republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1244.md

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

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	Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program	The statewide welcome, reception, and integration grant program provides grants to community-based organizations that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate navigation of services to migrants who have arrived in the United States within the past year and do not qualify for federal support services or refugee resettlement assistance benefits. The act removes the requirement that a migrant must have arrived in the United States within the past year and instead requires community-based organizations to prioritize assisting migrants who have arrived in the United States within the past 3 years.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1244	Colorado HB 25-1244 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Elizabeth Velasco Lisa Cutter Lorena García	8	14	4	2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3bf2a4b4-63f9-4648-a4e0-fbe4741efd16	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1244	515b73df524994ce47d2629d1139c9c24b2e662abdb972403a68bc4dcd7287f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1244 (2025A) — Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program

The statewide welcome, reception, and integration grant program provides grants to community-based organizations that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate navigation of services to migrants who have arrived in the United States within the past year and do not qualify for federal support services or refugee resettlement assistance benefits. The act removes the requirement that a migrant must have arrived in the United States within the past year and instead requires community-based organizations to prioritize assisting migrants who have arrived in the United States within the past 3 years.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/24/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 41–23 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 22–42 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 23–40 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Lorena García — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-24T06:00:00+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
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs 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 Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3bf2a4b4-63f9-4648-a4e0-fbe4741efd16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).