---
type: "Bill"
title: "Colorado Voting Rights Act"
description: "The act creates the Colorado Voting Rights Act (state voting rights act) and modifies certain election-related statutes in the following areas:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-001"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-001 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Bacon", "Julie Gonzales", "Junie Joseph"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 15
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cc66d2f-80e9-4b4f-b9b6-3b8568e3825a"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-001"
source_hash: "dfb912b290d1abb8463e4a70547f5b8c4093d2a72d269916303ca1204dfa6c1a"
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 25-001 (2025A) — Colorado Voting Rights Act

The act creates the Colorado Voting Rights Act (state voting rights act) and modifies certain election-related statutes in the following areas:

## 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_sb001_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_s_sa_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_s_sa_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_h_sa_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_001_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_001_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **20–12** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **22–38** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **21–39** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **20–12** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **21–39** (fail) · lower
- PERM — **59–3** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **21–39** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **20–40** (fail) · lower
- COW * — **20–14** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **22–38** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **20–40** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **23–39** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **43–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Junie Joseph — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+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`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5cc66d2f-80e9-4b4f-b9b6-3b8568e3825a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).