republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1379.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regulate Dredge & Fill Activities in State Waters"
description: "The act requires the water quality control commission (commission) in the department of public health and environment (department) to promulgate rules by December 31, 2025, as necessary to implement a state dredge and fill discharge authorization program (program) and requires the division of administration (division) in the department to administer and enforce authorizations for activities that will result in discharges of dredged or fill material into state waters. The rules must focus on avoidance and minimization of adverse impacts and on compensation for unavoidable adverse impacts of dredge and fill activity (activity) and must incorporate the guidelines developed pursuant to section 404 (b)(1) of the federal \"Clean Water Act\", unless the commission determines, based on a demonstration at a public rule-making hearing, that the guidelines are not protecting state waters. The act specifies certain content that the commission must include in the rules and other content that the commission may include in the rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1379"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1379 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Dylan Roberts", "Julie McCluskie", "Karen McCormick"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3954d91-52e8-4e54-bfb0-f76b77dbedf9"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1379"
source_hash: "5c235de7c85435808420e87245a8221132faf4248f06566309945ebfc9de4dfe"
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 24-1379 (2024A) — Regulate Dredge & Fill Activities in State Waters

The act requires the water quality control commission (commission) in the department of public health and environment (department) to promulgate rules by December 31, 2025, as necessary to implement a state dredge and fill discharge authorization program (program) and requires the division of administration (division) in the department to administer and enforce authorizations for activities that will result in discharges of dredged or fill material into state waters. The rules must focus on avoidance and minimization of adverse impacts and on compensation for unavoidable adverse impacts of dredge and fill activity (activity) and must incorporate the guidelines developed pursuant to section 404 (b)(1) of the federal "Clean Water Act", unless the commission determines, based on a demonstration at a public rule-making hearing, that the guidelines are not protecting state waters. The act specifies certain content that the commission must include in the rules and other content that the commission may include in the rules.

## 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/2024a_hb1379_s_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/26/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/20/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_h_awn_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_h_awn_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_s_fin_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/29/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1379_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/29/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1379_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **55–7** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **56–7** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **58–4** (pass) · lower
- PERM — **56–7** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **56–7** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **43–20** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **52–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
- Karen McCormick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20T06:00:00+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/d3954d91-52e8-4e54-bfb0-f76b77dbedf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).