republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-170.md

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Bill	Deoxyribonucleic Acid & Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Testing & Data	The act requires the Colorado bureau of investigation (CBI) to spend $3,000,000 in specifically appropriated money from House Bill 24-1430, concerning the provision for payment of the expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado, and of its agencies and institutions, for and during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, except as otherwise noted, on backlogged DNA evidence and sexual assault kit tests, as well as DNA retesting related to CBI's laboratory misconduct that was discovered in 2023. Additionally, the act allows CBI to contract with external labs to perform the testing.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-170	Colorado SB 25-170 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Emily Sirota Judy Amabile Shannon Bird	8	13	2	2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00	2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3906de43-7030-44c8-97b4-2d0f93136e6e	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-170	8839997d9955632d563a1bc7d0a80612b84bdb49d8986e7d43e3af50c8d2d759	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-170 (2025A) — Deoxyribonucleic Acid & Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Testing & Data

The act requires the Colorado bureau of investigation (CBI) to spend $3,000,000 in specifically appropriated money from House Bill 24-1430, concerning the provision for payment of the expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado, and of its agencies and institutions, for and during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, except as otherwise noted, on backlogged DNA evidence and sexual assault kit tests, as well as DNA retesting related to CBI's laboratory misconduct that was discovered in 2023. Additionally, the act allows CBI to contract with external labs to perform the testing.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/26/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 60–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Barron — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
• L. Garcia Sander — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Soper — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• R. Armagost — cosponsor (person)
• R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
• R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
• R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• T. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3906de43-7030-44c8-97b4-2d0f93136e6e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).