republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-068.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal Utility Unclaimed Utility Deposit Program"
description: "The unclaimed utility deposits program (program) helps finance electric and gas utility bill payment assistance for income-qualified households. The program is partially funded by electric and gas utilities' contributions of money that are owed to utility ratepayers but that have remained unclaimed by the ratepayers for more than 2 years. The act clarifies that a municipally owned electric or gas utility may elect to participate in the program or develop a similar mechanism for utilizing unclaimed utility deposits for utility bill payment assistance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-068"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-068 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Paschal", "Marc Snyder", "Paul Lundeen", "Rose Pugliese"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f1c3119-8ced-4b05-b22c-1445002b6ec9"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-068"
source_hash: "a6aff86a5feb9c12a568ca8c400ec3a3e9ea27a4d26f45c11de80d8c51870929"
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 25-068 (2025A) — Municipal Utility Unclaimed Utility Deposit Program

The unclaimed utility deposits program (program) helps finance electric and gas utility bill payment assistance for income-qualified households. The program is partially funded by electric and gas utilities' contributions of money that are owed to utility ratepayers but that have remained unclaimed by the ratepayers for more than 2 years. The act clarifies that a municipally owned electric or gas utility may elect to participate in the program or develop a similar mechanism for utilizing unclaimed utility deposits for utility bill payment assistance.

## 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_sb068_h_ene_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_068_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_068_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/22/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_068_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_068_h_ene_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_068_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_068_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_068_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_068_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amy Paschal — primary (person)
- Marc Snyder — primary (person)
- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
- Rose Pugliese — primary (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
- M. Bradfield — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`
- **2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f1c3119-8ced-4b05-b22c-1445002b6ec9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).