republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1143.md

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Bill	Construction Bidding Cost Thresholds for Department of Transportation Projects	The act increases the monetary cost cap at or below which the department of transportation (department) may undertake public projects outside of a competitive bidding process (project cost cap) from $250,000 to $300,000. The department may thereafter annually adjust the project cost cap for inflation, defined as the annual percentage change in the United States department of transportation and federal highway administration's national highway construction cost index or a successor index, and may round the adjusted amount upward to the nearest $5,000. The department must publish this adjusted project cost cap on its website. The act also requires the department to report annually on highway maintenance projects that it completes that cost no more than the project cost cap, including reporting on efficiencies achieved by increasing the project cost cap.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1143	Colorado HB 24-1143 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Byron Pelton Faith Winter Marc Catlin	9	13	4	2024-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/247d8711-e4c2-4449-9c82-641d51981395	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1143	bddb5708949d87751b16a339155289b2f12be484b4aa3b31452d85c064226d94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1143 (2024A) — Construction Bidding Cost Thresholds for Department of Transportation Projects

The act increases the monetary cost cap at or below which the department of transportation (department) may undertake public projects outside of a competitive bidding process (project cost cap) from $250,000 to $300,000. The department may thereafter annually adjust the project cost cap for inflation, defined as the annual percentage change in the United States department of transportation and federal highway administration's national highway construction cost index or a successor index, and may round the adjusted amount upward to the nearest $5,000. The department must publish this adjusted project cost cap on its website. The act also requires the department to report annually on highway maintenance projects that it completes that cost no more than the project cost cap, including reporting on efficiencies achieved by increasing the project cost cap.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/12/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/09/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/13/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/21/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 59–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Byron Pelton — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction
• 2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2024-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/247d8711-e4c2-4449-9c82-641d51981395. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).