republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-173.md

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Bill	Revenue Classification Taxpayers Bill of Rights	Section 20 of article X of the state constitution (TABOR) defines "fiscal year spending" as not including either "damage awards" or "property sales". Although TABOR does not define either "damage award" or "property sale", the TABOR implementing statutes do. The act clarifies both of these definitions for state fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2024.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-173	Colorado SB 25-173 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Lorena García Mike Weissman Yara Zokaie	9	16	4	2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8bb23ec7-bd8a-47b6-83ff-6dc4c02ff705	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-173	087d22ebd0cab7992c492fb2e35ba74f7d225dd8b5cf2e6afb49e1d42f6296f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-173 (2025A) — Revenue Classification Taxpayers Bill of Rights

Section 20 of article X of the state constitution (TABOR) defines "fiscal year spending" as not including either "damage awards" or "property sales". Although TABOR does not define either "damage award" or "property sale", the TABOR implementing statutes do. The act clarifies both of these definitions for state fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2024.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 20–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lorena García — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• Yara Zokaie — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — 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. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2025-03-14T06:00:00+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 Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8bb23ec7-bd8a-47b6-83ff-6dc4c02ff705. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).