---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Conservation Measures"
description: "Section 2 of the act allows the owner of a decreed storage water right to loan water to the Colorado water conservation board (board) to preserve or improve the natural environment to a reasonable degree for a stream reach for which the board does not hold a decreed instream flow water right."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-197"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-197 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Julie McCluskie", "Marc Catlin", "Perry Will"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a89fd32d-5483-423a-b4b0-7a58b39b6199"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-197"
source_hash: "192f3b808c368d5419f543690f2ca37beb3e2573fa76dcbbc04b5333bccf224b"
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 24-197 (2024A) — Water Conservation Measures

Section 2 of the act allows the owner of a decreed storage water right to loan water to the Colorado water conservation board (board) to preserve or improve the natural environment to a reasonable degree for a stream reach for which the board does not hold a decreed instream flow water right.

## 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_sb197_h_awn_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_197_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_197_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_197_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/11/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_197_s_agr_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_197_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_197_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_197_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/29/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_197_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)
- Perry Will — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 04/17/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a89fd32d-5483-423a-b4b0-7a58b39b6199`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).