republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1300.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	Workers' Compensation Benefits Proof of Entitlement	The act requires an employer or the employer's insurer to use the division of workers' compensation's (division) utilization standards when responding to a request for authorization from a treating physician, and, if they do not, the director of the division may deem the services as authorized, reasonable, and necessary and require payment for the services by the employer or the employer's insurer.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1300	Colorado HB 25-1300 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cathy Kipp Jenny Willford	10	23	10	2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00	2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/10268b1c-b1e3-4c3c-9827-228066c60d28	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1300	fd071531f4f26ff5a2263285cf74898863137351767c21e51fb655e5796145ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1300 (2025A) — Workers' Compensation Benefits Proof of Entitlement

The act requires an employer or the employer's insurer to use the division of workers' compensation's (division) utilization standards when responding to a request for authorization from a treating physician, and, if they do not, the director of the division may deem the services as authorized, reasonable, and necessary and require payment for the services by the employer or the employer's insurer.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 39–25 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT — 43–22 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 22–13 (pass) · upper
• NOT CNCR — 44–21 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 22–13 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT REPORT — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 38–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• Jenny Willford — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• R. English — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Reconsider
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over to 04/06/2025 - No Amendments
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10268b1c-b1e3-4c3c-9827-228066c60d28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).