republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1153.md

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Bill	Statewide Government Language Access Assessment	The act requires the department of personnel (department), in partnership with the office of new Americans, to conduct or contract to conduct a statewide language access assessment of the readiness of principal departments to meet the language access standards outlined in the language access universal policy (assessment). The assessment covers all principal departments except the department of state, the department of the treasury, and the department of law (principal departments). The assessment must identify:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1153	Colorado HB 25-1153 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Elizabeth Velasco Iman Jodeh Junie Joseph	10	14	3	2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0e2086da-dc66-4182-9bdb-ccec19cb38db	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1153	cada71dfdd184b5a58ed3880fa89a779a7172ec413a4a5083b25bb5c78e6e861	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1153 (2025A) — Statewide Government Language Access Assessment

The act requires the department of personnel (department), in partnership with the office of new Americans, to conduct or contract to conduct a statewide language access assessment of the readiness of principal departments to meet the language access standards outlined in the language access universal policy (assessment). The assessment covers all principal departments except the department of state, the department of the treasury, and the department of law (principal departments). The assessment must identify:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT REPORT — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 25–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
• Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
• Junie Joseph — primary (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-30T06:00:00+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
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e2086da-dc66-4182-9bdb-ccec19cb38db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).