Colorado Legislature Passes More Than 210 Bills in Session Marked with Budget Shortfalls, Protests

More than 210 bills have been signed since the 2025 session started in January. In a session pockmarked with budget shortfalls and protests, Colorado lawmakers still managed to pass a few important bills this year. 

One bill reduces the state-paid portion of assistant district attorney salaries at each judicial district from 50% to 25%. Another bill passed this session seeks to address the delays in DNA evidence and sexual assault kit testing. The bill would require the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to spend specifically appropriated money on backlogged tests, and it would allow the CBI to contract with external labs to perform the testing. The bill also called for CBI to create a dashboard on the Department of Public Safety’s website to update the public on the backlog.


  • HB25-1010Prohibiting Price Gouging in Sales of Necessities
  • HB25-1015Ability to Pay Bond Online Clarifications
  • HB25-1034Changes to Dangerous Dog Statute
  • HB25-1041Student Athlete Name Image or Likeness
  • HB25-1050Regional County Jail Approach
  • HB25-1058Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Defense
  • HB25-1081Reporting Statistics on Restitution
  • HB25-1114Defense Review of Tangible Object for Criminal Trial
  • HB25-1116Department of Corrections Search Court Records Before Offender Release
  • HB25-1133Requirements for Sale of Firearms Ammunition
  • HB25-1138Protect Victims in Civil Sex Misconduct Suits
  • HB25-1148Criminal Protection Order & Protection Order Violation
  • HB25-1185Child Conceived from Sex Assault Court Proceedings
  • HB25-1217Funeral Services & Consumer Protections
  • SB25-001Colorado Voting Rights Act
  • SB25-024Judicial Officers
  • SB25-129Legally Protected Health-Care Activity Protections
  • SB25-133Colorado Voidable Transactions Act
  • SB25-170Deoxyribonucleic Acid & Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Testing & Data
  • SB25-196Insurance Coverage Preventive Health-Care Services
  • SB25-199Suspend Legislative Interim Activities
  • SB25-208Department of Corrections Inmate Phone Costs
  • SB25-209Offender Refuse Community Corrections Placement
  • SB25-211Department of Corrections Budgeting Reports
  • SB25-215Repealing Colorado Student Leaders Institute
  • SB25-216Eliminate Reprinting of Education Laws
  • SB25-218Permissible Colorado Department of Education Uses of School Transformation Grants
  • SB25-221School District Reporting Additional Mill Levy Revenue
  • SB25-223Mill Levy Equalization & Institute Charter Schools
  • SB25-238Repeal School Mental Health Screening Act
  • SB25-239Nonattorney Access to Court Data
  • SB25-240Electronic Discovery in Criminal Cases Task Force
  • SB25-241Deposit Bond Forfeitures in Judicial Fund
  • SB25-244Reduce State Funding Assistant District Attorney Salaries
  • SB25-259Eliminate Destroyed Property Tax Reimbursement Program
  • SB25-260Repeal Colorado Household Financial Recovery Pilot Program
  • SB25-266Repeal Statutory Appropriation Requirements

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