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+type: "Bill"
+title: "County Lodging Tax Expansion"
+description: "Subject to local voter approval, the act increases the maximum allowed rate of a county lodging tax levied on the purchase price paid or charged to persons for rooms or accommodations from 2% to 6% and expands the allowed uses of lodging tax revenue to include:"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2025A"
+identifier: "HB 25-1247"
+citation: "Colorado HB 25-1247 (2025A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Dylan Roberts", "Karen McCormick", "Katie Stewart"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12b45a6a-57ad-4f5b-923d-9aebfa65b52f"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1247"
+source_hash: "25985b1803ff88b90374cccf54e6ad0a365bca85ac4fa83fbd0efed0f0617cfa"
+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 25-1247 (2025A) — County Lodging Tax Expansion
+
+Subject to local voter approval, the act increases the maximum allowed rate of a county lodging tax levied on the purchase price paid or charged to persons for rooms or accommodations from 2% to 6% and expands the allowed uses of lodging tax revenue to include:
+
+## 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_hb1247_s_lgh_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (03/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1247_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1247_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (02/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1247_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (03/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1247_s_lgh_01.pdf)
+6. **Reengrossed (03/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1247_ren.pdf)
+7. **Rerevised (04/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1247_rer.pdf)
+8. **Revised (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1247_rev.pdf)
+9. **Signed Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1247_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **25–9** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **42–20** (pass) · lower
+- REPASS — **41–21** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR — **44–18** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
+- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
+- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
+- Katie Stewart — primary (person)
+- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
+- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
+- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+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
+- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
+- **2025-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
+- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
+- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/04/2025 - No Amendments
+- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing `introduction`
+- **2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
+- **2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12b45a6a-57ad-4f5b-923d-9aebfa65b52f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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