# Colorado SB25-146: Fingerprint-Based Criminal History Record Checks Colorado SB25-146, Fingerprint-Based Criminal History Record Checks, is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Anthony Hartsook (Republican), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (Democratic), Janice Rich (Republican) and 1 others; status signed, last action 2025-06-02 (Governor Signed); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-16). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB25-146-2025A - As of: 2026-10-16 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Colorado SB25-146 - State: Colorado - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: Fingerprint-Based Criminal History Record Checks - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-05 - Last action: 2025-06-02, Governor Signed - Sponsors: Anthony Hartsook (Republican), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (Democratic), Janice Rich (Republican), Meghan Lukens (Democratic) - Cosponsors: 8 - Subjects: Business & Economic Development, Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement, Health Care & Health Insurance, Professions & Occupations - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 7 (204 yes, 4 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 8 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Temporary caregivers gain background-check privacy protections: benefit, low. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation must send temporary-caregiver applicants' fingerprint-check records only to the state department. The records must follow federal criminal-history security rules. Facilities and agencies can receive only an eligible, ineligible, or inconclusive result. Applicant… - More professionals face paid fingerprint checks: cost, low. Colorado regulators can require covered professional license, certification, and registration applicants to submit fingerprints and pay check costs. Covered professions include audiologists, certified midwives, dental hygienists, dentists, licensed professional counselors, physician assistants, soc… - Assisted-living owners face fingerprint submission deadlines: cost, low. Assisted-living owners, applicants, and licensees must submit fingerprints with a license application or within 10 days after ownership or licensee changes. Prints go through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to the FBI, with results sent to the department. The owner definition covers people wit… - Home-care leaders must pay for fingerprint checks: cost, low. Covered home-care and home-care placement agency owners, managers, and administrators must submit fingerprints with license or registration applications. Fingerprints are also due within 10 days after a change in owner, manager, or administrator. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation forwards prints… - Covered massage businesses require paid fingerprint checks: cost, low. People covered by Colorado's illicit-massage-business licensing rules must complete fingerprint-based criminal-history checks. This includes applicants, licensees, owners, prospective owners, employees, and prospective employees covered by those rules. The applicant, owner, or worker pays the assoc… - Youth host-home programs must keep screening records: cost, low. Organizations running youth host-home programs must keep accurate, current records of state background-check decisions. Records must show whether the operator and every other household resident age 18 or older meet host-home criteria. These decisions come from the Colorado Department of Human Servi… - Emergency medical licensing requires arrest follow-up checks: cost, low. For emergency medical licensing, an arrest with no recorded outcome on a fingerprint check requires a name-based court-record check. This applies to covered certificate or license applicants, ambulance personnel, and owners, managers, or administrators. Name-based checks must use State Judicial Dep… - Government fingerprint checks gain statewide safeguards: mixed, low. Colorado government offices requiring fingerprint checks must route prints through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to the FBI. Local law enforcement or approved vendors collect prints, and participants must follow federal criminal-history security rules. Approved vendors can collect prints ele… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Anthony Hartsook (Republican), House - Sponsor: Dafna Michaelson Jenet (Democratic), Senate - Sponsor: Janice Rich (Republican), Senate - Sponsor: Meghan Lukens (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Chad Clifford (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Monica Duran (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Mandy Lindsay (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Rep. S. Bird - Cosponsor: Larry Liston (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Matt Ball (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Marc Catlin (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Tom Sullivan (Democratic), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-16 | Senate | House amendments: Repass | pass | 32 | 0 | | | 2025-04-16 | Senate | House amendments: Concur | pass | 32 | 0 | | | 2025-04-15 | House | Third reading: Bill | pass | 59 | 3 | | | 2025-04-03 | House | Refer Senate Bill 25-146, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. | pass | 13 | 0 | | | 2025-03-03 | Senate | Third reading: Bill | pass | 34 | 0 | | | 2025-02-28 | Senate | Committee of the whole: Adopt report | pass | 29 | 0 | | | 2025-02-25 | Senate | Refer Senate Bill 25-146, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. | pass | 5 | 1 | | ## Actions (14) - 2025-06-02: Governor Signed (House) - 2025-04-29: Signed by the President of the Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Signed by the Speaker of the House (House) - 2025-04-29: Sent to the Governor (House) - 2025-04-16: Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass (Senate) - 2025-04-15: House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (House) - 2025-04-14: 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) - 2025-03-03: Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (Senate) - 2025-03-03: Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor (House) - 2025-02-28: Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee (Senate) - 2025-02-25: Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole (Senate) - 2025-02-05: Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology (Senate) ## Bill text - Engrossed: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84611/download) - Final Act: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84604/download) - Introduced: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84613/download) - Reengrossed: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84609/download) - Rerevised: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84605/download) - Revised: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84607/download) - Signed Act: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/40836/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/84611/download) - [Final Act (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84604/download) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84613/download) - [Reengrossed (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84609/download) - [Rerevised (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84605/download) - [Revised (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/84607/download) - [Signed Act (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/40836/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-SB25-146-2025A (as of 2026-10-16).