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Votes at a glance: House adopts package of third‑reading bills April 21, 2025
Summary
The Colorado House approved a broad set of third‑reading bills April 21, 2025, including measures ranging from school meals and assisted‑reproduction protections to technical and appropriation bills. This roundup lists each bill acted on and the recorded outcome where the roll call is reported in the transcript.
The Colorado House completed third‑reading consideration of a large set of bills and several conference committee reports on April 21, 2025, adopting a slate of measures that were reported to the chamber on second reading. Many bills were adopted by recorded roll calls; where the transcript records a tally that number is listed below. Where a numerical tally was not clearly reported in the transcript the vote is marked as “not specified.”
Votes at a glance (bill → outcome; vote tally as recorded in the transcript when available):
- House Bill 12‑74 (Healthy School Meals for All program) — adopted (yes 40, no 22, 3 excused). - House Bill 12‑84 (regulation of apprentices in licensed trades) — adopted (yes 41, no 21, 3 excused). - House Bill 11‑98 (regional planning roundtable commission; amended) — adopted (yes 38, no 25, 2 excused). - House Bill 13‑13 (changes within the purview of the capital development committee) — adopted (tally not clearly specified in transcript; reported adopted). - Senate Bill 178 (K–5 social and emotional health pilot) — adopted (tally not clearly specified in transcript; reported adopted). - House Bill 10‑39 (muffler requirements for commercial vehicles) — adopted (yes 41, no 22, 2 excused). - House Bill 13‑03 (DOT enterprise to lower insurance costs) — adopted (yes 38, no 25, 2 excused). - House Bill 12‑67 (statewide energy strategies; EV charging and grant fund changes) — adopted (yes 40, no 23, 2 excused). - House Bill 11‑71 (adding motor vehicle theft to certain weapon‑possession offenses) — adopted (yes 36, no 27, 2 excused). - Senate Bill 2 (regional building codes for factory‑built structures, as amended) — adopted (yes 40, no 23, 2 excused). - House Bill 12‑59 (assisted reproduction, including IVF and related protections) — adopted (yes 40, no 23, 2 excused). - House Bill 13‑18 (appropriation for Species Conservation Trust Fund projects) — adopted (yes 50, no 13, 2 excused). - House Bill 10‑83 (vehicle transactions for deployed military families) — adopted (yes 63, no 0, 2 excused). - Senate Bill 125 (committee on legal services recommendations / agency rules review) — adopted (yes 47, no 16, 2 excused). - Senate Bill 174 (continuation of outfitters regulation per 2024 sunset report) — adopted (yes 50, no 13, 2 excused). - Senate Bill 177 (continuation of early childhood leadership commission) — adopted (yes 53, no 11, 1 excused). - House Bill 13‑16 (technical changes to electronic prescription monitoring definitions) — adopted (yes 58, no 6, 1 excused). - House Bill 12‑15 (redistribution of lottery fund distributions and new cash funds) — adopted (yes 48, no 16, 1 excused). - House Bill 13‑30 (exempting quantum computing equipment from Consumer Repair Bill of Rights) — adopted (yes 63, no 1, 1 excused). - Senate Bill 128 (repeal of provisions interfering with agricultural employees’ access to service providers) — adopted (yes 53, no 11, 1 excused). - House Bill 12‑93 (overdose prevention measures for students, contingent fundraising) — adopted (yes 60, no 4, 1 excused). - Conference committee report on Senate Bill 206 (fiscal year 2025‑26 state appropriations long bill) — conference report adopted (yes 55, no 9, 1 excused); subsequent repassage of Senate Bill 206 as amended — repassed (yes 43, no 21, 1 excused). - Senate Bill 45 (analysis of consumer right to cancel automatic renewals — note: this was considered and reported/adopted; transcript records passage but no clear roll‑call tally available in the provided excerpt).*
*If further numerical roll‑call details are required for any item marked “not specified,” they are available in the official House journal and recorded roll‑call files published by the Chief Clerk.
Why this matters: The bills adopted range from technical fixes and funding changes to policy matters with broader civic impact — for example, K–5 social and emotional health pilot funding, statewide energy and EV charging provisions, and statutory protections connected to assisted reproduction. The long‑bill conference report (Senate Bill 206) completes the chamber’s action on appropriations for the 2025‑26 fiscal year and includes restorations and technical adjustments reported in conference.
