republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1291.md

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Bill	Alternate Storage Not Change If Already Quantified	Current law allows water to be stored only at a location that has been specifically identified in a decree. The bill allows a water right for which the historical consumptive use was previously quantified to be stored in any reservoir, without the necessity of adjudicating an additional change of water right, if:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1291	Colorado HB 17-1291 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Don Coram Jeni James Arndt Jon Becker	10	12	3	2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2017-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cc02e342-8bda-49c9-aa2f-deb6d6ece47a	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1291	80411ac78f7cbef4c60b8cf46c77b55c71ab512d0f63f4a56a1ca97b07b0c874	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1291 (2017A) — Alternate Storage Not Change If Already Quantified

Current law allows water to be stored only at a location that has been specifically identified in a decree. The bill allows a water right for which the historical consumptive use was previously quantified to be stored in any reservoir, without the necessity of adjudicating an additional change of water right, if:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Amendment L.001 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (04/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/18/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (03/24/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (04/19/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/24/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/03/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/02/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 17-1291 to the Committee of the Whole with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 11-0. — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1291, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.001. The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)
• Jon Becker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2017-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy introduction
• 2017-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2017-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc02e342-8bda-49c9-aa2f-deb6d6ece47a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).