# Colorado SB25-083: Limitations on Restrictive Employment Agreements Colorado SB25-083, Limitations on Restrictive Employment Agreements, is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Kyle Brown (Democratic), Lindsey Daugherty (Democratic), Lisa Frizell (Republican) and 1 others; status signed, last action 2025-06-03 (Governor Signed); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-16). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB25-083-2025A - As of: 2026-10-16 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Colorado SB25-083 - State: Colorado - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: Limitations on Restrictive Employment Agreements - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-23 - Last action: 2025-06-03, Governor Signed - Sponsors: Kyle Brown (Democratic), Lindsey Daugherty (Democratic), Lisa Frizell (Republican), Lori Garcia Sander (Republican) - Cosponsors: 11 - Subjects: Health Care & Health Insurance, Labor & Employment - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 9 (213 yes, 61 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 4 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Fewer job restrictions for health-care providers: benefit, medium. Colorado excludes restrictions on practicing medicine, advanced practice nursing, or dentistry from two exceptions allowing work restrictions. Generally, these exceptions require full-year cash pay of at least the highly paid worker threshold, or 60% for customer-solicitation limits. Both pay tests… - Worker expense repayments shrink over time: mixed, medium. Employers can require repayment of covered relocation costs, signing bonuses, and payments to establish a health-care practice in a specified area. Covered costs also include health-care provider recruiting and individual provider marketing expenses. Relocation repayment is limited to reasonable re… - Some minority owners get noncompete limits: mixed, medium. Business sales can include owner noncompetes, including sales of ownership shares or all or substantially all business assets. A duration cap protects minority owners who received their shares as equity pay or for services. Maximum years equal the sale payment received divided by average yearly cas… - Worker secrecy rules retain key limits: mixed, low. Employers can enforce reasonable confidentiality and trade-secret terms relevant to their business. Those terms cannot block sharing general training, knowledge, skills, experience, publicly available information, or legally protected disclosures. Lawful agreement terms remain enforceable, with leg… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Kyle Brown (Democratic), House - Sponsor: Lindsey Daugherty (Democratic), Senate - Sponsor: Lisa Frizell (Republican), Senate - Sponsor: Lori Garcia Sander (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Andrew Boesenecker (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Chad Clifford (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Sheila Lieder (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Cathy Kipp (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Sen. F. Winter - Cosponsor: Iman Jodeh (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Jeff Bridges (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: James Coleman (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Lisa Cutter (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Marc Snyder (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Mike Weissman (Democratic), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-21 | Senate | House amendments: Repass | pass | 28 | 7 | | | 2025-04-21 | Senate | House amendments: Concur | pass | 35 | 0 | | | 2025-04-14 | House | Third reading: Bill | pass | 56 | 8 | | | 2025-04-11 | House | Committee of the whole: Amd (h.001) | pass | 32 | 29 | | | 2025-04-03 | House | Adopt amendment L.004 | fail | 6 | 7 | | | 2025-04-03 | House | Adopt amendment L.008 | pass | 9 | 4 | | | 2025-04-03 | House | Refer Senate Bill 25-083, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. | pass | 13 | 0 | | | 2025-03-12 | Senate | Third reading: Bill | pass | 29 | 5 | | | 2025-03-06 | Senate | Refer Senate Bill 25-083, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. | pass | 5 | 1 | | ## Actions (14) - 2025-06-03: Governor Signed (House) - 2025-05-08: Signed by the President of the Senate (Senate) - 2025-05-08: Signed by the Speaker of the House (House) - 2025-05-08: Sent to the Governor (House) - 2025-04-21: Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass (Senate) - 2025-04-14: House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (House) - 2025-04-11: House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor (House) - 2025-04-08: House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments (House) - 2025-04-03: House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole (House) - 2025-03-12: Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (Senate) - 2025-03-12: Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor (House) - 2025-03-11: Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee (Senate) - 2025-03-06: Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole (Senate) - 2025-01-23: Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology (Senate) ## Bill text - Engrossed: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86240/download) - Final Act: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86218/download) - Introduced: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86242/download) - Reengrossed: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86236/download) - Rerevised: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86224/download) - Revised: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86230/download) - Signed Act: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/40988/download) ## Related bills - SB25-279: Colorado Code of Military Justice Updates (signed) - HB25-1307: Updating Technical References in Education Law (signed) - HB25-1234: Utility Consumer Protection (signed) - SB25-167: Invest State Funds to Benefit Communities (signed) - SB25-163: Battery Stewardship Programs (signed) - SB25-261: Property Tax Deferral Program Administration (signed) ## Sources - [Engrossed (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86240/download) - [Final Act (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86218/download) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86242/download) - [Reengrossed (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86236/download) - [Rerevised (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86224/download) - [Revised (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/86230/download) - [Signed Act (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/40988/download) ## Related - [SB25-279: Colorado Code of Military Justice Updates](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB25-279-2025A) - [HB25-1307: Updating Technical References in Education Law](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB25-1307-2025A) - [HB25-1234: Utility Consumer Protection](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB25-1234-2025A) - [SB25-167: Invest State Funds to Benefit Communities](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB25-167-2025A) - [SB25-163: Battery Stewardship Programs](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB25-163-2025A) - [SB25-261: Property Tax Deferral Program Administration](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB25-261-2025A) - [Colorado bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/colorado/bills) - [Colorado state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/colorado) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB25-083-2025A (as of 2026-10-16).