republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-273.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	14 Days Hospitals Retain Blood Draws for Investigations	Current law does not require hospitals to hold on to blood draws for any specific amount of time. The act requires hospitals or other health-care facilities to retain blood draws or admission blood samples for 14 days if a coroner submits a blood retention form upon a hospital or health-care facility for a blood draw or admission blood sample of a deceased individual that is the subject of a coroner's death inquest or investigation.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-273	Colorado SB 25-273 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Dylan Roberts Lesley Smith Matt Soper	9	13	2	2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00	2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9c18622c-d780-46d1-a8cd-ffeda2311f8c	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-273	ef800d849f83f0591544162b05dfb93f8337942b7e911ced20719cd0bad59c76	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-273 (2025A) — 14 Days Hospitals Retain Blood Draws for Investigations

Current law does not require hospitals to hold on to blood draws for any specific amount of time. The act requires hospitals or other health-care facilities to retain blood draws or admission blood samples for 14 days if a coroner submits a blood retention form upon a hospital or health-care facility for a blood draw or admission blood sample of a deceased individual that is the subject of a coroner's death inquest or investigation.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/16/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 53–9 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Lesley Smith — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c18622c-d780-46d1-a8cd-ffeda2311f8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).