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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officers Classified As State Troopers"
+description: "Beginning July 1, 2023, the act classifies a wildlife officer and a parks and recreation officer employed by the division of parks and wildlife (division) in the department of natural resources (department) and hired on or after January 1, 2011, as a state trooper for the purpose of determining the officer's public employees' retirement association service retirement eligibility and benefit."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2023A"
+identifier: "SB 23-163"
+citation: "Colorado SB 23-163 (2023A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Iman Jodeh", "Kyle Mullica", "Mike Lynch", "Perry Will"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-17T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e066ce1d-fe05-441e-b17a-4f0ecbedcbca"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-163"
+source_hash: "a37546d19e93dbb0953aff231e544454459a2f8900a6500a432ccfaa6ba2da2f"
+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 23-163 (2023A) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officers Classified As State Troopers
+
+Beginning July 1, 2023, the act classifies a wildlife officer and a parks and recreation officer employed by the division of parks and wildlife (division) in the department of natural resources (department) and hired on or after January 1, 2011, as a state trooper for the purpose of determining the officer's public employees' retirement association service retirement eligibility and benefit.
+
+## 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_sb163_h_app_002.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (03/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (02/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (03/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_s_fin_01.pdf)
+6. **PA2 (03/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_s_fin_app_01.pdf)
+7. **Reengrossed (04/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_ren.pdf)
+8. **Rerevised (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_rer.pdf)
+9. **Revised (04/19/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_163_rev.pdf)
+10. **Signed Act (06/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_163_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **61–3** (pass) · lower
+- BILL — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
+- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
+- Mike Lynch — primary (person)
+- Perry Will — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06T06:00:00+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
+- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+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 Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `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 - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-17T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e066ce1d-fe05-441e-b17a-4f0ecbedcbca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+