---
type: "Bill"
title: "Battery Stewardship Programs"
description: "The act requires an organization, defined in the act as a battery stewardship organization, to, no later than July 1, 2027, and every 5 years thereafter, submit to the executive director of the department of public health and environment (executive director) a battery stewardship plan (plan), which is a plan for the collection, transportation, processing, and recycling of certain batteries."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-163"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-163 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kyle Brown", "Lisa Cutter", "Matt Ball", "Rebekah Stewart"]
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/ac5fb670-e4c5-4f24-961e-958407befdde"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-163"
source_hash: "d9cbdf1a0b20743b801000d46b2c30cde860fe5f5702919159ad543d6c671faa"
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 25-163 (2025A) — Battery Stewardship Programs

The act requires an organization, defined in the act as a battery stewardship organization, to, no later than July 1, 2027, and every 5 years thereafter, submit to the executive director of the department of public health and environment (executive director) a battery stewardship plan (plan), which is a plan for the collection, transportation, processing, and recycling of certain batteries.

## 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_sb163_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_h_fin_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_163_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_163_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **21–11** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kyle Brown — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
- Matt Ball — primary (person)
- Rebekah Stewart — primary (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — 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. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — 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`
- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+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
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac5fb670-e4c5-4f24-961e-958407befdde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).