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type: "Bill"
title: "Uncontested Special Director District Election Cancellation"
description: "The act clarifies that a special district may cancel an election in a director district if the only matter to be decided at the election is who will be director of the director district, there are not more candidates than positions for director, and the only individuals who may vote are the eligible electors within the director's district."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-172"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-172 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Clifford", "John Carson", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2aba11e0-be3b-4ae9-bf64-2b6686f071f6"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-172"
source_hash: "4a1184baafec3d344e95bb4b18b47e9929a327558cf6e59c2ea39e362d68ac6c"
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 25-172 (2025A) — Uncontested Special Director District Election Cancellation
The act clarifies that a special district may cancel an election in a director district if the only matter to be decided at the election is who will be director of the director district, there are not more candidates than positions for director, and the only individuals who may vote are the eligible electors within the director's district.
## 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_sb172_h_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_172_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_172_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_172_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_172_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_172_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_172_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_172_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- AMEND — **340** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **650** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chad Clifford — primary (person)
- John Carson — primary (person)
- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)
- R. Pugliese — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2aba11e0-be3b-4ae9-bf64-2b6686f071f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).