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type: "Bill"
title: "Health-Related Research Test Subjects"
description: "The act requires a facility that uses animals for health-related research (health-related research facility) to offer a dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue for the purpose of adoption before euthanizing the animal. If the health-related research facility has an internal adoption program, the facility may first offer the dog or cat for adoption through the internal adoption program before offering the dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-085"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-085 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Paschal", "Cathy Kipp", "John Carson", "Manny Rutinel"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-23T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edd8b964-cfe8-4b7f-a1fe-a4ce6e1da74a"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-085"
source_hash: "67b3e23ab88091a6ae8122587989f25938583a5ad78e084c5d9ea57448b4f1b7"
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 25-085 (2025A) — Health-Related Research Test Subjects
The act requires a facility that uses animals for health-related research (health-related research facility) to offer a dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue for the purpose of adoption before euthanizing the animal. If the health-related research facility has an internal adoption program, the facility may first offer the dog or cat for adoption through the internal adoption program before offering the dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue.
## 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_sb085_h_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_h_hhs_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_rr2.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_085_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_085_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **5013** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **295** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **287** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **350** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Amy Paschal — primary (person)
- Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
- John Carson — primary (person)
- Manny Rutinel — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23T07:00:00+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/edd8b964-cfe8-4b7f-a1fe-a4ce6e1da74a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).