---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vacancies in the General Assembly"
description: "Section 1 of the act defines a \"major political party vacancy election\", which is an election that is conducted as part of an odd-year coordinated election to fill a vacancy in the general assembly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1315"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1315 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Emily Sirota", "Mike Weissman", "Rose Pugliese"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d2b93da-df08-4f7f-9319-66fe74dacaea"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1315"
source_hash: "865bd1209b9708c9d01f9674eb35cc0cd20a8f6238409b234a864332ec4ff733"
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 25-1315 (2025A) — Vacancies in the General Assembly

Section 1 of the act defines a "major political party vacancy election", which is an election that is conducted as part of an odd-year coordinated election to fill a vacancy in the general assembly.

## 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_hb1315_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/09/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_h_sa_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_h_sa_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_s_sa_01.pdf)
8. **PA4 (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_s_sa_app_01.pdf)
9. **Reengrossed (04/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_ren.pdf)
10. **Rerevised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_rer.pdf)
11. **Revised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1315_rev.pdf)
12. **Signed Act (05/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1315_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **55–9** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **53–8** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **9–47** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **59–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
- Rose Pugliese — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Bradfield — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 04/21/2025 - No Amendments
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d2b93da-df08-4f7f-9319-66fe74dacaea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).