HB 25-1115

House Bill 25-1115, also known as the Water Supply Measurement and Forecasting Program, allows the Colorado Water Conservation Board to create a program that collects data on snowpack levels and explores new technologies for measuring water supply. This information will help predict future water supplies more accurately. The bill allocates $104,608 from the state budget to fund this initiative in the 2025-26 fiscal year, with some of that money going to support technology services. Since it has been signed into law, the program can now be implemented by the Department of Natural Resources.

Official Summary

The act authorizes the Colorado water conservation board (board) to administer a water supply measurement and forecasting program to collect and disseminate data on snowpack levels, investigate technological advances in snowpack measurement and water supply forecasting, and collect other data that the board determines will assist in those efforts. For the 2025-26 state fiscal year, $104,608 is appropriated to the department of natural resources (department) from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund for the department to implement the act. Of the money appropriated, $15,960 is reappropriated to the office of the governor for use by the office of information technology to provide information technology services for the department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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