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type: "Bill"
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title: "14 Days Hospitals Retain Blood Draws for Investigations"
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description: "Current law does not require hospitals to hold on to blood draws for any specific amount of time. The act requires hospitals or other health-care facilities to retain blood draws or admission blood samples for 14 days if a coroner submits a blood retention form upon a hospital or health-care facility for a blood draw or admission blood sample of a deceased individual that is the subject of a coroner's death inquest or investigation."
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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 25-273"
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citation: "Colorado SB 25-273 (2025A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Lesley Smith", "Matt Soper"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c18622c-d780-46d1-a8cd-ffeda2311f8c"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-273"
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source_hash: "ef800d849f83f0591544162b05dfb93f8337942b7e911ced20719cd0bad59c76"
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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 25-273 (2025A) — 14 Days Hospitals Retain Blood Draws for Investigations
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Current law does not require hospitals to hold on to blood draws for any specific amount of time. The act requires hospitals or other health-care facilities to retain blood draws or admission blood samples for 14 days if a coroner submits a blood retention form upon a hospital or health-care facility for a blood draw or admission blood sample of a deceased individual that is the subject of a coroner's death inquest or investigation.
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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_sb273_h_jud_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (04/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_s_hhs_01.pdf)
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6. **Reengrossed (04/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_ren.pdf)
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7. **Rerevised (05/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_rer.pdf)
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8. **Revised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_273_rev.pdf)
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9. **Signed Act (06/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_273_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **53–9** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **32–3** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
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- Lesley Smith — primary (person)
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- Matt Soper — primary (person)
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- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
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- D. Michaelson Jenet — 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. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Weissman — 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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- **2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
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- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
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- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+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/9c18622c-d780-46d1-a8cd-ffeda2311f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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