republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-228.md

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Bill	Enterprise Disability Buy-in Premiums	Under current law, there are 2 programs available to low-income individuals to buy in to the state medical assistance program: One for adults with disabilities and one for children with disabilities (medicaid buy-in programs). Individuals who participate in either program pay a premium based on their family income. The premiums are credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund. The premiums credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund are used to offset the costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs. The costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs are also offset by the money in the healthcare affordability and sustainability fee cash fund in the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF).	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-228	Colorado SB 25-228 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Emily Sirota Jeff Bridges Judy Amabile Shannon Bird	8	15	8	2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00	2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0a9931bc-54ec-4814-8712-6032a4d1136c	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-228	5d234c065c673eae3f9d8d1e4ec21276286a09c40f58c50dfe1a1f697497c729	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-228 (2025A) — Enterprise Disability Buy-in Premiums

Under current law, there are 2 programs available to low-income individuals to buy in to the state medical assistance program: One for adults with disabilities and one for children with disabilities (medicaid buy-in programs). Individuals who participate in either program pay a premium based on their family income. The premiums are credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund. The premiums credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund are used to offset the costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs. The costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs are also offset by the money in the healthcare affordability and sustainability fee cash fund in the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF).

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/09/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BYD SCP — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 27–8 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 44–21 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT — 44–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 41–22 (pass) · lower
• NOT CONCUR APPT CC — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CCR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)
• B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a9931bc-54ec-4814-8712-6032a4d1136c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).