---
type: "Bill"
title: "Severance Tax Transfers"
description: "Under existing law, the general assembly may annually appropriate up to $450,000 from the severance tax operational fund to the conservation district grant fund. The act increases the maximum amount to $700,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1413"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1413 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Jeff Bridges", "Rick Taggart", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/327ecc34-ab75-438a-a6d4-50618d846a7b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1413"
source_hash: "c34f3f8124ba5ad645054414e8ff8b50678c971904b6a2fe501f62e8335629a8"
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 24-1413 (2024A) — Severance Tax Transfers

Under existing law, the general assembly may annually appropriate up to $450,000 from the severance tax operational fund to the conservation district grant fund. The act increases the maximum amount to $700,000.

## 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/2024a_hb1413_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1413_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1413_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1413_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1413_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1413_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1413_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1413_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **43–21** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **45–17** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **26–5** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **22–3** (pass) · upper
- NOT CNCR — **60–1** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT — **49–13** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **7–51** (fail) · lower
- ADOPT CCR — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - 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/327ecc34-ab75-438a-a6d4-50618d846a7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).