Colorado Senate receives multiple committee recommendations and House messages, adjourns to March 20

The Colorado Senate on March 19 received committee recommendations to amend and refer multiple bills and recorded messages from the House transmitting several bills to the reviser of statutes; the chamber then approved a motion to adjourn until 9 a.m. Thursday, March 20, 2025.

The Committee on Health and Human Services recommended that Senate Bill 125 be amended and, as amended, be referred to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation and the recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The committee also recommended that Senate Bill 124 be amended and, as amended, be referred to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation. The committee recommended that Senate Bill 192 be referred favorably to the Committee on Appropriations.

Committee on Judiciary reported that House Bill 1090 (as read in the transcript) be amended and, as so amended, be referred to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation. The floor also recorded that House Bill 1024 (as read in the transcript) be referred to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation.

The Senate received messages from the House noting that multiple bills had passed third reading and been transmitted to the reviser of statutes. The floor cited passage and transmission for a sequence of House bills (as read in the transcript) and noted amendments printed in the House Journal on March 17 and March 19, 2025. The Senate also returned Senate Bill 140 and Senate Joint Resolution 9, and the reviser transmitted House Bill 1282 (as read in the transcript) without comment.

Majority Leader Rodriguez moved adjournment. "I move the Senate adjourn until 9AM on Thursday, 03/20/2025," Majority Leader Rodriguez said on the floor; the motion carried on a voice vote in which members responded "aye." The transcript does not provide a recorded roll-call tally for that motion.

Why it matters: committee referrals and messages determine the next procedural steps — whether a bill advances to a full floor Committee of the Whole, goes to Appropriations for fiscal review, is placed on a consent calendar for expedited consideration, or is sent to the reviser of statutes for formal drafting and publication. The actions recorded on March 19 primarily affect scheduling and the legislative workflow rather than final policy adoption.

What the record does and does not show: the transcript records committee recommendations and House transmissions but does not include text of the proposed amendments, the substantive content of the bills beyond their short references, nor any roll-call votes on the referred bills. Where the transcript reads bill numbers or fragments (for example, numbers rendered with spaces), this article reports the items as read in the record and notes when details (such as exact amendment text or roll-call tallies) were not specified.

Next steps: referred bills will proceed according to the recommendations — to the Committee of the Whole, to Appropriations, or to possible placement on a consent calendar — and any amended language will be considered at those subsequent stages. The chamber reconvenes at 9 a.m. on Thursday, March 20, 2025, per the adjournment motion.