---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transit Reform"
description: "The act makes the following changes for the purpose of improving the performance of the regional transportation district (RTD):"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-161"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-161 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Iman Jodeh", "Meg Froelich", "William Lindstedt"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5be02a6a-2bb0-4a7b-8881-696b93c5d3f7"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-161"
source_hash: "4344daca5521132abc3ccd4e39682cce037cfcf9b93d88fd9a52086697a53576"
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 25-161 (2025A) — Transit Reform

The act makes the following changes for the purpose of improving the performance of the regional transportation district (RTD):

## 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_sb161_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_s_tra_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_s_tra_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_h_thl_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_161_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_161_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- 2nd COMMITTEE — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- NOT CONCUR APPT CC — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BYD SCP — **41–20** (pass) · lower
- BYD SCP — **44–19** (pass) · lower
- REJECT — **44–21** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT — **42–23** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **43–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
- Meg Froelich — primary (person)
- William Lindstedt — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of Second Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of Second Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Second Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Reject, Discharge and Appoint
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Reject, Discharge and Appoint
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **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 - Committee, Floor
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government `introduction`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/21/2025 - No Amendments
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5be02a6a-2bb0-4a7b-8881-696b93c5d3f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).