republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-068.md

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Bill	Municipal Utility Unclaimed Utility Deposit Program	The unclaimed utility deposits program (program) helps finance electric and gas utility bill payment assistance for income-qualified households. The program is partially funded by electric and gas utilities' contributions of money that are owed to utility ratepayers but that have remained unclaimed by the ratepayers for more than 2 years. The act clarifies that a municipally owned electric or gas utility may elect to participate in the program or develop a similar mechanism for utilizing unclaimed utility deposits for utility bill payment assistance.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-068	Colorado SB 25-068 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Amy Paschal Marc Snyder Paul Lundeen Rose Pugliese	9	13	4	2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00	2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0f1c3119-8ced-4b05-b22c-1445002b6ec9	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-068	a6aff86a5feb9c12a568ca8c400ec3a3e9ea27a4d26f45c11de80d8c51870929	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-068 (2025A) — Municipal Utility Unclaimed Utility Deposit Program

The unclaimed utility deposits program (program) helps finance electric and gas utility bill payment assistance for income-qualified households. The program is partially funded by electric and gas utilities' contributions of money that are owed to utility ratepayers but that have remained unclaimed by the ratepayers for more than 2 years. The act clarifies that a municipally owned electric or gas utility may elect to participate in the program or develop a similar mechanism for utilizing unclaimed utility deposits for utility bill payment assistance.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Amy Paschal — primary (person)
• Marc Snyder — primary (person)
• Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
• Rose Pugliese — primary (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• C. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
• M. Bradfield — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• R. English — cosponsor (person)
• R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment introduction
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f1c3119-8ced-4b05-b22c-1445002b6ec9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).