republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1096.md

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Bill	Automated Permits for Clean Energy Technology	The act makes updates to the streamlined solar permitting and inspection grant program (grant program). The grant program provides funding for the adoption and implementation of automated permitting and inspection software. The act clarifies that funding from the grant program may be used by a recipient for eligible expenses for up to 3 years after the grantee implements the automated permitting and inspection software. The act also permits the Colorado energy office (office) to spend up to 9% of the money remaining in the grant program's cash fund as of September 1, 2025, for paying the direct and indirect costs of the office in administering the grant program.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1096	Colorado HB 25-1096 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cathy Kipp Kyle Brown Lesley Smith Matt Ball	10	16	3	2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dc42f142-8720-43ed-a3b1-378b812df173	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1096	a08ef8f6a2f6c936083f7cd31626d408e6c847e224bb76fe1383ecf0b12c35d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1096 (2025A) — Automated Permits for Clean Energy Technology

The act makes updates to the streamlined solar permitting and inspection grant program (grant program). The grant program provides funding for the adoption and implementation of automated permitting and inspection software. The act clarifies that funding from the grant program may be used by a recipient for eligible expenses for up to 3 years after the grantee implements the automated permitting and inspection software. The act also permits the Colorado energy office (office) to spend up to 9% of the money remaining in the grant program's cash fund as of September 1, 2025, for paying the direct and indirect costs of the office in administering the grant program.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/24/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 24–10 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT REPORT — 29–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• Kyle Brown — primary (person)
• Lesley Smith — primary (person)
• Matt Ball — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/25/2025 - No Amendments
• 2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction
• 2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment + Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dc42f142-8720-43ed-a3b1-378b812df173. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).