republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1274.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Species Conservation Trust Fund Projects"
description: "The act appropriates $5 million from the species conservation trust fund for programs that are designed to conserve native species that state or federal law lists as threatened or endangered or that are candidate species or are likely to become candidate species for such listing as determined by the United States fish and wildlife service. Of the $5 million, the act allocates $750,000 for native terrestrial wildlife conservation, $1,500,000 for native aquatic wildlife conservation, $2,200,000 for the upper Colorado river endangered fish recovery program and the San Juan river basin recovery implementation program, $50,000 for selenium management, research, monitoring, evaluation, and control, and $500,000 for the federal endangered species act litigation program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1274"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1274 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Karen McCormick", "Marc Catlin", "Perry Will"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a6a6918-9675-4cae-9daf-48ab0fdf09f7"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1274"
source_hash: "cf4cc0e4dd231dfad0f94c26e13a4325c7258896ec4ba52726a12e81f06c1139"
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 HB 23-1274 (2023A) — Species Conservation Trust Fund Projects

The act appropriates $5 million from the species conservation trust fund for programs that are designed to conserve native species that state or federal law lists as threatened or endangered or that are candidate species or are likely to become candidate species for such listing as determined by the United States fish and wildlife service. Of the $5 million, the act allocates $750,000 for native terrestrial wildlife conservation, $1,500,000 for native aquatic wildlife conservation, $2,200,000 for the upper Colorado river endangered fish recovery program and the San Juan river basin recovery implementation program, $50,000 for selenium management, research, monitoring, evaluation, and control, and $500,000 for the federal endangered species act litigation 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/2023a_hb1274_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1274_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1274_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1274_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1274_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (05/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1274_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/28/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1274_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (06/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1274_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **62–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)
- Perry Will — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a6a6918-9675-4cae-9daf-48ab0fdf09f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).