republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-185.md

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Bill	Protections Mineral Interest Owners Forced Pooling	Under current law, when 2 or more separately owned tracts are within an oil and gas drilling unit (unit) established by the Colorado energy and carbon management commission (commission), in the absence of voluntary pooling and after a reasonable offer to lease, made in good faith (offer to lease), the commission may enter an order pooling the mineral interests of those tracts (pooling order) for the development and operation of the unit if the applicant for the pooling order:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	SB 24-185	Colorado SB 24-185 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Judy Amabile Steve Fenberg	10	14	2	2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00	2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d240fdc5-1cea-4ff0-9632-5221c728d751	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-185	4eb6f005bf12b354eaa849f02092fe3d620ad739a2bd48e95b3b886ee2b00d59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 24-185 (2024A) — Protections Mineral Interest Owners Forced Pooling

Under current law, when 2 or more separately owned tracts are within an oil and gas drilling unit (unit) established by the Colorado energy and carbon management commission (commission), in the absence of voluntary pooling and after a reasonable offer to lease, made in good faith (offer to lease), the commission may enter an order pooling the mineral interests of those tracts (pooling order) for the development and operation of the unit if the applicant for the pooling order:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/16/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/17/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/07/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/06/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 45–17 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Steve Fenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources introduction
• 2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d240fdc5-1cea-4ff0-9632-5221c728d751. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).