republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-272.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regional Transportation Authority Sales & Use Tax Exemption"
description: "The act establishes a sales and use tax exemption for contractors and subcontractors that purchase, store, use, or consume construction and building materials for use in the building, erection, alteration, or repair of structures owned and used by a regional transportation authority (authority) to house authority employees or contractors. The act authorizes an authority or an authority's board to build, erect, alter, or repair such structures for the purpose of housing employees or contractors of an authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-272"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-272 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Velasco", "Faith Winter", "Marc Catlin", "Meg Froelich"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afe6d223-8f00-4a38-a9d3-9e459c059123"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-272"
source_hash: "d4398c6acdb90f0a5395dc0a9e9ee48b077cc5da0bd108c6f0c9bc96fd10a907"
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 25-272 (2025A) — Regional Transportation Authority Sales & Use Tax Exemption

The act establishes a sales and use tax exemption for contractors and subcontractors that purchase, store, use, or consume construction and building materials for use in the building, erection, alteration, or repair of structures owned and used by a regional transportation authority (authority) to house authority employees or contractors. The act authorizes an authority or an authority's board to build, erect, alter, or repair such structures for the purpose of housing employees or contractors of an authority.

## 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_sb272_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_272_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_272_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_272_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_272_s_tra_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_272_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_272_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_272_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_272_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **43–21** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **30–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)
- Meg Froelich — primary (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+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/afe6d223-8f00-4a38-a9d3-9e459c059123`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).