---
type: "Bill"
title: "Embodied Carbon Reduction"
description: "Embodied carbon is the carbon associated with greenhouse gas emissions arising from the production, construction, use, and end-of-life of products or systems used in the construction of buildings, roads, and other infrastructure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-182"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-182 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Kyle Brown", "Matt Ball", "Ron Weinberg"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c05acde-2109-4798-a903-01dcb7c31c20"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-182"
source_hash: "b3d92fb298fb12c01a21c553efe538c5767f5171acfee469af761b4b808fce36"
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 25-182 (2025A) — Embodied Carbon Reduction

Embodied carbon is the carbon associated with greenhouse gas emissions arising from the production, construction, use, and end-of-life of products or systems used in the construction of buildings, roads, and other infrastructure.

## 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_sb182_h_thl_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_182_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_182_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_182_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_182_s_tra_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_182_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_182_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/24/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_182_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_182_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **45–18** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
- Kyle Brown — primary (person)
- Matt Ball — primary (person)
- Ron Weinberg — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government `introduction`
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T07:00:00+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/9c05acde-2109-4798-a903-01dcb7c31c20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).