---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Temporary Care for Children Funding"
description: "Existing law repeals the following provisions on June 30, 2026; the act changes the repeal date for those provisions to June 30, 2025:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-235"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-235 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Bridges", "Judy Amabile", "Rick Taggart", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26257325-9d8d-4829-8bf5-66f7b259a0b2"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-235"
source_hash: "b954406f8783f557a75e28e1ffaabca54b20a59c7b1d8ed611a40a51691c766a"
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 25-235 (2025A) — Emergency Temporary Care for Children Funding

Existing law repeals the following provisions on June 30, 2026; the act changes the repeal date for those provisions to June 30, 2025:

## 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_sb235_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_235_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_235_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_235_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_235_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_235_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/09/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_235_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_235_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **60–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
- B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+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/26257325-9d8d-4829-8bf5-66f7b259a0b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).