republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1242.md

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Bill	Water Conservation In Oil And Gas Operations	The act requires an oil and gas operator in the state (operator), on or before September 1, 2023, on a monthly basis, with respect to each oil and gas well, and on or before January 1, 2024, and quarterly thereafter, with respect to the operator's oil and gas operations generally, to report information to the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission (commission) regarding the operator's use of water entering, utilized at, or exiting each of the operator's wells or oil and gas locations, including information on the recycling and reuse of produced water.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1242	Colorado HB 23-1242 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Andrew Boesenecker Junie Joseph Kevin Priola Lisa Cutter	11	16	4	2023-03-11T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d9b1ba11-d131-4ece-a11c-87cc215af586	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1242	8204679ba29a949c48c9c764c834fdfb2b42b82753528a845cf4f0e176127bac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1242 (2023A) — Water Conservation In Oil And Gas Operations

The act requires an oil and gas operator in the state (operator), on or before September 1, 2023, on a monthly basis, with respect to each oil and gas well, and on or before January 1, 2024, and quarterly thereafter, with respect to the operator's oil and gas operations generally, to report information to the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission (commission) regarding the operator's use of water entering, utilized at, or exiting each of the operator's wells or oil and gas locations, including information on the recycling and reuse of produced water.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 51–13 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 46–18 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 41–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andrew Boesenecker — primary (person)
• Junie Joseph — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9b1ba11-d131-4ece-a11c-87cc215af586. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).