republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-155.md

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Bill	Keep Presumption Noninjury Well On Divided Land	Under current law, a well that is exempt from the state engineer's administration and is used for domestic purposes is afforded a rebuttable presumption that the use of the well will not cause material injury to others' vested water rights or to any other existing well. If the land on which the exempt well is located is later divided into multiple parcels, the well loses that presumption. The act maintains the presumption of noninjury to vested water rights or other wells when the land on which the well is located is later divided and use of the well continues to meet certain requirements.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-155	Colorado SB 20-155 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Jerry Sonnenberg Rod Pelton	8	15	2	2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4bf18646-f691-4f4d-8212-e2dfbc461ead	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-155	946e6c926560e69d2dbc387700eee9f7d20403a228411470dd341adad00e3f63	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-155 (2020A) — Keep Presumption Noninjury Well On Divided Land

Under current law, a well that is exempt from the state engineer's administration and is used for domestic purposes is afforded a rebuttable presumption that the use of the well will not cause material injury to others' vested water rights or to any other existing well. If the land on which the exempt well is located is later divided into multiple parcels, the well loses that presumption. The act maintains the presumption of noninjury to vested water rights or other wells when the land on which the well is located is later divided and use of the well continues to meet certain requirements.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/19/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (06/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (06/01/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (07/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
• Rod Pelton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 06/01/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/30/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Rural Affairs & Agriculture Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Rural Affairs & Agriculture introduction
• 2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4bf18646-f691-4f4d-8212-e2dfbc461ead. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).