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type: "Bill"
title: "State-Only Funding for Certain Entities"
description: "On and after July 1, 2025, the act requires the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) to use only state funds to reimburse entities that provide covered services and that are prohibited from receiving reimbursement from the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services (CMS); except that an entity is not eligible to receive state-only funds from HCPF if the entity is eligible for reimbursement from CMS at the time the services are provided.APPROVED by Governor August 26, 2025EFFECTIVE August 26, 2025(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025B"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "Colorado SB 2 (2025B)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care & Health Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bacon", "J. Bridges", "J. Willford", "L. Daugherty"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 12
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-08-21"
last_action: "2025-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b9753ca-6bc0-43da-8b72-d724f33c644e"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25B-002"
source_hash: "908e08941e19ccb9d5dd5336045ae041ff210398a9140d98ee942cf5e390aeae"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---
# Colorado SB 2 (2025B) — State-Only Funding for Certain Entities
On and after July 1, 2025, the act requires the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) to use only state funds to reimburse entities that provide covered services and that are prohibited from receiving reimbursement from the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services (CMS); except that an entity is not eligible to receive state-only funds from HCPF if the entity is eligible for reimbursement from CMS at the time the services are provided.APPROVED by Governor August 26, 2025EFFECTIVE August 26, 2025(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beta.leg.colorado.gov/f13153e646d4957b250286cf812ca571)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beta.leg.colorado.gov/20549583b87d41859fd98b5c1802dbb9)
3. **Final Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beta.leg.colorado.gov/e03bd3cec075c2d0a479ce08a2c0922f)
4. **Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beta.leg.colorado.gov/32f570727ff1a1d7db364ebdb01469c1)
5. **Rerevised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beta.leg.colorado.gov/85b4baa05f93cb58793b9d02f9e1ca5f)
6. **Revised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beta.leg.colorado.gov/565da125e422d2ea7b85fd3859f40889)
7. **Signed Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beta.leg.colorado.gov/a92d42c48f387e66cf72892b62c60a46)
## Votes
- Refer Senate Bill 25B-002, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Refer Senate Bill 25B-002 to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- REFER (APP) — **fail** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Adopt amendment L.001 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AMD (H.001) — **fail** (fail) · lower
- PERM — **fail** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- J. Bacon — primary (person)
- J. Bridges — primary (person)
- J. Willford — primary (person)
- L. Daugherty — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-08-26** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-08-25** Signed by the Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-08-25** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-08-24** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-23** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-08-22** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-22** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2025-08-22** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-21** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-08-21** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-21** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b9753ca-6bc0-43da-8b72-d724f33c644e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).