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type: "Bill"
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title: "Regulating Child Care Center Fees"
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description: "If a prospective family pays a child care center, family child care home, or neighborhood youth organization (child care program) an application fee, a deposit fee, or wait list fee and is not enrolled in the child care program after six months of paying the fee, the act makes the fee is refundable. A child care program may retain a reasonable administrative fee determined by the department of early childhood (department) before issuing a refund to the prospective family. The prospective family must submit a written request to the child care program to receive a refund. Upon receiving the written request from the prospective family, the child care program shall refund the fees to the prospective family and may remove the prospective family from the wait list."
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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: "SB 25-004"
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citation: "Colorado SB 25-004 (2025A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Janice Marchman", "Jenny Willford", "Lorena García"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83c0998f-9bae-4841-ac66-1999d76c5648"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-004"
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source_hash: "0e70e76f7475d1ea1b23744d9009f0aa53f95fead7861a558febd261e3289817"
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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 SB 25-004 (2025A) — Regulating Child Care Center Fees
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If a prospective family pays a child care center, family child care home, or neighborhood youth organization (child care program) an application fee, a deposit fee, or wait list fee and is not enrolled in the child care program after six months of paying the fee, the act makes the fee is refundable. A child care program may retain a reasonable administrative fee determined by the department of early childhood (department) before issuing a refund to the prospective family. The prospective family must submit a written request to the child care program to receive a refund. Upon receiving the written request from the prospective family, the child care program shall refund the fees to the prospective family and may remove the prospective family from the wait list.
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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_sb004_h_hhs_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (02/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_004_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (03/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_004_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_004_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (02/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_004_s_blt_01.pdf)
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6. **Reengrossed (02/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_004_ren.pdf)
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7. **Rerevised (03/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_004_rer.pdf)
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8. **Revised (03/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_004_rev.pdf)
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9. **Signed Act (03/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_004_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **38–22** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **19–12** (pass) · upper
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- REPASS — **23–11** (pass) · upper
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- REPASS — **21–12** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **21–12** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Faith Winter — primary (person)
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- Janice Marchman — primary (person)
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- Jenny Willford — primary (person)
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- Lorena García — primary (person)
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- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
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- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
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- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
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- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
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- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
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- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
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- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
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- **2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
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- **2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2025-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/18/2025 - No Amendments
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- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `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/83c0998f-9bae-4841-ac66-1999d76c5648`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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