republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1022.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Qualified Medication Administration Personnel"
description: "For the purpose of determining workers who are qualified to work in an assisted living residence, current law includes in its definition of \"qualified medication administration personnel\" an individual who has passed a competency evaluation administered by an approved training entity on or after July 1, 2017. The act adds to this definition an individual who has passed a competency evaluation administered by the department of public health and environment before July 1, 2017."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1022"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1022 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cecelia Espenoza", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Janice Rich", "Karen McCormick"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ff991ca-ca4f-4224-81ad-01f67c646885"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1022"
source_hash: "97b9c4d59121008c80699f931b96bcedf23521b5b4cc7b8bf662937759a07071"
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 HB 25-1022 (2025A) — Qualified Medication Administration Personnel

For the purpose of determining workers who are qualified to work in an assisted living residence, current law includes in its definition of "qualified medication administration personnel" an individual who has passed a competency evaluation administered by an approved training entity on or after July 1, 2017. The act adds to this definition an individual who has passed a competency evaluation administered by the department of public health and environment before July 1, 2017.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_hb1022_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1022_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (02/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1022_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1022_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (01/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1022_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1022_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1022_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (02/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1022_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cecelia Espenoza — primary (person)
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Janice Rich — primary (person)
- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2025-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-01-16T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ff991ca-ca4f-4224-81ad-01f67c646885`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).