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type: "Bill"
title: "Adopt a Shelter Pet Account Community Cats"
description: "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)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1137"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1137 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Velasco", "Faith Winter", "Mandy Lindsay"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ae19863-56a4-4721-9fdf-268c87cc32fe"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1137"
source_hash: "587f3d23be24ce2e5e4cf265651e8d85fbe68cc6a6094f1574b4e1252c4d14f2"
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 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](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_hb1137_s_agr_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_h_awn_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_s_agr_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1137_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1137_signed.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ae19863-56a4-4721-9fdf-268c87cc32fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).