---
type: "Bill"
title: "Staffing Agency CAPS Checks"
description: "Under current law, when an employer is going to hire a person to work in a position in which the person has contact with at-risk adults, the employer must perform a check of the system that contains substantiated claims of mistreatment against an at-risk adult (CAPS check). The bill requires a staffing agency that provides employees who will have contact with at-risk adults to perform a CAPS check and to provide the results to the employer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-040"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-040 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary Young", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eaa03e52-8874-4c77-8006-89b14a750837"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-040"
source_hash: "d5adfbf37dbcc9da0eb23acbc515626d99a5aaf2879eb657d119d249003352ce"
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 23-040 (2023A) — Staffing Agency CAPS Checks

Under current law, when an employer is going to hire a person to work in a position in which the person has contact with at-risk adults, the employer must perform a check of the system that contains substantiated claims of mistreatment against an at-risk adult (CAPS check). The bill requires a staffing agency that provides employees who will have contact with at-risk adults to perform a CAPS check and to provide the results to the employer.

## 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_sb040_h_pbh_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_040_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (02/28/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_040_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/12/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_040_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_040_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_040_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (02/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_040_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (02/23/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_040_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (03/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_040_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mary Young — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-02-24T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to 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/eaa03e52-8874-4c77-8006-89b14a750837`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).