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type: "Bill"
title: "Youth Involvement in Environmental Justice"
description: "The environmental justice advisory board in the department of public health and environment (advisory board) advises the environmental justice ombudsperson, develops recommendations related to adverse environmental effects on disproportionately impacted communities, and supports the implementation of a grant program to finance environmental mitigation projects. The act adds to the advisory board a voting youth member and a nonvoting youth member, which members are between 14 and 21 years of age."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-055"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-055 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Janice Marchman", "Jennifer Bacon", "Junie Joseph"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17c4bc3d-0b92-4ab9-8de9-28361d977db7"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-055"
source_hash: "4eb020afaca95b13dcdd918973238e61962651846c86e478737f5888be58e05f"
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 25-055 (2025A) — Youth Involvement in Environmental Justice
The environmental justice advisory board in the department of public health and environment (advisory board) advises the environmental justice ombudsperson, develops recommendations related to adverse environmental effects on disproportionately impacted communities, and supports the implementation of a grant program to finance environmental mitigation projects. The act adds to the advisory board a voting youth member and a nonvoting youth member, which members are between 14 and 21 years of age.
## 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_sb055_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_h_ene_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_h_ene_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_055_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_055_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **41–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **23–12** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Janice Marchman — primary (person)
- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Junie Joseph — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`
- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17c4bc3d-0b92-4ab9-8de9-28361d977db7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).