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ColoradoSB25-0482025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Diabetes Prevention & Obesity Treatment Act

Sponsored By: Dafna Michaelson Jenet (Democratic), Javier Mabrey (Democratic), Kyle Brown (Democratic), Kyle Mullica (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Health Care & Health Insurance

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Colorado large-group plans cover more obesity care

Large-group health plans issued or renewed in Colorado must cover obesity and prediabetes treatment. Required benefits include the National Diabetes Prevention Program, medical nutrition therapy, intensive behavioral or lifestyle therapy, and metabolic and bariatric surgery. Behavioral or lifestyle therapy can take place in offices, through telehealth, or in community settings. Surgery coverage follows the 2022 guidelines named in the law. Insurers must also offer policyholders an option to buy coverage for FDA-approved obesity medicines, including at least one FDA-approved GLP-1 medicine. This medicine option is not required when premiums do not cover expected benefits. The act's default effective date is 90 days after final adjournment. A referendum petition delays the act until voter approval at the November 2026 general election and the governor's official vote declaration.

Child health plan excluded from obesity mandate

The Colorado Child Health Plan cannot include obesity and prediabetes coverage based on the new large-group coverage mandate. This restriction does not say whether the child health plan covers these services under other rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Dafna Michaelson Jenet

    Democratic • Senate

  • Javier Mabrey

    Democratic • House

  • Kyle Brown

    Democratic • House

  • Kyle Mullica

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Andrew Boesenecker

    Democratic • House

  • Jennifer Bacon

    Democratic • House

  • Jamie Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Jacque Phillips

    Democratic • House

  • Karen McCormick

    Democratic • House

  • Lindsay Gilchrist

    Democratic • House

  • Monica Duran

    Democratic • House

  • Mandy Lindsay

    Democratic • House

  • Meghan Lukens

    Democratic • House

  • Manny Rutinel

    Democratic • House

  • Naquetta Ricks

    Democratic • House

  • Sheila Lieder

    Democratic • House

  • Steven Woodrow

    Democratic • House

  • Dylan Roberts

    Democratic • Senate

  • Judy Amabile

    Democratic • Senate

  • James Coleman

    Democratic • Senate

  • Julie Gonzales

    Democratic • Senate

  • Katie Wallace

    Democratic • Senate

  • Lisa Cutter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Mike Weissman

    Democratic • Senate

  • Nick Hinrichsen

    Democratic • Senate

  • Tony Exum

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 284 • No: 113

Senate vote • 5/6/2025

House amendments: Repass

Yes: 25 • No: 10

Senate vote • 5/6/2025

House amendments: Concur

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/6/2025

House amendments: Repass

Yes: 26 • No: 9

House vote • 5/6/2025

Third reading: Bill

Yes: 41 • No: 24

House vote • 5/5/2025

Committee of the whole: Amd (h.001)

Yes: 20 • No: 41

House vote • 5/3/2025

Refer Senate Bill 25-048, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.

Yes: 7 • No: 6

Senate vote • 4/30/2025

Third reading: Amend (l.018)

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/30/2025

Third reading: Bill

Yes: 26 • No: 9

Senate vote • 4/30/2025

Third reading: Bill

Yes: 27 • No: 8

Senate vote • 4/29/2025

Committee of the whole: Adopt report

Yes: 32 • No: 1

Senate vote • 4/29/2025

Refer Senate Bill 25-048, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.

Yes: 5 • No: 2

Senate vote • 3/13/2025

Refer Senate Bill 25-048 to the Committee on Appropriations.

Yes: 5 • No: 3

Actions Timeline

  1. Governor Signed

    6/3/2025House

  2. Signed by the President of the Senate

    5/15/2025Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House

    5/15/2025House

  4. Sent to the Governor

    5/15/2025House

  5. House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments

    5/6/2025House

  6. Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass

    5/6/2025Senate

  7. House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee

    5/5/2025House

  8. House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole

    5/3/2025House

  9. Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor

    4/30/2025Senate

  10. Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services

    4/30/2025House

  11. Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole

    4/29/2025Senate

  12. Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor

    4/29/2025Senate

  13. Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations

    3/13/2025Senate

  14. Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services

    1/8/2025Senate

Bill Text

  • Engrossed

    PDF

  • Final Act

    PDF

  • House Health & Human Services Preamend

    PDF

  • Introduced

    PDF

  • Reengrossed

    PDF

  • Rerevised

    PDF

  • Revised

    PDF

  • Senate Appropriations Preamend

    PDF

  • Signed Act

    PDF

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