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type: "Bill"
title: "Utility Consumer Protection"
description: "The act prohibits the department of human services (department) from requiring an applicant for the low-income home energy assistance program (program) to provide their citizenship or immigration status on an application for assistance under the program, unless that information is required as a condition of eligibility for the program. The department is also prohibited from sharing the citizenship or immigration status of an applicant for or recipient of assistance under the program with any federal law enforcement agency, unless disclosure is required by law or court order."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1234"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1234 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Junie Joseph", "Katie Wallace", "Naquetta Ricks"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a92ba991-643e-440d-a4a4-8937acb9bce2"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1234"
source_hash: "1944faba9abc9a47ac78996943f56e011036c4250e21e6be0efd72faced2f6d2"
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 25-1234 (2025A) — Utility Consumer Protection
The act prohibits the department of human services (department) from requiring an applicant for the low-income home energy assistance program (program) to provide their citizenship or immigration status on an application for assistance under the program, unless that information is required as a condition of eligibility for the program. The department is also prohibited from sharing the citizenship or immigration status of an applicant for or recipient of assistance under the program with any federal law enforcement agency, unless disclosure is required by law or court order.
## 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_hb1234_s_tra_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/12/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_h_ene_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_s_tra_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1234_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1234_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **23–11** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **41–21** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **41–21** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **43–20** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Junie Joseph — primary (person)
- Katie Wallace — primary (person)
- Naquetta Ricks — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 04/04/2025 - No Amendments
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T07:00:00+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/a92ba991-643e-440d-a4a4-8937acb9bce2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).