First Regular Session
Seventy-fifth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO
INTRODUCED
LLS NO. 25-0889.04 Jason Gelender x4330
SENATE BILL 25-257
Senate Committees House Committees
Appropriations
A BILL FOR AN ACT
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ONCERNING MODIFICATION OF ANNUAL TRANSFERS FROM THE101
GENERAL FUND TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND .102
Bill Summary
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
http://leg.colorado.gov/
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Joint Budget Committee. The bill modifies the schedule and
amounts of annual transfers from the general fund to the state highway
fund as follows:
! The $100 million transfer to the state highway fund
scheduled for July 1, 2025, is reduced to $36 million;
! The $100 million transfer to the state highway fund
SENATE SPONSORSHIP
Bridges and Kirkmeyer, Amabile
HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
Bird and Taggart, Sirota
Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment.
Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law.
Dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law. scheduled for July 1, 2026, is reduced to $50.5 million;
! The $82.5 million transfers to the state highway fund
scheduled for each July 1 from July 1, 2029, through July
1, 2031, are increased to $100 million;
! A new $61 million transfer to the state highway fund is
scheduled for July 1, 2032; and
! The $7 million transfers to the state highway fund for the
purpose of providing additional funding for the revitalizing
main streets program scheduled for each July 1 from July
1, 2025, through July 1, 2031, are eliminated.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:1
SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-75-219, amend2
(7)(d) and (7)(e); and repeal (7)(c)(II) as follows:3
24-75-219. Transfers - transportation - capital construction -4
definitions - repeal. (7) In addition to any other transfers required by5
this section:6
(c) On each July 1 from July 1, 2024, through July 1, 2031, the7
state treasurer shall transfer:8
(II) Seven million dollars from the general fund to the state
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highway fund for the purpose of providing additional funding for the10
revitalizing main streets program.11
(d) (I) On each July 1 from July 1, 2024, through July 1, 202812
J
ULY 1, 2025, the state treasurer shall transfer one hundred
THIRTY-SIX13
million dollars from the general fund to the state highway fund; and 14
(II) On each July 1 from July 1, 2029, through July 1, 2031 JULY15
1,
2026, the state treasurer shall transfer eighty-two
FIFTY million five16
hundred thousand dollars from the general fund to the state highway fund; 17
(III) O
N EACH JULY 1 FROM JULY 1, 2027, THROUGH JULY 1, 2031,18
THE STATE TREASURER SHALL TRANSFER ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS19
FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND ; AND20
SB25-257-2- (IV) ON JULY 1, 2032, THE STATE TREASURER SHALL TRANSFER1
SIXTY-ONE MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE STATE2
HIGHWAY FUND.3
(e) The department of transportation shall expend ten million4
dollars of each transfer from the general fund to the state highway fund5
made pursuant to subsection (7)(d)(I) SUBSECTION (7)(d)(I), (7)(d)(II), OR6
(7)(d)(III) of this section from July 1, 2024 JULY 1, 2025, through July 1,7
2028, solely to mitigate the environmental and health impacts of8
increased air pollution from motor vehicle emissions in nonattainment9
areas by funding projects that reduce vehicle miles traveled or that10
directly reduce air pollution.11
SECTION 2. Safety clause. The general assembly finds,12
determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate13
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety or for appropriations for14
the support and maintenance of the departments of the state and state15
institutions.16
SB25-257
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