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type: "Bill"
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title: "Diabetes Prevention & Obesity Treatment Act"
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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."
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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 25-048"
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citation: "Colorado SB 25-048 (2025A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Javier Mabrey", "Kyle Brown", "Kyle Mullica"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f7d1a6f-38bf-4b81-87c4-7139d5119a61"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-048"
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source_hash: "6fbba4b144de41b06a13f6a3efa3a2babb68d064ed1badd0f952b77d3cadf92c"
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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 25-048 (2025A) — Diabetes Prevention & Obesity Treatment Act
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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.
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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_sb048_h_hhs_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_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_048_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_s_app_01.pdf)
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6. **PA2 (05/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_h_hhs_01.pdf)
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7. **Reengrossed (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_ren.pdf)
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8. **Rerevised (05/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_rer.pdf)
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9. **Revised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_048_rev.pdf)
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10. **Signed Act (06/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_048_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- REPASS — **25–10** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **27–8** (pass) · upper
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- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- REPASS — **26–9** (pass) · upper
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- AMD — **20–41** (fail) · lower
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- BILL — **41–24** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **26–9** (pass) · upper
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- AMEND — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- ADOPT REPORT — **32–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
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- Javier Mabrey — primary (person)
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- Kyle Brown — primary (person)
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- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
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- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
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- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
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- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Wallace — 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. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
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- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
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- N. Ricks — 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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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
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- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
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- **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`
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- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
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- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `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/9f7d1a6f-38bf-4b81-87c4-7139d5119a61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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