republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1023.md

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Bill	Local Government Review of Fencing Projects	On or after July 1, 2025, the act requires a person, before commencing a project to install or substantially repair a contiguous fence of at least a specified certain size in the Sangre de Cristo land grant lands (covered fencing project), to submit an application for the covered fencing project to the local government with jurisdiction over the covered fencing project (application) if the local government has opted into the act's requirements. No later than 14 days after the local government's receipt of an application, the local government must publish notice of the application on the local government's website. No later than 60 days after the local government's receipt of an application, the local government must either approve or reject the application based on certain criteria; except that, despite the criteria, a local government may approve an application if it determines that the benefits of the covered fencing project outweigh the harms. If the local government finds that a covered fencing project presents no significant environmental impacts, then the local government shall not require a person commencing the covered fencing project to submit an application or pay a fee.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1023	Colorado HB 25-1023 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cleave Simpson Jennifer Bacon Julie Gonzales Matthew Martinez	10	14	4	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-27T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f3bd48ee-c525-4bec-aeb1-cd6d9c88e838	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1023	a52b5c67a11327176bd0d30c015c3c790e57b6a6984fb71d95c8a11a518c9d29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1023 (2025A) — Local Government Review of Fencing Projects

On or after July 1, 2025, the act requires a person, before commencing a project to install or substantially repair a contiguous fence of at least a specified certain size in the Sangre de Cristo land grant lands (covered fencing project), to submit an application for the covered fencing project to the local government with jurisdiction over the covered fencing project (application) if the local government has opted into the act's requirements. No later than 14 days after the local government's receipt of an application, the local government must publish notice of the application on the local government's website. No later than 60 days after the local government's receipt of an application, the local government must either approve or reject the application based on certain criteria; except that, despite the criteria, a local government may approve an application if it determines that the benefits of the covered fencing project outweigh the harms. If the local government finds that a covered fencing project presents no significant environmental impacts, then the local government shall not require a person commencing the covered fencing project to submit an application or pay a fee.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 45–19 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 42–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–10 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 43–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Matthew Martinez — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction
• 2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f3bd48ee-c525-4bec-aeb1-cd6d9c88e838. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).