republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-061.md

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Bill	Federally Recognized Tribes & Construction of Laws	Current Colorado laws do not always expressly provide whether the laws apply to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe or the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (Tribes). The act creates a rule of construction that a law does not apply to the Tribes unless the law clearly and expressly states that the law applies to the Tribes.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-061	Colorado SB 25-061 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cleave Simpson Junie Joseph Ron Weinberg	9	13	4	2025-01-21T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/550e65f2-d5ed-4b7d-84da-3dc3a8d04416	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-061	abaa72f2db23461820f1989de6c0bdc2a13aabf77a5531dba89a0f56d5007bda	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-061 (2025A) — Federally Recognized Tribes & Construction of Laws

Current Colorado laws do not always expressly provide whether the laws apply to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe or the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (Tribes). The act creates a rule of construction that a law does not apply to the Tribes unless the law clearly and expressly states that the law applies to the Tribes.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AMEND — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 58–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
• Junie Joseph — primary (person)
• Ron Weinberg — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• P. Lundeen — cosponsor (person)
• R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction
• 2025-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-01-21T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/550e65f2-d5ed-4b7d-84da-3dc3a8d04416. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).