Senate Bill 152, concerning requirements for health care practitioner identification, was adopted by the Colorado Senate March 26, 2025, following committee amendments that narrowed the bill’s scope and added practical exceptions for emergencies.

Senator Frizzell moved the Health and Human Services Committee report and offered floor amendments that removed a requirement that license or certificate information appear on a practitioner name tag and instead required a practitioner to verbally communicate their state-issued license, certificate, or registration at the first contact with a patient. The amendment added the phrase that the verbal identification is required “unless emergent circumstances make it impracticable.”

Senator Bridal described the bill as prompted by concerns from the Colorado Medical Society and said the change responds to the variety of clinician types patients encounter in hospitals, urgent cares and emergency departments. Bridal said the measure is about patient transparency and helping patients understand credentials for clinicians they do not already know.

The Senate adopted the committee report and the amendment on the floor and then passed SB 152. The committee reported the bill unanimously out of committee; the floor recorded adoption of the committee report and subsequent passage. No floor vote tally for final passage was printed in the transcript of the floor debate excerpt, though the clerk recorded adoption on the day’s journal and procedure noted further steps for engrossment.