republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-180.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Programs To Reduce Ozone Through Increased Transit"
description: "The act creates the ozone season transit grant program (program) in the Colorado energy office (office). The program provides grants to the regional transportation district (RTD) and transit associations in order to provide free transit services for at least 30 days during ozone season. A transit association receiving a grant may use the money to make grants to eligible transit agencies. The eligible transit agencies may use the money to provide at least 30 days of new or expanded free transit services during ozone season. The RTD may use grant money to cover up to 80% of the costs of providing free transit for at least 30 days on all services offered by the RTD during ozone season. Eligible transit agencies and the RTD can use the money to cover lost fare box revenues and to pay for other expenses necessary to implement the program, including expenses associated with an increase in ridership as a result of the program. The RTD and a transportation association receiving a grant are required to report to the office on the services offered and estimates of the change in ridership as a result of the program. The act transfers $28 million from the general fund to a newly-created ozone season transit grant program fund, and the money is continuously appropriated to the office for the program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-180"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-180 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Jennifer Bacon", "Matt Gray", "Nick Hinrichsen"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-26T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a88c96b4-0d75-4595-a7fe-225481c5c87e"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-180"
source_hash: "845856c09d16f5e35855ed18fa30ea87c7dadbb42a6c0c349e700f767cf9e88b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado SB 22-180 (2022A) — Programs To Reduce Ozone Through Increased Transit

The act creates the ozone season transit grant program (program) in the Colorado energy office (office). The program provides grants to the regional transportation district (RTD) and transit associations in order to provide free transit services for at least 30 days during ozone season. A transit association receiving a grant may use the money to make grants to eligible transit agencies. The eligible transit agencies may use the money to provide at least 30 days of new or expanded free transit services during ozone season. The RTD may use grant money to cover up to 80% of the costs of providing free transit for at least 30 days on all services offered by the RTD during ozone season. Eligible transit agencies and the RTD can use the money to cover lost fare box revenues and to pay for other expenses necessary to implement the program, including expenses associated with an increase in ridership as a result of the program. The RTD and a transportation association receiving a grant are required to report to the office on the services offered and estimates of the change in ridership as a result of the program. The act transfers $28 million from the general fund to a newly-created ozone season transit grant program fund, and the money is continuously appropriated to the office for the program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_sb180_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_h_ene_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_180_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/26/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_180_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–23** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **22–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Matt Gray — primary (person)
- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`
- **2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 04/20/2022 - No Amendments
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a88c96b4-0d75-4595-a7fe-225481c5c87e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).