Support for Statewide Energy Strategies
The bill requires the director of the division of oil and public safety in the department of labor and employment to adopt rules concerning retail electric vehicle charging by July 1, 2026, and to enforce the rules beginning July 1, 2027. The bill also broadens the allowable uses of money in the electric vehicle grant fund within the Colorado energy office to include:
- Operational and policy work to support electric vehicle adoption, electric vehicle charging, and affordable, clean electricity for electric motor vehicles, including covering the administrative costs of this work; and
- Support for the development and enforcement of retail electric vehicle charging rules by the division of oil and public safety.
The bill also allows the community access enterprise (enterprise) within the Colorado energy office to reduce the amount of the community access retail delivery fee that it imposes, as necessary to ensure that the enterprise does not collect more than $100 million in total fee revenue prior to June 30, 2026.
For the 2025-26 state fiscal year, $225,320 is appropriated to the department of labor and employment for use by the division of oil and public safety for personal services and operating expenses. This appropriation is from reappropriated funds received from the office of the governor that is continuously appropriated to the Colorado energy office from the electric vehicle grant fund.
(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)