---
type: "Bill"
title: "Title Register & Drive Kei Vehicles"
description: "A kei vehicle is the smallest road-legal, 4-wheeled vehicle in Japan and is imported into the United States as a used vehicle. The act defines a kei vehicle as a motor vehicle for the purposes of the \"Uniform Motor Vehicle Law\" and the \"Certificate of Title Act\". These acts govern issuing a certificate of title, registering a motor vehicle, and the rules of the road for motor vehicles. The act authorizes a kei vehicle to operate on the roads and requires a kei vehicle to be issued a certificate of title, be registered, and obey motor vehicle traffic laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1281"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1281 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byron Pelton", "Larry Don Suckla", "Nick Hinrichsen", "William Lindstedt"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb64a84f-0ff0-4241-951e-0d17d1cc3a4e"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1281"
source_hash: "0d1d7b11c92948ac39670e0c11e9ff5c41f9b7e4ca2150cd84a149f55d40058d"
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 HB 25-1281 (2025A) — Title Register & Drive Kei Vehicles

A kei vehicle is the smallest road-legal, 4-wheeled vehicle in Japan and is imported into the United States as a used vehicle. The act defines a kei vehicle as a motor vehicle for the purposes of the "Uniform Motor Vehicle Law" and the "Certificate of Title Act". These acts govern issuing a certificate of title, registering a motor vehicle, and the rules of the road for motor vehicles. The act authorizes a kei vehicle to operate on the roads and requires a kei vehicle to be issued a certificate of title, be registered, and obey motor vehicle traffic laws.

## 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_hb1281_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_h_thl_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_h_thl_fin_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_h_thl_app_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1281_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/09/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1281_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Byron Pelton — primary (person)
- Larry Don Suckla — primary (person)
- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
- William Lindstedt — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Barron — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`
- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb64a84f-0ff0-4241-951e-0d17d1cc3a4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).