---
type: "Bill"
title: "Additional Uses Paid Sick Leave"
description: "The act allows an employee to use accrued paid sick leave when the employee needs to:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-017"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-017 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Jenny Willford", "Junie Joseph"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bcb33e9-771a-4bf6-9314-814d0a00669a"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-017"
source_hash: "9ad3d93b0ec2a7019a3badf79f75478db98ebf0a2c0b282c65df03ed62cb4b27"
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 23-017 (2023A) — Additional Uses Paid Sick Leave

The act allows an employee to use accrued paid sick leave when the employee needs to:

## 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_sb017_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/28/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_s_blt_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_s_blt_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_h_app_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (03/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/19/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_017_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_017_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **23–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Jenny Willford — primary (person)
- Junie Joseph — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+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 with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
- **2023-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1bcb33e9-771a-4bf6-9314-814d0a00669a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).