---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Penalty Cruelty Police And Service Animals"
description: "The act increases monetary penalties for cruelty and aggravated cruelty to service animals, certified police working dogs, and police working horses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1286"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1286 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Joann Ginal", "Monica Duran", "Ryan Armagost"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8cb74c07-9759-4022-aea8-3cbf3ae966d3"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1286"
source_hash: "fee89b9dccdf43022b46cca337be31a557a144817863dbd81769e579948bd5ca"
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 23-1286 (2023A) — Increase Penalty Cruelty Police And Service Animals

The act increases monetary penalties for cruelty and aggravated cruelty to service animals, certified police working dogs, and police working horses.

## 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_hb1286_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1286_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1286_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1286_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1286_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1286_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1286_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1286_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1286_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **61–3** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Monica Duran — primary (person)
- Ryan Armagost — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8cb74c07-9759-4022-aea8-3cbf3ae966d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).