---
type: "Bill"
title: "Changes Violation Driver Overtaking School Bus"
description: "The act permits the state, a county, a city and county, a school district, or a municipality to, with approval from a school district's board of education, install and utilize automated vehicle identification systems (system) on the school district's school buses to detect a driver of a vehicle that overtakes a stopped school bus with actuated visual signal lights in violation of current law. A school district that installs and utilizes a system for this purpose must enter into a memorandum of understanding with one or more law enforcement agencies. If a system detects a violation, the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality may impose a civil penalty of up to $300."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1230"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1230 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Paschal", "Faith Winter", "Jarvis Caldwell"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-24T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/660cc2ed-86bd-47c1-b217-d8ba2fc968c3"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1230"
source_hash: "3104fa7e459348dd3183559a7ad91b17f5808da1313ded38cbed4d581d187919"
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 25-1230 (2025A) — Changes Violation Driver Overtaking School Bus

The act permits the state, a county, a city and county, a school district, or a municipality to, with approval from a school district's board of education, install and utilize automated vehicle identification systems (system) on the school district's school buses to detect a driver of a vehicle that overtakes a stopped school bus with actuated visual signal lights in violation of current law. A school district that installs and utilizes a system for this purpose must enter into a memorandum of understanding with one or more law enforcement agencies. If a system detects a violation, the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality may impose a civil penalty of up to $300.

## 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_hb1230_s_tra_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_h_thl_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_s_tra_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1230_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/24/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1230_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **57–5** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **54–8** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **58–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amy Paschal — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Jarvis Caldwell — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+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
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+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/660cc2ed-86bd-47c1-b217-d8ba2fc968c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).