---
type: "Bill"
title: "Achieving a Better Life Experience Tax Deduction"
description: "The act extends the achieving a better life experience state income tax deduction (ABLE deduction) until December 31, 2030."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-302"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-302 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cathy Kipp", "Cleave Simpson", "Lorena García", "Yara Zokaie"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-24T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d40e52a-06eb-4a79-8a8a-8b87230c71b6"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-302"
source_hash: "a17a81ba0116366741ae2695aa0c16775ba2aede1267aafc0c39c8ec7f43dc7a"
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 25-302 (2025A) — Achieving a Better Life Experience Tax Deduction

The act extends the achieving a better life experience state income tax deduction (ABLE deduction) until December 31, 2030.

## 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_sb302_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_302_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_302_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_302_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_302_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_302_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (05/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_302_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/24/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_302_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **50–14** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
- Lorena García — primary (person)
- Yara Zokaie — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d40e52a-06eb-4a79-8a8a-8b87230c71b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).