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type: "Bill"
title: "Regulate Speech-Language Pathology Assistants"
description: "A speech language pathology assistant (SLPA) is defined in the act as an individual who has a bachelor's degree or higher in speech-language pathology, communications disorders and speech sciences, or any other field that includes at least 24 semester hours in speech-language hearing sciences granted by an accredited institution of higher education. Only an individual who practices as an SLPA in accordance with statute or who is a school speech-language pathology assistant (school SLPA) authorized by the department of education may use the title \"speech-language pathology assistant\" or other terms that indicate that the individual is an SLPA or a school SLPA."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1075"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1075 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Jacque Phillips", "Kyle Mullica", "Lori Garcia Sander"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a64ac3a8-02aa-4130-817a-3dcb5318eaed"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1075"
source_hash: "c3fb6dfbb0dd72ca769faf82c1a16def028668687fc8ec1ac2e32baf17c2c5fc"
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 25-1075 (2025A) — Regulate Speech-Language Pathology Assistants
A speech language pathology assistant (SLPA) is defined in the act as an individual who has a bachelor's degree or higher in speech-language pathology, communications disorders and speech sciences, or any other field that includes at least 24 semester hours in speech-language hearing sciences granted by an accredited institution of higher education. Only an individual who practices as an SLPA in accordance with statute or who is a school speech-language pathology assistant (school SLPA) authorized by the department of education may use the title "speech-language pathology assistant" or other terms that indicate that the individual is an SLPA or a school SLPA.
## 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_hb1075_s_blt_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_h_bus_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_s_blt_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1075_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1075_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **59–3** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **57–5** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **55–7** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Jacque Phillips — primary (person)
- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
- Lori Garcia Sander — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Hartsook — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`
- **2025-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a64ac3a8-02aa-4130-817a-3dcb5318eaed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).