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ColoradoSB25-3102025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Proposition 130 Implementation
Sponsored By: Barbara Kirkmeyer (Republican), Jeff Bridges (Democratic), Rick Taggart (Republican), Shannon Bird
Signed by Governor
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6 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
First responder survivors get $1 million
Eligible survivors receive a total $1 million when a peace officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder has a qualifying death. Death must occur on or after November 5, 2024, directly from a work injury or work-related disease. Coverage includes qualifying deaths after leaving service, during approved leave, or during qualified military service. A spouse gets everything without surviving children; otherwise, the spouse gets half and children share half equally. Without a spouse, surviving children share everything equally. Without either, payment goes first to the latest designated beneficiary, then life-insurance beneficiaries, then surviving biological or adoptive parents equally. Public Safety must approve eligibility and identify a payee living on the decision date; otherwise, no payment is made. This benefit cannot reduce other disability, insurance, or Colorado workers’ compensation payments.
Survivors get a death-benefit tax break
Starting with tax years beginning January 1, 2026, eligible recipients can subtract their full death-benefit payment when figuring Colorado taxable income. This subtraction applies when the death does not qualify for federal line-of-duty tax treatment. Public Safety must determine federal tax status and notify recipients and the Department of Revenue. The subtraction remains available until at least five years after the last payment is made. Revenue officials must track and report the number of taxpayers claiming it and the total amount claimed.
Police grants add money with safeguards
Eligible local law enforcement agencies receive annual grants beginning no later than December 31, 2026, through the funding goal year. Each gets $15,000 plus its budgeted officer count times a statewide per-officer amount. That amount equals annual transfers minus legislative appropriations and all agency base payments, divided by all reported officers. Counts include certified peace officers, noncertified deputy sheriffs, and detention officers. The state transfers $15 million on July 1, 2026, then the greater of $15 million or the adjusted investment amount each July 1 starting in 2027, until total transfers reach $350 million. Lawmakers may appropriate up to $20 million for 2026–27. Agencies must certify next-year staffing, permitted-purpose budgets, and local spending commitments by December 15 each year, starting in 2026. Awards cover only listed officer costs, including recruitment, specified additional hiring, education, training, and pay. Local governments must add to existing state and local funding, not replace it; prior-funding cuts create a presumed violation that timely records can rebut. Annual audits must show compliance, amounts received and spent, and spending purposes; Public Safety reviews them and can request more information. The law also repeals three earlier public safety provisions as part of the new framework.
State reserve protections require budget cuts
The Governor must promptly cut spending when revenue estimates show appropriations leaving the year-end General Fund reserve below $1 billion. Cuts must restore that level, and the Governor must promptly notify lawmakers. Until the fiscal year after officer-fund transfers reach $350 million, lawmakers cannot lower the required reserve below $1 billion without reducing the state pension payment. That reduction equals the gap below $1 billion, capped by the remaining amount recorded as deferred pension resources.
Public pensions gain funds, face diversions
The law requires a $500 million General Fund payment to Colorado’s public employee pension association on July 1, 2025. That amount counts toward unrestricted General Fund year-end balances. Starting July 1, 2027, annual pension payments are reduced to help fund peace officer support until transfers reach $350 million. Reductions use the lowest statutory limit, including $35 million and the remaining amount needed to reach that goal. Related pension earnings and payment reductions feed the officer fund’s adjusted investment calculation, with backfill and repayment adjustments; reserve-related reductions are not counted twice. Beginning July 1, 2025, the pension association may change distribution allocations when the usual method leaves blended contributions below 98% of required contributions. These changes must bring that measure to at least 98%, and none of the distribution can go to the local government division.
State funds first responder survivor payments
The law funds survivor payments with $5 million General Fund transfers on July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. Starting July 1, 2027, the state checks the balance annually and transfers any shortfall on July 2 to restore $10 million. The fund can also receive gifts, grants, appropriations, and other transfers. For 2025–26, Public Safety receives $5,046,967 from the fund to implement the program, including an added half-time staff position. Administrative spending is limited to 2% of the amount appropriated each year.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Barbara Kirkmeyer
Republican • Senate
Jeff Bridges
Democratic • Senate
Rick Taggart
Republican • House
Shannon Bird
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
Brianna Titone
Democratic • House
Chad Clifford
Democratic • House
Eliza Hamrick
Democratic • House
Jarvis Caldwell
Republican • House
Julie McCluskie
Democratic • House
Monica Duran
Democratic • House
Matt Soper
Republican • House
Rep. R. Armagost
Affiliation unavailable
Ty Winter
Republican • House
Byron Pelton
Republican • Senate
John Carson
Republican • Senate
Kyle Mullica
Democratic • Senate
Marc Catlin
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/6/2025
House amendments: Repass
Yes: 35 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/6/2025
House amendments: Concur
Yes: 35 • No: 0
House vote • 5/5/2025
Third reading: Amd (l.019)
Yes: 64 • No: 0
House vote • 5/5/2025
Third reading: Amd (l.018)
Yes: 64 • No: 0
House vote • 5/5/2025
Third reading: Perm
Yes: 63 • No: 1
House vote • 5/5/2025
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 55 • No: 9
House vote • 5/1/2025
Refer Senate Bill 25-310, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.
Yes: 9 • No: 2
Senate vote • 4/30/2025
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 35 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/30/2025
Third reading: Amend (l.003)
Yes: 35 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/30/2025
Third reading: Amend (l.004)
Yes: 35 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/29/2025
Refer Senate Bill 25-310, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar.
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
6/2/2025HouseSent to the Governor
5/13/2025HouseSigned by the President of the Senate
5/13/2025SenateSigned by the Speaker of the House
5/13/2025HouseSenate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
5/6/2025SenateHouse Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor
5/5/2025HouseHouse Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
5/3/2025HouseHouse Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
5/1/2025HouseHouse Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily with Amendments - Committee, Floor
5/1/2025HouseSenate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor
4/30/2025SenateIntroduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
4/30/2025HouseSenate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
4/29/2025SenateSenate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
4/29/2025SenateIntroduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
4/24/2025Senate
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