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type: "Bill"
title: "Diabetes Prevention & Obesity Treatment Act"
description: "Beginning January 1, 2027, the act requires large group health benefit plans to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronic disease of obesity and the treatment of pre-diabetes, including coverage for a comparable program to the national diabetes prevention program, medical nutrition therapy, intensive behavioral or lifestyle therapy, and metabolic and bariatric surgery. For a large group health benefit plan offered in the state, the act requires carriers to offer the policyholder the option to purchase coverage for FDA-approved anti-obesity medications, including at least one FDA-approved GLP-1 medication."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-048"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-048 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Javier Mabrey", "Kyle Brown", "Kyle Mullica"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f7d1a6f-38bf-4b81-87c4-7139d5119a61"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-048"
source_hash: "6fbba4b144de41b06a13f6a3efa3a2babb68d064ed1badd0f952b77d3cadf92c"
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 SB 25-048 (2025A) — Diabetes Prevention & Obesity Treatment Act
Beginning January 1, 2027, the act requires large group health benefit plans to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronic disease of obesity and the treatment of pre-diabetes, including coverage for a comparable program to the national diabetes prevention program, medical nutrition therapy, intensive behavioral or lifestyle therapy, and metabolic and bariatric surgery. For a large group health benefit plan offered in the state, the act requires carriers to offer the policyholder the option to purchase coverage for FDA-approved anti-obesity medications, including at least one FDA-approved GLP-1 medication.
## 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_sb048_h_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_h_hhs_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_048_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- REPASS — **2510** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **278** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **350** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **269** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **2041** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **4124** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **269** (pass) · upper
- AMEND — **350** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT REPORT — **321** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Javier Mabrey — primary (person)
- Kyle Brown — primary (person)
- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-03T06:00:00+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 Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/9f7d1a6f-38bf-4b81-87c4-7139d5119a61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).