republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-291.md

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Bill	Utility Regulation	Section 1 of the act requires the public utilities commission (commission), if relying on a discount rate when calculating the net present value of future carbon-based fuel costs as part of a utility's electric resource plan, to apply a discount rate that does not exceed the long-term rate of inflation. The commission is required to determine an appropriate rate of inflation specifically for fuel costs.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-291	Colorado SB 23-291 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Chris deGruy Kennedy Lisa Cutter Matthew Martinez Steve Fenberg	11	15	4	2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-11T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1bf5d7f3-9023-4e0d-9ea6-863f425fc2f0	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-291	b99e47e575f36576f23b6334487816896150dfc4897159588a5118ef1befb603	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-291 (2023A) — Utility Regulation

Section 1 of the act requires the public utilities commission (commission), if relying on a discount rate when calculating the net present value of future carbon-based fuel costs as part of a utility's electric resource plan, to apply a discount rate that does not exceed the long-term rate of inflation. The commission is required to determine an appropriate rate of inflation specifically for fuel costs.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 46–19 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 21–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris deGruy Kennedy — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Matthew Martinez — primary (person)
• Steve Fenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1bf5d7f3-9023-4e0d-9ea6-863f425fc2f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).