---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural Products Inspection Cash Fund Reserve"
description: "Colorado law limits the amount of uncommitted money that may remain in a cash fund at the end of a state fiscal year to 16.5% of the amount spent during the fiscal year. The act exempts the agricultural products inspection cash fund from the 16.5% uncommitted balance limit and instead imposes a limit of 50% of the amount spent from the fund during the fiscal year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1179"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1179 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Nick Hinrichsen", "Tisha Mauro", "Ty Winter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b56728e-1df7-4255-9535-2cf40bfbc9c9"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1179"
source_hash: "7c73c2333014783e8b7320137aac902215b3334a4309e3c0bbf9af044f445815"
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 23-1179 (2023A) — Agricultural Products Inspection Cash Fund Reserve

Colorado law limits the amount of uncommitted money that may remain in a cash fund at the end of a state fiscal year to 16.5% of the amount spent during the fiscal year. The act exempts the agricultural products inspection cash fund from the 16.5% uncommitted balance limit and instead imposes a limit of 50% of the amount spent from the fund during the fiscal year.

## 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_hb1179_s_agr_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1179_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/13/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1179_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1179_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/09/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1179_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/22/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1179_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1179_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/20/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1179_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **55–3** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **31–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
- Tisha Mauro — primary (person)
- Ty Winter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2023-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **2023-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2023-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b56728e-1df7-4255-9535-2cf40bfbc9c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).