---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals"
description: "Section 1 of the act specifies that the short title of the Act is the \"Kelly Loving Act\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1312"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1312 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Kolker", "Faith Winter", "Lorena García", "Rebekah Stewart"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/241a3abd-4a92-43aa-937f-a01c0f1f3613"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1312"
source_hash: "9d934c44e4d374e2ad1525b391f12a813947c5c235e239f867a15537b57f693d"
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 25-1312 (2025A) — Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals

Section 1 of the act specifies that the short title of the Act is the "Kelly Loving Act".

## 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_hb1312_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_s_jud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1312_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1312_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **39–24** (pass) · lower
- PREV ? — **38–20** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **14–21** (fail) · upper
- BILL — **36–20** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **40–24** (pass) · lower
- PREV ? — **37–27** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **19–38** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **36–20** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Kolker — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Lorena García — primary (person)
- Rebekah Stewart — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/241a3abd-4a92-43aa-937f-a01c0f1f3613`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).