republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-085.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Health-Related Research Test Subjects	The act requires a facility that uses animals for health-related research (health-related research facility) to offer a dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue for the purpose of adoption before euthanizing the animal. If the health-related research facility has an internal adoption program, the facility may first offer the dog or cat for adoption through the internal adoption program before offering the dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-085	Colorado SB 25-085 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Amy Paschal Cathy Kipp John Carson Manny Rutinel	10	13	4	2025-01-23T07:00:00+00:00	2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/edd8b964-cfe8-4b7f-a1fe-a4ce6e1da74a	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-085	67b3e23ab88091a6ae8122587989f25938583a5ad78e084c5d9ea57448b4f1b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-085 (2025A) — Health-Related Research Test Subjects

The act requires a facility that uses animals for health-related research (health-related research facility) to offer a dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue for the purpose of adoption before euthanizing the animal. If the health-related research facility has an internal adoption program, the facility may first offer the dog or cat for adoption through the internal adoption program before offering the dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 50–13 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–5 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 28–7 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Amy Paschal — primary (person)
• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Manny Rutinel — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/edd8b964-cfe8-4b7f-a1fe-a4ce6e1da74a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).