---
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).