republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1137.md

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Bill	Adopt a Shelter Pet Account Community Cats	The act authorizes the Colorado pet overpopulation authority (authority) to distribute money to encourage a pet animal facility, a pet animal rescue, and a spay and neuter organization located in Colorado (animal welfare facility) to trap, neuter, and return to its habitat a free-roaming domestic cat that may have a caretaker and is not socialized to humans (community cat). The adopt a shelter pet account in the pet overpopulation fund (account) provides the funding for these services. The authority will allocate funding pursuant to the direction of the authority's board of directors (board).	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1137	Colorado HB 25-1137 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Elizabeth Velasco Faith Winter Mandy Lindsay	10	15	4	2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5ae19863-56a4-4721-9fdf-268c87cc32fe	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1137	587f3d23be24ce2e5e4cf265651e8d85fbe68cc6a6094f1574b4e1252c4d14f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1137 (2025A) — Adopt a Shelter Pet Account Community Cats

The act authorizes the Colorado pet overpopulation authority (authority) to distribute money to encourage a pet animal facility, a pet animal rescue, and a spay and neuter organization located in Colorado (animal welfare facility) to trap, neuter, and return to its habitat a free-roaming domestic cat that may have a caretaker and is not socialized to humans (community cat). The adopt a shelter pet account in the pet overpopulation fund (account) provides the funding for these services. The authority will allocate funding pursuant to the direction of the authority's board of directors (board).

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/26/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/17/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 39–25 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 41–22 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 44–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction
• 2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ae19863-56a4-4721-9fdf-268c87cc32fe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).