---
type: "Bill"
title: "Film Incentive Tax Credit"
description: "Current law provides a film production incentive that allows a production company a performance-based cash rebate equal to 20%, or in the discretion of the director of the office of economic development a higher amount, of qualified Colorado expenditures for films, television, series, commercials, and video games produced in the state. The act:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1309"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1309 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leslie Herod", "Marc Snyder", "Sonya Jaquez Lewis"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1f3c86c-1354-4550-91e5-c17fe73cc181"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1309"
source_hash: "d1f02e1f9364c19d8f470963a5d979aa950760e53720aac8a8fb4f4391a9a7f0"
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 23-1309 (2023A) — Film Incentive Tax Credit

Current law provides a film production incentive that allows a production company a performance-based cash rebate equal to 20%, or in the discretion of the director of the office of economic development a higher amount, of qualified Colorado expenditures for films, television, series, commercials, and video games produced in the state. The act:

## 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_hb1309_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/25/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/28/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_h_fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_h_fin_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_s_app_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (05/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1309_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1309_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **51–12** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **27–6** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **45–18** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **49–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Marc Snyder — primary (person)
- Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-05T06:00:00+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
- **2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - 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/d1f3c86c-1354-4550-91e5-c17fe73cc181`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).