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type: "Bill"
title: "In God We Trust Special License Plate"
description: "The act creates the \"In God We Trust\" license plate for motor vehicles. In addition to the normal fees for a license plate, a person must pay 2 additional one-time fees of $25 for the issuance of the plate. One of these fees is credited to the highway users tax fund and the other fee is credited to the Colorado DRIVES vehicle services account."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-025"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-025 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Baisley", "Scott Bottoms", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65a89da6-1246-4949-9e1b-a23869e5707f"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-025"
source_hash: "cb3be414bc472db06d306f9c8c29ea92fa8928c29f5df6e8bc75a1b988464cfc"
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 23-025 (2023A) — In God We Trust Special License Plate
The act creates the "In God We Trust" license plate for motor vehicles. In addition to the normal fees for a license plate, a person must pay 2 additional one-time fees of $25 for the issuance of the plate. One of these fees is credited to the highway users tax fund and the other fee is credited to the Colorado DRIVES vehicle services account.
## 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_sb025_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_025_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_025_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_025_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_025_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/19/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_025_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_025_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_025_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_025_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **4420** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **247** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mark Baisley — primary (person)
- Scott Bottoms — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10T07:00:00+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/65a89da6-1246-4949-9e1b-a23869e5707f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).