---
type: "Bill"
title: "Non-tenured Track Faculty"
description: "The act extends the maximum length of an employment contract between a state system of higher education, or a campus of a state institution of higher education, and an individual who has a non-tenure-track classroom teaching or librarian appointment from 3 years to 5 years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-048"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-048 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eliza Hamrick", "Jeff Bridges", "Judy Amabile", "Mark Baisley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30a62000-4116-4212-98da-f95e747932ff"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-048"
source_hash: "2e1b9cae532ae016f4b732ae95a9ecc40dd1be6719a0f9566d07eb31aa0e41bb"
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 23-048 (2023A) — Non-tenured Track Faculty

The act extends the maximum length of an employment contract between a state system of higher education, or a campus of a state institution of higher education, and an individual who has a non-tenure-track classroom teaching or librarian appointment from 3 years to 5 years.

## 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_sb048_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_048_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/13/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_048_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/12/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_048_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_048_h_ed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_048_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (02/28/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_048_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (02/27/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_048_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (03/23/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_048_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **62–2** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eliza Hamrick — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Mark Baisley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2023-02-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30a62000-4116-4212-98da-f95e747932ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).