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type: "Bill"
title: "Enterprise Disability Buy-in Premiums"
description: "Under current law, there are 2 programs available to low-income individuals to buy in to the state medical assistance program: One for adults with disabilities and one for children with disabilities (medicaid buy-in programs). Individuals who participate in either program pay a premium based on their family income. The premiums are credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund. The premiums credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund are used to offset the costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs. The costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs are also offset by the money in the healthcare affordability and sustainability fee cash fund in the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-228"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-228 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emily Sirota", "Jeff Bridges", "Judy Amabile", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a9931bc-54ec-4814-8712-6032a4d1136c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-228"
source_hash: "5d234c065c673eae3f9d8d1e4ec21276286a09c40f58c50dfe1a1f697497c729"
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 25-228 (2025A) — Enterprise Disability Buy-in Premiums
Under current law, there are 2 programs available to low-income individuals to buy in to the state medical assistance program: One for adults with disabilities and one for children with disabilities (medicaid buy-in programs). Individuals who participate in either program pay a premium based on their family income. The premiums are credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund. The premiums credited to the medicaid buy-in cash fund are used to offset the costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs. The costs of providing the medicaid buy-in programs are also offset by the money in the healthcare affordability and sustainability fee cash fund in the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF).
## 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_sb228_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_228_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_228_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_228_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_228_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_228_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/09/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_228_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_228_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BYD SCP — **631** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **340** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **278** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **4421** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT — **4421** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **4122** (pass) · lower
- NOT CONCUR APPT CC — **330** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CCR — **350** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
- B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a9931bc-54ec-4814-8712-6032a4d1136c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).