Colorado · 2025 First Extraordinary Session · Bill
SB 7: Immigration Status Low-Income Health Insurance Coverage
Introduced Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
SB 7 is a bill introduced in the Colorado Senate on August 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Immigration Status Low-Income Health Insurance Coverage. Primary sponsor: L. Liston. Most recent recorded action (August 21, 2025): Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Current law extends health insurance coverage to various people, including low-income pregnant and postpartum people and children in low-income families, whose immigration status would otherwise make them ineligible for coverage under state-federal programs or would limit the coverage's scope or duration. Other expansions make state-subsidized individual health insurance coverage available for certain people, regardless of immigration status. The bill modifies several provisions related to these coverage expansions by:Prohibiting the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) from reimbursing a health-care provider, entity, or facility for providing medical services to a person who is not a lawful resident;Eliminating full health insurance coverage for pregnant and postpartum people who would be eligible for medicaid or the children's basic health plan if not for their immigration status;Eliminating full health insurance coverage for children who would be eligible for medicaid or the children's basic health plan if not for their immigration status;Repealing the state reproductive health-care program, the medical assistance program, and the state children's basic health plan (state-funded programs) that were established to provide expanded coverage;Halting outreach to and enrollment of eligible groups into new coverage options;Removing HCPF's potential to spend in excess of an authorized amount for the state-funded programs; andExcluding immigrants who are not lawfully residing in the state from state-subsidized individual health insurance coverage available through the health insurance affordability enterprise.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Sponsors
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L. Liston | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
- Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely