republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1002.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	Medical Necessity Determination Insurance Coverage	The act clarifies that the health benefits coverage for the prevention of, screening for, and treatment of behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorders must be no less extensive than the coverage provided for any physical illness. The act requires that every health benefit plan provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of covered behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorder benefits, consistent with specified criteria.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1002	Colorado HB 25-1002 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Byron Pelton Judy Amabile Kyle Brown Lindsay Gilchrist	10	15	4	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fa23040f-8382-49c8-a57e-93ee03f2f978	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1002	ad3c1e195ac41d28e50b47b33152f8a6174bbc1524c427c4844c89c5a7e4012e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1002 (2025A) — Medical Necessity Determination Insurance Coverage

The act clarifies that the health benefits coverage for the prevention of, screening for, and treatment of behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorders must be no less extensive than the coverage provided for any physical illness. The act requires that every health benefit plan provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of covered behavioral, mental health, and substance use disorder benefits, consistent with specified criteria.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (02/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (02/26/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (02/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (03/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 54–9 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 51–9 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 50–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Byron Pelton — primary (person)
• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Kyle Brown — primary (person)
• Lindsay Gilchrist — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• C. Simpson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — 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)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — 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)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• R. English — cosponsor (person)
• R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Winter — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa23040f-8382-49c8-a57e-93ee03f2f978. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).