---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency And Continued Placement With Relative Or Kin"
description: "The act clarifies the procedures for emergency and nonemergency continuing placement of a child or youth that a county department of human or social services (county department) or a local law enforcement agency (law enforcement) with custody of the child or youth shall follow before making the emergency or nonemergency continuing placement of a child or youth with a relative or kin."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1043"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1043 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janice Rich", "Joann Ginal", "Mandy Lindsay", "Rose Pugliese"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ec66eda-1989-43fd-a0b3-aada35a5b9ff"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1043"
source_hash: "752064b1cbbf447d0e10009877f03dbf174b568358dcf5c723d46182e88deeac"
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 HB 23-1043 (2023A) — Emergency And Continued Placement With Relative Or Kin

The act clarifies the procedures for emergency and nonemergency continuing placement of a child or youth that a county department of human or social services (county department) or a local law enforcement agency (law enforcement) with custody of the child or youth shall follow before making the emergency or nonemergency continuing placement of a child or youth with a relative or kin.

## 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_hb1043_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/09/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_h_pbh_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (02/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_s_hhs_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (01/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (02/28/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1043_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (03/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1043_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **60–3** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **63–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **59–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Janice Rich — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)
- Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2023-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ec66eda-1989-43fd-a0b3-aada35a5b9ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).