---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Corrections Financial Audit"
description: "Starting no later than January 1, 2024, The act requires the division of criminal justice (division) in the department of public safety (department) to contract with a third party every 5 years to conduct a financial audit of community corrections programs and report findings to the joint budget committee and the division of criminal justice by July 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-242"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-242 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Emily Sirota", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rod Bockenfeld"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/050c1893-9c63-468a-b81a-2e3d24beff80"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-242"
source_hash: "752f0b9abe76003f25729202bcfb2c240f00fe992590d63424a88f5ed50591a4"
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 23-242 (2023A) — Community Corrections Financial Audit

Starting no later than January 1, 2024, The act requires the division of criminal justice (division) in the department of public safety (department) to contract with a third party every 5 years to conduct a financial audit of community corrections programs and report findings to the joint budget committee and the division of criminal justice by July 1, 2025.

## 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_sb242_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/29/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_242_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/12/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_242_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_242_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_242_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_242_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_242_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_242_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **49–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Rod Bockenfeld — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/050c1893-9c63-468a-b81a-2e3d24beff80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).