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type: "Bill"
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title: "Extending Spinal & Related Medicine Program"
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description: "Current law includes a pilot program for complementary and alternative medicine in the department of health care policy and financing (department) for an eligible person with a disability. The act converts the pilot program into an ongoing program and changes the name of the program to the \"complementary and integrative health program\" (program). The act extends the program to September 1, 2030, and clarifies that the program covers persons with a primary condition of multiple sclerosis, a brain injury, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, or cerebral palsy when one of these diagnoses directly results in a total inability for independent ambulation."
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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 25-226"
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citation: "Colorado SB 25-226 (2025A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Judy Amabile", "Rick Taggart", "Shannon Bird"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f43327d1-b8da-4a21-b3a7-bd19e1189f13"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-226"
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source_hash: "10b3cab9bed9f864f3f905a996de81126c1c5fc40360596a85a5377123ad78d8"
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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 25-226 (2025A) — Extending Spinal & Related Medicine Program
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Current law includes a pilot program for complementary and alternative medicine in the department of health care policy and financing (department) for an eligible person with a disability. The act converts the pilot program into an ongoing program and changes the name of the program to the "complementary and integrative health program" (program). The act extends the program to September 1, 2030, and clarifies that the program covers persons with a primary condition of multiple sclerosis, a brain injury, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, or cerebral palsy when one of these diagnoses directly results in a total inability for independent ambulation.
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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_sb226_h_app_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_226_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_226_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_226_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (04/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_226_h_app_01.pdf)
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6. **Reengrossed (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_226_ren.pdf)
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7. **Rerevised (04/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_226_rer.pdf)
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8. **Revised (04/09/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_226_rev.pdf)
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9. **Signed Act (05/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_226_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- ADOPT — **53–12** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **57–6** (pass) · lower
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- BYD SCP — **61–3** (pass) · lower
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- NOT CONCUR APPT CC — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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- REPASS — **50–15** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
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- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
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- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
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- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
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- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Feret — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
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- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
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- R. Stewart — 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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- **2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
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- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
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- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
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- **2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
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- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
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- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `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/f43327d1-b8da-4a21-b3a7-bd19e1189f13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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