republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1299.md

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Bill	Animal Protection Fund Voluntary Contribution	The act creates a voluntary procedure by which an individual may elect to contribute a portion of their state income tax refund as a donation to the animal protection fund (fund). For the income tax years immediately following the year in which the executive director of the department of revenue (department) files written certification with the revisor of statutes that a line on the income tax return form has become available and that the animal protection fund voluntary contribution (contribution) is next in the queue established pursuant to statute, the executive director of the department shall ensure that the Colorado state individual income tax return form contains a line by which each individual taxpayer may designate the amount of the contribution, if any, that the individual wishes to make to the fund. Money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department of agriculture.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1299	Colorado HB 25-1299 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Dylan Roberts Monica Duran Rod Pelton Ryan Armagost	9	15	2	2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00	2025-05-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6d9e466a-1280-4b08-afef-04e9e936cd04	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1299	c18093e5b41c388f34898f8005dba9f9a08e236086e6e56a403084c6b2876bd7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1299 (2025A) — Animal Protection Fund Voluntary Contribution

The act creates a voluntary procedure by which an individual may elect to contribute a portion of their state income tax refund as a donation to the animal protection fund (fund). For the income tax years immediately following the year in which the executive director of the department of revenue (department) files written certification with the revisor of statutes that a line on the income tax return form has become available and that the animal protection fund voluntary contribution (contribution) is next in the queue established pursuant to statute, the executive director of the department shall ensure that the Colorado state individual income tax return form contains a line by which each individual taxpayer may designate the amount of the contribution, if any, that the individual wishes to make to the fund. Money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department of agriculture.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/22/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 45–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Monica Duran — primary (person)
• Rod Pelton — primary (person)
• Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d9e466a-1280-4b08-afef-04e9e936cd04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).