---
type: "Bill"
title: "Railroad Safety Requirements"
description: "The act requires that, immediately after a railroad notifies the state's watch center in the department of public safety (watch center) of an emergency involving a train, the watch center must notify the public utilities commission (commission) and the office of rail safety (office) of the incident. The commission is required to submit a report to specified committees of the general assembly on the information reported by railroads regarding an emergency involving a train."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-162"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-162 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Velasco", "Javier Mabrey", "Lisa Cutter", "Marc Snyder"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cc48110-ed8c-4716-b4b5-3876e33ebf5c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-162"
source_hash: "42a34de4462782562acd5fe739492093bea42d243ab31c5e0fec81e6933a82ae"
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 25-162 (2025A) — Railroad Safety Requirements

The act requires that, immediately after a railroad notifies the state's watch center in the department of public safety (watch center) of an emergency involving a train, the watch center must notify the public utilities commission (commission) and the office of rail safety (office) of the incident. The commission is required to submit a report to specified committees of the general assembly on the information reported by railroads regarding an emergency involving a train.

## 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_sb162_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_s_tra_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_s_tra_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_h_fin_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_162_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_162_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **44–19** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **23–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
- Javier Mabrey — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
- Marc Snyder — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — 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)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04T06:00:00+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 Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+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 - Committee
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+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/9cc48110-ed8c-4716-b4b5-3876e33ebf5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).