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type: "Bill"
title: "Capital Needs of Rural and Frontier Hospitals"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1223"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1223 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dusty Johnson", "Dylan Roberts", "Meghan Lukens", "Rod Pelton"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ef36903-6e1b-440b-b1b1-59303a2ed757"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1223"
source_hash: "bb2fe1cdfbed70255993213d73d34dd4388e2ed282ee63425ccb7decaab0cf4b"
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 25-1223 (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](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_hb1223_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_h_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_h_hhs_fin_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1223_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1223_signed.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ef36903-6e1b-440b-b1b1-59303a2ed757`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).