---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mandatory School Resource Officer Training"
description: "Beginning on or before August 1, 2024, the act requires the department of law to annually convene a training for school resource officers and school officials to discuss best practices in responding to safe2tell reports, including defining roles, communication about a report, outcome reporting, and training resources to improve school resource officers' support of students and school staff. Safe2tell may conduct a survey to collect data and discussions regarding its operations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-070"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-070 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Chris Kolker", "Mary Young", "Ryan Armagost"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-27T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/488ddd0f-0382-459d-8268-03af9f1b896b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-070"
source_hash: "d3157a587ceba45e19be5d5be5231081a9fd7e5408928424ea079d5f8c20c748"
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 23-070 (2023A) — Mandatory School Resource Officer Training

Beginning on or before August 1, 2024, the act requires the department of law to annually convene a training for school resource officers and school officials to discuss best practices in responding to safe2tell reports, including defining roles, communication about a report, outcome reporting, and training resources to improve school resource officers' support of students and school staff. Safe2tell may conduct a survey to collect data and discussions regarding its operations.

## 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_sb070_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_070_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_070_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/27/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_070_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_070_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_070_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_070_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_070_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/27/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_070_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Chris Kolker — primary (person)
- Mary Young — primary (person)
- Ryan Armagost — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2023-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-27T07:00:00+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/488ddd0f-0382-459d-8268-03af9f1b896b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).