republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1314.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace Officer Status for Certain Department of Revenue Employees"
description: "Current law grants peace officer status to an auto industry investigator and the director of the auto industry division within the department of revenue (department). Current law limits the scope of peace officer authority for these 2 positions to certain investigative and enforcement functions. The act expands the peace officer authority for the auto industry investigator and auto industry division director positions to include enforcement of all the laws of the state and requires the investigators and director to be peace officers standards and training board (P.O.S.T. board) certified. The act extends peace officer status, along with the expanded authority and P.O.S.T. board certification requirement, to agents in charge, criminal investigator supervisors, and criminal investigators within the auto industry division."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1314"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1314 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cathy Kipp", "Emily Sirota", "William Lindstedt"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07d79424-ac78-4d29-9e91-b9eef994ac70"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1314"
source_hash: "aca843ece0fe6f0994dccd8bc36ca17e9aa63acfded1e8fd2bce59d9908d0f33"
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 25-1314 (2025A) — Peace Officer Status for Certain Department of Revenue Employees

Current law grants peace officer status to an auto industry investigator and the director of the auto industry division within the department of revenue (department). Current law limits the scope of peace officer authority for these 2 positions to certain investigative and enforcement functions. The act expands the peace officer authority for the auto industry investigator and auto industry division director positions to include enforcement of all the laws of the state and requires the investigators and director to be peace officers standards and training board (P.O.S.T. board) certified. The act extends peace officer status, along with the expanded authority and P.O.S.T. board certification requirement, to agents in charge, criminal investigator supervisors, and criminal investigators within the auto industry division.

## 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_hb1314_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1314_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1314_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1314_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1314_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1314_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1314_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1314_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **43–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- William Lindstedt — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-19T06:00:00+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 Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07d79424-ac78-4d29-9e91-b9eef994ac70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).