republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-281.md

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Bill	Increase Penalties Careless Driving	Current law states that a person who commits careless driving and thereby causes the death of an individual commits a class 1 misdemeanor traffic offense. The act expands current law to include careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury and states that if a person commits careless driving and thereby causes the serious bodily injury or death of more than one individual, each individual injure or killed is a separate violation. The act also clarifies that careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury or death is an included crime for the purposes of the "Victim Rights Act".	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-281	Colorado SB 25-281 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cecelia Espenoza John Carson Marc Snyder Ryan Armagost	10	14	2	2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00	2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/24086161-04d7-42e8-9e18-2e08ebd07a54	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-281	232711f187b6c8f4110eafb9df47199b2509350864ece46f7ce4bd4484ea1bed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-281 (2025A) — Increase Penalties Careless Driving

Current law states that a person who commits careless driving and thereby causes the death of an individual commits a class 1 misdemeanor traffic offense. The act expands current law to include careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury and states that if a person commits careless driving and thereby causes the serious bodily injury or death of more than one individual, each individual injure or killed is a separate violation. The act also clarifies that careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury or death is an included crime for the purposes of the "Victim Rights Act".

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 59–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cecelia Espenoza — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Marc Snyder — primary (person)
• Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
• C. Barron — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• C. Simpson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• D. Woog — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
• L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
• M. Baisley — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• P. Lundeen — cosponsor (person)
• R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
• R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
• R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bright — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — 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
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
• 2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24086161-04d7-42e8-9e18-2e08ebd07a54. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).