republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-168.md

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Bill	Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking	The act adds species that appear in Appendix I to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES Appendix I) to the wildlife covered under Colorado's wildlife trafficking and wildlife possession laws. The act clarifies that species listed on Colorado's endangered and threatened species list or the endangered and threatened species list pursuant to the federal "Endangered Species Act of 1973", 16 U.S.C. sec. 1531 et seq. (federal act) are also covered under Colorado's wildlife possession and wildlife trafficking laws.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-168	Colorado SB 25-168 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cecelia Espenoza Dylan Roberts Ryan Armagost Scott Bright	9	14	2	2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d9e29bae-d348-4dc8-93f3-d2f04160c996	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-168	e76a421bd8716e8c7c5324d6f565fc100a079e904ee264dfef3ba035e75c3d97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-168 (2025A) — Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking

The act adds species that appear in Appendix I to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES Appendix I) to the wildlife covered under Colorado's wildlife trafficking and wildlife possession laws. The act clarifies that species listed on Colorado's endangered and threatened species list or the endangered and threatened species list pursuant to the federal "Endangered Species Act of 1973", 16 U.S.C. sec. 1531 et seq. (federal act) are also covered under Colorado's wildlife possession and wildlife trafficking laws.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/24/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 53–10 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 31–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cecelia Espenoza — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
• Scott Bright — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Barron — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources introduction
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9e29bae-d348-4dc8-93f3-d2f04160c996. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).