---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fiscal Year 2025-26 Legislative Appropriation Bill"
description: "The act appropriates $74,577,313 to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2025-26 state fiscal year. Of this amount, $72,829,086 is from the general fund, $5,000 is from cash funds, and $1,743,227 is from reappropriated funds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-188"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-188 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Coleman", "Julie McCluskie", "Monica Duran", "Robert Rodriguez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffd44d84-31ef-4cc8-bdf5-2481528b210c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-188"
source_hash: "5282328c9813939bdc1c0e2d4e7a9cd3b9af84f3f2824f5f8411790ff49c9336"
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 25-188 (2025A) — Fiscal Year 2025-26 Legislative Appropriation Bill

The act appropriates $74,577,313 to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2025-26 state fiscal year. Of this amount, $72,829,086 is from the general fund, $5,000 is from cash funds, and $1,743,227 is from reappropriated funds.

## 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_sb188_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_h_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_188_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_188_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **18–16** (pass) · upper
- COW * — **14–20** (fail) · upper
- COW * — **15–19** (fail) · upper
- BILL — **42–23** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **18–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Coleman — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
- Monica Duran — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffd44d84-31ef-4cc8-bdf5-2481528b210c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).