republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1449.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental Sustainability Circular Economy"
description: "The act repeals the pollution prevention advisory board and the pollution prevention advisory board assistance committee when the act takes effect, repeals the recycling resources economic opportunity program on October 1, 2025, and repeals the front range waste diversion enterprise and replaces it with the Colorado circular communities enterprise (enterprise). The enterprise, in merging and modernizing the purposes of the recycling resources economic opportunity program and the front range waste diversion enterprise, awards grants and other funding and provides technical assistance to local governments, nonprofit and for-profit businesses, public and private schools, and institutions of higher education throughout the state that pursue a circular economy for waste management, including waste diversion and aversion. The act also creates the statewide voluntary sustainability program to support businesses engaging, or looking to engage, in sustainability efforts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1449"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1449 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Junie Joseph", "Kevin Priola", "Lisa Cutter", "Mandy Lindsay"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/712d6d4e-d4aa-49b2-aaab-2f1c417bd2e3"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1449"
source_hash: "08802516e03e67e8f2a0eb956275e65cadeb9375d4c4e60ec52952a6085e91e0"
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 24-1449 (2024A) — Environmental Sustainability Circular Economy

The act repeals the pollution prevention advisory board and the pollution prevention advisory board assistance committee when the act takes effect, repeals the recycling resources economic opportunity program on October 1, 2025, and repeals the front range waste diversion enterprise and replaces it with the Colorado circular communities enterprise (enterprise). The enterprise, in merging and modernizing the purposes of the recycling resources economic opportunity program and the front range waste diversion enterprise, awards grants and other funding and provides technical assistance to local governments, nonprofit and for-profit businesses, public and private schools, and institutions of higher education throughout the state that pursue a circular economy for waste management, including waste diversion and aversion. The act also creates the statewide voluntary sustainability program to support businesses engaging, or looking to engage, in sustainability efforts.

## 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_hb1449_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/11/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_h_ene_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_h_ene_fin_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1449_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1449_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **50–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Junie Joseph — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/07/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/712d6d4e-d4aa-49b2-aaab-2f1c417bd2e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).