---
type: "Bill"
title: "Future of Severance Taxes & Water Funding Task Force"
description: "The act creates the future of severance taxes and water funding task force (task force)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-040"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-040 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Dylan Roberts", "Karen McCormick", "Matthew Martinez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9319ed09-428a-44c0-9d51-ed4f87e41783"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-040"
source_hash: "75b7d051c9401ebcb4ca38d0017d138908b4c2eff4d138f82ed14a62553d736c"
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 25-040 (2025A) — Future of Severance Taxes & Water Funding Task Force

The act creates the future of severance taxes and water funding task force (task force).

## 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_sb040_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_s_agr_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_s_agr_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_040_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_040_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **57–7** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
- Matthew Martinez — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- L. Suckla — cosponsor (person)
- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pugliese — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Winter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **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 with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9319ed09-428a-44c0-9d51-ed4f87e41783`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).