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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Special Education Funding"
+description: "The act increases the required annual appropriation to the department of education from the state education fund or the general fund by an additional $40,203,671 for children who have one or more disabilities and who receive special education services from a school district, board of cooperative services, a charter school network, a charter school collaborative, or the state charter school institute that is providing educational services to exceptional children."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2023A"
+identifier: "SB 23-099"
+citation: "Colorado SB 23-099 (2023A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Cathy Kipp", "Lisa Frizell", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dac9ff5c-b36e-45df-9814-ec76a5186d23"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-099"
+source_hash: "bfd4be9111028b93e50df6d870bdad2aaf75c8f3faf150d7e9344b35f8ac8876"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
+---
+
+# Colorado SB 23-099 (2023A) — Special Education Funding
+
+The act increases the required annual appropriation to the department of education from the state education fund or the general fund by an additional $40,203,671 for children who have one or more disabilities and who receive special education services from a school district, board of cooperative services, a charter school network, a charter school collaborative, or the state charter school institute that is providing educational services to exceptional children.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_sb099_h_app_003.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (03/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_099_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_099_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (01/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_099_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (03/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_099_s_app_01.pdf)
+6. **Reengrossed (04/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_099_ren.pdf)
+7. **Rerevised (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_099_rer.pdf)
+8. **Revised (04/19/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_099_rev.pdf)
+9. **Signed Act (05/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_099_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **57–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
+- Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
+- Lisa Frizell — primary (person)
+- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
+- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
+- **2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
+- **2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dac9ff5c-b36e-45df-9814-ec76a5186d23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+