republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-282.md

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Bill	Protections for Veterans Seeking Benefits	The act makes it a deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act" for a person who consults with, advises, or assists a veteran in connection with a claim for veterans' benefits (veterans' benefits matter) to:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-282	Colorado SB 25-282 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Byron Pelton Lisa Feret Matt Ball Ryan Armagost	9	12	2	2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00	2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2a1ef239-5306-4ca0-a883-97ae1a107b44	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-282	7c6c49944f7560d3b340e1ef5f8856719fcca19a6e4e6c709421bccd6a5b312b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-282 (2025A) — Protections for Veterans Seeking Benefits

The act makes it a deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act" for a person who consults with, advises, or assists a veteran in connection with a claim for veterans' benefits (veterans' benefits matter) to:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 52–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Byron Pelton — primary (person)
• Lisa Feret — primary (person)
• Matt Ball — primary (person)
• Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
• R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-03T06:00:00+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
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a1ef239-5306-4ca0-a883-97ae1a107b44. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).