republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-309.md

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Bill	Authorize Legislative Fellows	The act authorizes the legislative council to approve agreements between the director of research of the legislative council and nonpartisan organizations to place nonpartisan legislative policy fellows (fellows) in the legislative council staff. The act also specifies the types of work that fellows may do, requires the director of research to retain supervisory authority over fellows, including over the terms and conditions of the fellowship, and requires any work product produced by a fellow during the fellowship to remain the property of the general assembly during and after the conclusion of the fellowship. The legislative council is prohibited from approving any agreement between the director of research of the legislative council and a nonpartisan organization that is registered as a lobbyist with the secretary of state to place a fellow in the legislative council staff.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-309	Colorado SB 25-309 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cleave Simpson Kyle Brown Mary Bradfield	8	14	5	2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00	2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2326839c-96a1-4726-835d-346068a4670e	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-309	b7d2c3fca294f0d74595a3d43cdcd5800b6920ff9283a7bd5d1d82d50a4924c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-309 (2025A) — Authorize Legislative Fellows

The act authorizes the legislative council to approve agreements between the director of research of the legislative council and nonpartisan organizations to place nonpartisan legislative policy fellows (fellows) in the legislative council staff. The act also specifies the types of work that fellows may do, requires the director of research to retain supervisory authority over fellows, including over the terms and conditions of the fellowship, and requires any work product produced by a fellow during the fellowship to remain the property of the general assembly during and after the conclusion of the fellowship. The legislative council is prohibited from approving any agreement between the director of research of the legislative council and a nonpartisan organization that is registered as a lobbyist with the secretary of state to place a fellow in the legislative council staff.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/24/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 44–20 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 34–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
• Kyle Brown — primary (person)
• Mary Bradfield — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Baisley — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee of the Whole Amendment - Change from Lost to Passed
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2326839c-96a1-4726-835d-346068a4670e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).