---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Affordability Tax Credit"
description: "For income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2024, but before January 1, 2034, the act creates a refundable, means-tested family affordability tax credit (credit) as follows:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1311"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1311 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris deGruy Kennedy", "Faith Winter", "James Coleman", "Jenny Willford"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/454f8c4b-978a-424f-a016-805ebf1fe6e4"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1311"
source_hash: "45847859e8ee53d66a4cd70dad6b30cba4a527c704aab6fd6c04bdb6bdfb8c85"
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 HB 24-1311 (2024A) — Family Affordability Tax Credit

For income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2024, but before January 1, 2034, the act creates a refundable, means-tested family affordability tax credit (credit) as follows:

## 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/2024a_hb1311_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/30/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_h_fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/30/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_h_fin_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_s_fin_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1311_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/31/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1311_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **17–41** (fail) · lower
- REPASS — **42–21** (pass) · lower
- REREFER — **17–40** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **55–8** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **18–44** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **43–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris deGruy Kennedy — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- James Coleman — primary (person)
- Jenny Willford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/454f8c4b-978a-424f-a016-805ebf1fe6e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).