republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-270.md

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Bill	Projects To Restore Natural Stream Systems	The act states that the following projects within a natural stream system for certain restoration purposes (stream restoration project) do not cause material injury to a vested water right and are not an unnecessary dam or other obstruction:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-270	Colorado SB 23-270 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Cleave Simpson Dylan Roberts Karen McCormick Marc Catlin	9	14	2	2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6f72def1-3056-4969-b79d-2b9c92244b87	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-270	1a401fbf9b44d431af9dd9d58fc33da88db4475b7fad0114d409358b9a828673	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-270 (2023A) — Projects To Restore Natural Stream Systems

The act states that the following projects within a natural stream system for certain restoration purposes (stream restoration project) do not cause material injury to a vested water right and are not an unnecessary dam or other obstruction:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Karen McCormick — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources introduction
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f72def1-3056-4969-b79d-2b9c92244b87. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).