republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-118.md

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Bill	Encourage Geothermal Energy Use	The bill modifies the following statutory provisions that apply to solar energy so that they also apply to geothermal energy: which generally is using the heat of the earth to generate electricity or to heat or cool space or water:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-118	Colorado SB 22-118 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Donald Valdez Nick Hinrichsen Richard Holtorf Rob Woodward	11	19	4	2022-02-03T07:00:00+00:00	2022-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f1b9553f-938b-4831-8e16-aeea92cfe36d	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-118	d6365925f5085756b4e2406da930863176b8154cf4ad483d0ca6afe301bdf474	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-118 (2022A) — Encourage Geothermal Energy Use

The bill modifies the following statutory provisions that apply to solar energy so that they also apply to geothermal energy: which generally is using the heat of the earth to generate electricity or to heat or cool space or water:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/01/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/01/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/10/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 58–7 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Donald Valdez — primary (person)
• Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
• Richard Holtorf — primary (person)
• Rob Woodward — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment introduction
• 2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2022-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2022-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1b9553f-938b-4831-8e16-aeea92cfe36d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).