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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local Governments Tip Offsets for Tipped Employees"
+description: "Colorado law allows a local government to establish local minimum wages in excess of the statewide minimum wage established in the state constitution. A local government that enacts a minimum wage must provide a tip offset for tipped employees in an amount equal to the tip offset amount described in the state constitution, which is $3.02."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2025A"
+identifier: "HB 25-1208"
+citation: "Colorado HB 25-1208 (2025A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Valdez", "Judy Amabile", "Lindsey Daugherty", "Steven Woodrow"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f9f2747-fab7-4d86-b0ff-a96c89752e41"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1208"
+source_hash: "67da91661a96a70e964c1cfe1d970dd4d5bc433b006e61d40b998f4b53097ea3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
+---
+
+# Colorado HB 25-1208 (2025A) — Local Governments Tip Offsets for Tipped Employees
+
+Colorado law allows a local government to establish local minimum wages in excess of the statewide minimum wage established in the state constitution. A local government that enacts a minimum wage must provide a tip offset for tipped employees in an amount equal to the tip offset amount described in the state constitution, which is $3.02.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_hb1208_s_lgh_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (03/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1208_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1208_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1208_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (03/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1208_h_fin_01.pdf)
+6. **Reengrossed (03/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1208_ren.pdf)
+7. **Rerevised (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1208_rer.pdf)
+8. **Revised (04/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1208_rev.pdf)
+9. **Signed Act (06/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1208_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **44–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Valdez — primary (person)
+- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
+- Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
+- Steven Woodrow — primary (person)
+- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rich — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Armagost — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
+- **2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing `introduction`
+- **2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
+- **2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
+- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f9f2747-fab7-4d86-b0ff-a96c89752e41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+