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type: "Bill"
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title: "Limitations on Restrictive Employment Agreements"
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description: "Under current law, there is an exemption from the general prohibition against covenants not to compete. The exemption allows for a covenant not to compete under specified conditions governing an individual who earns an amount of annualized cash compensation equivalent to or greater than the threshold amount for highly compensated workers. The act excludes from the highly compensated worker exemption a covenant not to compete that restricts the practice of medicine, the practice of advanced practice registered nursing, or the practice of dentistry in this state."
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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 25-083"
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citation: "Colorado SB 25-083 (2025A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kyle Brown", "Lindsey Daugherty", "Lisa Frizell", "Lori Garcia Sander"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2025-01-23T07:00:00+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/99df5424-2a83-455e-b368-8dad686d0a00"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-083"
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source_hash: "1762233f84077b421bf17343983716827911d9d091e2c362bcafb6455ebf1c37"
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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 25-083 (2025A) — Limitations on Restrictive Employment Agreements
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Under current law, there is an exemption from the general prohibition against covenants not to compete. The exemption allows for a covenant not to compete under specified conditions governing an individual who earns an amount of annualized cash compensation equivalent to or greater than the threshold amount for highly compensated workers. The act excludes from the highly compensated worker exemption a covenant not to compete that restricts the practice of medicine, the practice of advanced practice registered nursing, or the practice of dentistry in this state.
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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_sb083_h_bus_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (03/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (01/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (03/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_s_blt_01.pdf)
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6. **PA2 (04/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_h_bus_01.pdf)
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7. **Reengrossed (03/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_ren.pdf)
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8. **Rerevised (04/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_rer.pdf)
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9. **Revised (04/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_083_rev.pdf)
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10. **Signed Act (06/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_083_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- REPASS — **28–7** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **29–5** (pass) · upper
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- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- AMD — **32–29** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **56–8** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Kyle Brown — primary (person)
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- Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
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- Lisa Frizell — primary (person)
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- Lori Garcia Sander — primary (person)
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- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
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- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
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- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Lieder — 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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- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
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- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
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- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
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- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-23T07:00:00+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/99df5424-2a83-455e-b368-8dad686d0a00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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