enrolled in the child care program after six months of paying the fee, the act makes the fee is refundable. A child care program may retain a reasonable administrative fee determined by the department of early childhood (department) before issuing a refund to the prospective family. The prospective family must submit a written request to the child care program to receive a refund. Upon receiving the written request from the prospective family, the child care program shall refund the fees to the prospective family and may remove the prospective family from the wait list.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-004	Colorado SB 25-004 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Janice Marchman Jenny Willford Lorena García	9	15	6	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/83c0998f-9bae-4841-ac66-1999d76c5648	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-004	0e70e76f7475d1ea1b23744d9009f0aa53f95fead7861a558febd261e3289817	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-004 (2025A) — Regulating Child Care Center Fees

If a prospective family pays a child care center, family child care home, or neighborhood youth organization (child care program) an application fee, a deposit fee, or wait list fee and is not enrolled in the child care program after six months of paying the fee, the act makes the fee is refundable. A child care program may retain a reasonable administrative fee determined by the department of early childhood (department) before issuing a refund to the prospective family. The prospective family must submit a written request to the child care program to receive a refund. Upon receiving the written request from the prospective family, the child care program shall refund the fees to the prospective family and may remove the prospective family from the wait list.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/26/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 38–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 19–12 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 23–11 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 21–12 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 21–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Janice Marchman — primary (person)
• Jenny Willford — primary (person)
• Lorena García — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/18/2025 - No Amendments
• 2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83c0998f-9bae-4841-ac66-1999d76c5648. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).