republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-289.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	Creation of a Drug Donation Program	The act amends statutory provisions relating to unused medication in facilities, including correctional facilities, nursing care facilities, assisted living residences, hospice, and other facilities, to change the defined term "medication" to "medicine" and specifies the types of unused medicines that may be redispensed to patients or donated to another entity that has legal authority to possess the medicine.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-289	Colorado SB 25-289 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Emily Sirota Kyle Brown Lisa Cutter	10	13	5	2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00	2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c3b9adb4-a677-4718-99f0-93b525597f9d	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-289	466c9eb204de572b13cc1d690ed90813582cc023393cc1b63d7d7da145c016e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-289 (2025A) — Creation of a Drug Donation Program

The act amends statutory provisions relating to unused medication in facilities, including correctional facilities, nursing care facilities, assisted living residences, hospice, and other facilities, to change the defined term "medication" to "medicine" and specifies the types of unused medicines that may be redispensed to patients or donated to another entity that has legal authority to possess the medicine.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/24/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMEND — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 48–15 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 29–3 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 30–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Kyle Brown — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Feret — cosponsor (person)
• L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3b9adb4-a677-4718-99f0-93b525597f9d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).