Summary of SB25-199 Amendments to Colorado Revised StatutesPurpose
The bill introduces temporary modifications to the operations of several legislative councils and committees, primarily suspending their meetings and legislative recommendations for specific periods.
Key Changes
Colorado Youth Advisory Council (2-2-1303, 2-2-1304)
Membership appointments for 2025 are excluded from the usual process.
The council will meet only once in July 2025 and will not meet in 2026.
Contracts for nonprofit support services are suspended from July 2025 - June 2027.
Review Committees and Oversight Groups (2-2-1305.5, 10-22-107, 10-16-221, etc.)
Multiple legislative review and oversight committees (e.g., Suicide Prevention Commission, Health Care Review Committee) are not allowed to meet or recommend legislation in 2025.
No meetings or legislative recommendations in 2025.
Normal operations resume after July 1, 2026.
Colorado Health Insurance Exchange Oversight Committee (10-22-107)
No meetings or reports in 2025.
Restrictions lifted July 1, 2026.
Opioid and Substance Use Disorders Study Committee (10-22.3-101)
Allowed only six meetings in 2025.
The final report must be submitted by December 1, 2025.
Pension Review Commission (24-51.1-101)
No meetings or reporting requirements in 2025.
Legislative members will not receive per diem compensation if they attend meetings voluntarily.
Restrictions lifted July 1, 2026.
Legislative Oversight Committee on Tax Policy (39-21-403)
No meetings in 2025.
Normal operations resume after July 1, 2026.
Implications
These changes suggest a temporary reduction in legislative committee activities, potentially due to budget constraints, restructuring, or shifts in legislative priorities.
Some committees will still submit reports but will not hold regular meetings or make legislative recommendations.
Most suspensions and limitations expire by July 1, 2026, restoring regular committee functions.
Summary
Executive Committee of the Legislative Council. The bill
suspends legislative interim committee activities during the 2025 legislative interim (interim). Specifically, the bill:
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Prohibits the legislative council of the general assembly from prioritizing any requests for interim committees, including task forces, for the interim;
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Limits the Colorado youth advisory council review committee (committee) to meeting once in the 2025 interim, to receive the report from the youth advisory council (council), prohibits the committee and council from meeting or presenting bills in the 2026 interim, and precludes the council from contracting with a nonprofit organization to provide services for the council in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 fiscal years;
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Prohibits meetings, field trips, and legislative recommendations and reports by, and suspends for one year certain reports required to be submitted to, existing interim committees, including the legislative emergency preparedness, response, and recovery committee; legislative oversight committee for Colorado jail standards; statewide health care review committee; Colorado health insurance exchange oversight committee; opioid and other substance use disorders study committee; legislative oversight committee concerning the treatment of persons with behavioral health disorders in the criminal and juvenile justice systems; pension review commission and pension review subcommittee; legislative oversight committee concerning tax policy; and sales and use tax simplification task force.
