---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Stage Front Range Passenger Rail Funding"
description: "The act provides funding for early stage work required for front range passenger rail corridor development by:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-176"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-176 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Rankin", "Chris Hansen", "Julie McCluskie"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2446c69b-ac94-468f-adfa-d46a8a54da5d"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-176"
source_hash: "11f60410f1c8bf6d8b5e539aaffa504a81efc588ebf647b3441810f3f0102832"
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 SB 22-176 (2022A) — Early Stage Front Range Passenger Rail Funding

The act provides funding for early stage work required for front range passenger rail corridor development by:

## 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/2022a_sb176_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/13/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_176_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_176_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_176_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_176_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_176_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_176_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_176_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_176_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **37–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Rankin — primary (person)
- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2446c69b-ac94-468f-adfa-d46a8a54da5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).