republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1157.md

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Bill	Loaned Water For Instream Flows To Improve Environment	Under current law, the Colorado water conservation board (board), subject to procedural requirements established to prevent injury to water rights and decreed conditional water rights, may use loaned water for instream flows if the loaned water is used for preserving the natural environment of a stream reach that is subject to a decreed instream flow water right held by the board. The act expands the number of years within a 10-year period that a renewable loan may be exercised from 3 years to 5 years, but for no more than 3 consecutive years, and allows a loan to be renewed for up to 2 additional 10-year periods. The act limits the duration that an expedited loan may be exercised for up to one year, and prohibits an applicant from seeking additional expedited loans regarding a water right following an approved expedited loan of that water right.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1157	Colorado HB 20-1157 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Dylan Roberts Kerry Donovan Perry Will	9	13	2	2020-01-17T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/70896187-016f-402e-ac96-f1a036ac24cc	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1157	09090a13847b26c6c02e4a64171985418ba354cd16f1107cd1c0ec088b60ccbb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1157 (2020A) — Loaned Water For Instream Flows To Improve Environment

Under current law, the Colorado water conservation board (board), subject to procedural requirements established to prevent injury to water rights and decreed conditional water rights, may use loaned water for instream flows if the loaned water is used for preserving the natural environment of a stream reach that is subject to a decreed instream flow water right held by the board. The act expands the number of years within a 10-year period that a renewable loan may be exercised from 3 years to 5 years, but for no more than 3 consecutive years, and allows a loan to be renewed for up to 2 additional 10-year periods. The act limits the duration that an expedited loan may be exercised for up to one year, and prohibits an applicant from seeking additional expedited loans regarding a water right following an approved expedited loan of that water right.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/14/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/17/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/19/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/21/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 28–6 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 60–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction
• 2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2020-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Rural Affairs & Agriculture Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-17T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Rural Affairs & Agriculture introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70896187-016f-402e-ac96-f1a036ac24cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).