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type: "Bill"
title: "Coal Transition Grants"
description: "The act requires the office of just transition (office) in the department of labor and employment to prioritize awarding funding to support tier one and tier 2 coal transition communities experiencing socioeconomic impacts of coal closures and for opportunities for economic diversification, local community input, feasibility studies of specific proposed projects, and needs assessments. The office is required to use money appropriated to the just transition cash fund after July 1, 2025, to support programs that support targeted investment in coal transition communities by collaborating with coal transition communities and eligible entities, state and regionally recognized governmental and economic development entities, employee organizations that represent coal transition workers, and workers who are not affiliated with employee organizations to implement the most effective projects and programs for those communities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-037"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-037 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Dylan Roberts", "Rick Taggart", "Tisha Mauro"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b32488bc-a46c-4cea-9e3a-66be487e780b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-037"
source_hash: "207c1319ee99abffcd4a51f1bf25b1c5e9809a9b53c6dca8ecfdfa87c667f208"
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 SB 25-037 (2025A) — Coal Transition Grants
The act requires the office of just transition (office) in the department of labor and employment to prioritize awarding funding to support tier one and tier 2 coal transition communities experiencing socioeconomic impacts of coal closures and for opportunities for economic diversification, local community input, feasibility studies of specific proposed projects, and needs assessments. The office is required to use money appropriated to the just transition cash fund after July 1, 2025, to support programs that support targeted investment in coal transition communities by collaborating with coal transition communities and eligible entities, state and regionally recognized governmental and economic development entities, employee organizations that represent coal transition workers, and workers who are not affiliated with employee organizations to implement the most effective projects and programs for those communities.
## 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_sb037_h_bus_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_s_blt_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_h_bus_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_037_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_037_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- REPASS — **58–6** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- NOT CONCUR APPT CC — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- BYD SCP — **62–1** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **57–8** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT — **61–2** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
- Tisha Mauro — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Simpson — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Feret — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pugliese — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b32488bc-a46c-4cea-9e3a-66be487e780b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).