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type: "Bill"
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title: "Placement Transition Plans for Children"
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description: "Beginning July 1, 2026, absent an emergency placement change, the act requires a county or district department of human or social services (county department) child welfare caseworker (caseworker) to create an individualized placement transition plan (plan) for a child any time the child is moved from one placement in a foster care home, kinship foster care home, or non-certified kinship care home (placement) to another or back to the child's home. The plan must prioritize the mental, emotional, and physical needs of the child while considering the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers as the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers relate to the care of the child."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2025A"
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identifier: "HB 25-1097"
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citation: "Colorado HB 25-1097 (2025A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Lindsay Gilchrist", "Lindsey Daugherty", "Meg Froelich"]
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version_count: 11
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d560e0d4-e4ae-47fd-8ac9-602bf774b379"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1097"
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source_hash: "79f5ab2c84c17020cc44e5f756a5d729b3f4be7986f7b242d4baf62a7bb5cb17"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado HB 25-1097 (2025A) — Placement Transition Plans for Children
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Beginning July 1, 2026, absent an emergency placement change, the act requires a county or district department of human or social services (county department) child welfare caseworker (caseworker) to create an individualized placement transition plan (plan) for a child any time the child is moved from one placement in a foster care home, kinship foster care home, or non-certified kinship care home (placement) to another or back to the child's home. The plan must prioritize the mental, emotional, and physical needs of the child while considering the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers as the needs of the parents, current providers, and future providers relate to the care of the child.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_hb1097_s_hhs_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (04/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (01/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (02/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_h_hhs_01.pdf)
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6. **PA2 (04/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_h_hhs_app_01.pdf)
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7. **PA3 (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_s_hhs_01.pdf)
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8. **Reengrossed (04/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_ren.pdf)
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9. **Rerevised (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_rer.pdf)
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10. **Revised (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1097_rev.pdf)
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11. **Signed Act (05/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1097_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- REPASS — **44–21** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **31–4** (pass) · upper
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- CONCUR — **43–22** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **41–23** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
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- Lindsay Gilchrist — primary (person)
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- Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
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- Meg Froelich — primary (person)
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- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
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- B. Bradley — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
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- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
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- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
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- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
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- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
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- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
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- L. García — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
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- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
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- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
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- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
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- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
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- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d560e0d4-e4ae-47fd-8ac9-602bf774b379`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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