republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-162.md

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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	Railroad Safety Requirements	The act requires that, immediately after a railroad notifies the state's watch center in the department of public safety (watch center) of an emergency involving a train, the watch center must notify the public utilities commission (commission) and the office of rail safety (office) of the incident. The commission is required to submit a report to specified committees of the general assembly on the information reported by railroads regarding an emergency involving a train.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-162	Colorado SB 25-162 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Elizabeth Velasco Javier Mabrey Lisa Cutter Marc Snyder	11	15	4	2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9cc48110-ed8c-4716-b4b5-3876e33ebf5c	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-162	42a34de4462782562acd5fe739492093bea42d243ab31c5e0fec81e6933a82ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-162 (2025A) — Railroad Safety Requirements

The act requires that, immediately after a railroad notifies the state's watch center in the department of public safety (watch center) of an emergency involving a train, the watch center must notify the public utilities commission (commission) and the office of rail safety (office) of the incident. The commission is required to submit a report to specified committees of the general assembly on the information reported by railroads regarding an emergency involving a train.

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 (05/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/17/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 44–19 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 23–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
• Javier Mabrey — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Marc Snyder — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 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 with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cc48110-ed8c-4716-b4b5-3876e33ebf5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).