All Roll Calls
Yes: 91 • No: 47
ColoradoHB25-13282025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Implement Recommendations Direct Care Worker Stabilization Board
Sponsored By: Emily Sirota (Democratic), Jeff Bridges (Democratic), Jessie Danielson (Democratic), Monica Duran (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Health Care & Health Insurance
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
$17 minimum wage for covered care workers
Beginning July 1, 2025, covered direct care workers must receive at least $17 per hour. Covered work includes personal care, homemaker, and in-home support services that home care agencies can bill to Colorado Medicaid. The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing enforces this wage floor.
New care worker matching and rights platform
By July 1, 2026, Colorado’s health care department must create a direct care worker website and communication platform. It helps consumers find workers and supports recruitment, retention, and state monitoring of care access and quality. Matching considers availability, skills, dementia experience, languages, and certifications. The website provides rights, training, benefits, and other resources, with public content checked for accuracy. Workers can opt in or out of the platform and receive regular messages only after opting in. Within three months after launch, and every three months afterward, specified organizations get opted-in workers’ names, phone numbers, and email addresses. These details are limited to rights outreach, Board engagement, and care matching, with privacy laws and restrictions on sharing and selling. Worker and consumer organizations cannot access consumers’ or representatives’ names or private data, or workers’ family or shared-address ties to consumers.
Care worker rights training and employer penalties
By January 1, 2026, Colorado’s labor department must establish free rights training for direct care workers and employers. It covers wages, labor and civil rights, complaints, and the worker website and platform. Workers receive completion certificates, and the department reports completion to the Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Board. Employers must collect completion proof by October 1, 2026, or 90 days after the website and platform open, whichever comes first. Employers must give rights notices to current workers and new hires, and tell employees about the website and platform. The labor standards director must provide warranted compliance help, investigate qualifying reports, and enforce the rules. Violations carry a $100 fine per affected worker per violation, doubling for each prior similar violation within five years. A first violation for a worker is not fined when the employer shows a good-faith effort to comply. Fines go to the Wage Theft Enforcement Fund.
State funds care workforce reforms and enforcement
For the 2025–26 budget year, the law provides $120,105 in state General Fund money to Colorado’s health care department. That includes $95,960 for staff, $11,605 for operating costs, and $12,540 for professional services and special projects. The funding supports 2.5 full-time-equivalent positions. The state also anticipates $220,424 in federal funds, subject to the annual budget’s federal-funding notation and assumption. The labor department receives $168,459 in General Fund money for labor standards work, based on 1.6 additional full-time-equivalent positions. These funds support carrying out the law, rather than direct payments to households.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Emily Sirota
Democratic • House
Jeff Bridges
Democratic • Senate
Jessie Danielson
Democratic • Senate
Monica Duran
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Andrew Boesenecker
Democratic • House
Junie Joseph
Democratic • House
Julie McCluskie
Democratic • House
Kyle Brown
Democratic • House
Katie Stewart
Democratic • House
Lindsay Gilchrist
Democratic • House
Mandy Lindsay
Democratic • House
Naquetta Ricks
Democratic • House
Rep. S. Bird
Affiliation unavailable
Sheila Lieder
Democratic • House
Tammy Story
Democratic • House
William Lindstedt
Democratic • Senate
Cathy Kipp
Democratic • Senate
Chris Kolker
Democratic • Senate
Sen. F. Winter
Affiliation unavailable
Iman Jodeh
Democratic • Senate
Judy Amabile
Democratic • Senate
Julie Gonzales
Democratic • Senate
Janice Marchman
Democratic • Senate
Katie Wallace
Democratic • Senate
Lisa Cutter
Democratic • Senate
Matt Ball
Democratic • Senate
Mike Weissman
Democratic • Senate
Tony Exum
Democratic • Senate
Tom Sullivan
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/6/2025
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 23 • No: 12
Senate vote • 5/2/2025
Refer House Bill 25-1328 to the Committee of the Whole.
Yes: 4 • No: 3
Senate vote • 5/1/2025
Refer House Bill 25-1328 to the Committee on Appropriations.
Yes: 4 • No: 3
House vote • 4/28/2025
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 43 • No: 22
House vote • 4/25/2025
Refer House Bill 25-1328, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.
Yes: 7 • No: 4
House vote • 4/22/2025
Refer House Bill 25-1328, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations.
Yes: 10 • No: 3
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
5/28/2025HouseSigned by the Speaker of the House
5/14/2025HouseSigned by the President of the Senate
5/14/2025SenateSent to the Governor
5/14/2025HouseSenate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
5/6/2025SenateSenate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
5/5/2025SenateSenate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
5/2/2025SenateSenate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
5/2/2025SenateSenate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations
5/1/2025SenateIntroduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology
4/29/2025SenateHouse Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
4/28/2025HouseHouse Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
4/25/2025HouseHouse Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
4/25/2025HouseHouse Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations
4/22/2025HouseIntroduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services
4/9/2025House
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