republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1177.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Utility Economic Development Rate Tariff Adjustments"
description: "Under current law, an investor-owned electric utility (utility) may apply to the public utilities commission (commission) for approval to charge certain commercial or industrial customers of the utility an economic development rate (economic development rate), which is a reduced rate offered to a commercial or industrial customer that locates or expands their operations in Colorado, that adds at least 3 megawatts of new load at a single location within the utility's service territory, and that demonstrates certain other requirements to the satisfaction of the utility (qualifying commercial or industrial customer)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1177"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1177 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byron Pelton", "Nick Hinrichsen", "Tisha Mauro", "Ty Winter"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c420ecc4-cfd6-4732-8b90-9960b86eb981"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1177"
source_hash: "dc52e9364e6687e00a053ac6717ad3b054f88f498380f5dbb5f6eaab2eb6031c"
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 25-1177 (2025A) — Utility Economic Development Rate Tariff Adjustments

Under current law, an investor-owned electric utility (utility) may apply to the public utilities commission (commission) for approval to charge certain commercial or industrial customers of the utility an economic development rate (economic development rate), which is a reduced rate offered to a commercial or industrial customer that locates or expands their operations in Colorado, that adds at least 3 megawatts of new load at a single location within the utility's service territory, and that demonstrates certain other requirements to the satisfaction of the utility (qualifying commercial or industrial customer).

## 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_hb1177_s_tra_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1177_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1177_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1177_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1177_h_ene_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1177_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1177_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1177_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1177_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **62–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Byron Pelton — primary (person)
- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
- Tisha Mauro — primary (person)
- Ty Winter — primary (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T07:00:00+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/c420ecc4-cfd6-4732-8b90-9960b86eb981`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).