republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1005.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Tax Incentive for Film Festivals	The act creates a new refundable tax credit only if at least one qualified film festival entity with a multi-decade operating history and a verifiable track record of attracting 100,000 or more in-person ticket sales and over 10,000 out-of-state and international attendees (global film festival entity) commences the relocation of the festival to Colorado by January 1, 2026. Upon relocation, for calendar years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2037, the maximum aggregate amount of refundable tax credits that any qualified global film festival entity is eligible to receive is $34 million and the maximum aggregate amount that all existing or small Colorado festival entities collectively may receive is $5 million. A film festival entity is allowed a tax credit for each tax year in which the film festival entity hosts a film festival in Colorado, and may be allowed an additional tax credit in the subsequent tax year with respect to any qualified expenditures incurred in the year the film festival entity hosted the film festival in Colorado.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1005	Colorado HB 25-1005 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Brianna Titone Judy Amabile Mark Baisley Monica Duran	9	16	6	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9538e063-ff44-4c93-8b38-955e74e979ed	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1005	a5264a48cd01a9b6e4c70b0c923d8784f2979cadbe905d664f56f419d3d10b94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1005 (2025A) — Tax Incentive for Film Festivals

The act creates a new refundable tax credit only if at least one qualified film festival entity with a multi-decade operating history and a verifiable track record of attracting 100,000 or more in-person ticket sales and over 10,000 out-of-state and international attendees (global film festival entity) commences the relocation of the festival to Colorado by January 1, 2026. Upon relocation, for calendar years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2037, the maximum aggregate amount of refundable tax credits that any qualified global film festival entity is eligible to receive is $34 million and the maximum aggregate amount that all existing or small Colorado festival entities collectively may receive is $5 million. A film festival entity is allowed a tax credit for each tax year in which the film festival entity hosts a film festival in Colorado, and may be allowed an additional tax credit in the subsequent tax year with respect to any qualified expenditures incurred in the year the film festival entity hosted the film festival in Colorado.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 28–5 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 43–17 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 19–42 (fail) · lower
• ADOPT REPORT — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 19–42 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 20–41 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Brianna Titone — primary (person)
• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Mark Baisley — primary (person)
• Monica Duran — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• C. Simpson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rich — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Soper — cosponsor (person)
• R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9538e063-ff44-4c93-8b38-955e74e979ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).