republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-028.md

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Bill	Groundwater Compact Compliance Fund	The act creates the groundwater compact compliance and sustainability fund (fund) to help finance groundwater use reduction and sustainability efforts in the Rio Grande river basin and the Republican river basin, such as efforts to buy and retire irrigation wells and irrigated acreage in the river basins. The Colorado water conservation board (board) administers the fund and can make expenditures from the fund based on recommendations from the board of directors of the Rio Grande water conservation district or the Republican river water conservation district. A conservation district's recommendations must first be approved by the state engineer.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-028	Colorado SB 22-028 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Cleave Simpson Dylan Roberts Jerry Sonnenberg Marc Catlin	10	17	4	2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00	2022-05-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/628908f0-7216-45c9-89ed-9b3c4d945090	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-028	d9b27b43e6196ebb08d3a3d2a51650d7814fb97d7ea6df3453e54dcd18f60e99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-028 (2022A) — Groundwater Compact Compliance Fund

The act creates the groundwater compact compliance and sustainability fund (fund) to help finance groundwater use reduction and sustainability efforts in the Rio Grande river basin and the Republican river basin, such as efforts to buy and retire irrigation wells and irrigated acreage in the river basins. The Colorado water conservation board (board) administers the fund and can make expenditures from the fund based on recommendations from the board of directors of the Rio Grande water conservation district or the Republican river water conservation district. A conservation district's recommendations must first be approved by the state engineer.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/15/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/12/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/27/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/27/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/17/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/27/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/23/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Water Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Water introduction
• 2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2022-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/628908f0-7216-45c9-89ed-9b3c4d945090. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).