First Regular Session
Seventy-fifth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO
REVISED
This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted
on Second Reading in the Second House
LLS NO. 25-0889.04 Jason Gelender x4330
SENATE BILL 25-257
Senate Committees House Committees
Appropriations Appropriations
A BILL FOR AN ACT
C
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
HOUSE
Amended 2nd Reading
April 9, 2025
SENATE
3rd Reading Unamended
April 3, 2025
SENATE
2nd Reading Unamended
April 2, 2025
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-TWO13
million TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND dollars from the general fund to the14
state highway fund; and 15
(II) On each July 1 from July 1, 2029, through July 1, 2031 JULY16
1,
2026, the state treasurer shall transfer eighty-two
FIFTY million five17
hundred thousand dollars from the general fund to the state highway fund; 18
(III) O
N EACH JULY 1 FROM JULY 1, 2027, THROUGH JULY 1, 2031,19
THE STATE TREASURER SHALL TRANSFER ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS20
257-2- FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND ; AND1
(IV) O
N JULY 1, 2032, THE STATE TREASURER SHALL TRANSFER2SIXTY-FOUR MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THE3
GENERAL FUND TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND .4
(e) The department of transportation shall expend ten million5
dollars of each transfer from the general fund to the state highway fund6
made pursuant to subsection (7)(d)(I) SUBSECTION (7)(d)(I), (7)(d)(II), OR7
(7)(d)(III) of this section from July 1, 2024 JULY 1, 2025, through July 1,8
2028, solely to mitigate the environmental and health impacts of9
increased air pollution from motor vehicle emissions in nonattainment10
areas by funding projects that reduce vehicle miles traveled or that11
directly reduce air pollution.12
SECTION 2. Safety clause. The general assembly finds,13
determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate14
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety or for appropriations for15
the support and maintenance of the departments of the state and state16
institutions.17
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