republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1223.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	Capital Needs of Rural and Frontier Hospitals	The department of public health and environment (department) is required to conduct a study of capital needs for rural and frontier hospitals throughout the state (study). The rural and frontier hospital capital needs study task force (task force) is created and is required to oversee the study. The study must measure the number of studied facilities that are not compliant with current and relevant design and building code standards for health-care facilities, identify the age of core facilities and any additions to those facilities, and estimate the costs for renovating or replacing facilities identified as having capital needs. No later than 18 months after the first meeting of the task force, the department is required to complete the study and compile the results of the study into a report. The department is required to present the report to the respective health and human services committees of the senate and house of representatives.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1223	Colorado HB 25-1223 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Dusty Johnson Dylan Roberts Meghan Lukens Rod Pelton	10	16	2	2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1ef36903-6e1b-440b-b1b1-59303a2ed757	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1223	bb2fe1cdfbed70255993213d73d34dd4388e2ed282ee63425ccb7decaab0cf4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1223 (2025A) — Capital Needs of Rural and Frontier Hospitals

The department of public health and environment (department) is required to conduct a study of capital needs for rural and frontier hospitals throughout the state (study). The rural and frontier hospital capital needs study task force (task force) is created and is required to oversee the study. The study must measure the number of studied facilities that are not compliant with current and relevant design and building code standards for health-care facilities, identify the age of core facilities and any additions to those facilities, and estimate the costs for renovating or replacing facilities identified as having capital needs. No later than 18 months after the first meeting of the task force, the department is required to complete the study and compile the results of the study into a report. The department is required to present the report to the respective health and human services committees of the senate and house of representatives.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 56–9 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dusty Johnson — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Meghan Lukens — primary (person)
• Rod Pelton — primary (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
• L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
• L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
• M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ef36903-6e1b-440b-b1b1-59303a2ed757. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).