---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kinship Foster Care Homes"
description: "The act states that a court shall not delay permanency planning for a child or youth for purposes of maintaining financial support for a kinship foster care home or a non-certified kinship foster care home, unless there are exceptional circumstances as approved by the court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-008"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-008 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Mary Young", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rose Pugliese"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6025811-6ea0-4145-a235-9371258ae3da"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-008"
source_hash: "ea4357f6b16d697655579d59b94d1279fb36010fea7579799853e1af93e211b0"
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 24-008 (2024A) — Kinship Foster Care Homes

The act states that a court shall not delay permanency planning for a child or youth for purposes of maintaining financial support for a kinship foster care home or a non-certified kinship foster care home, unless there are exceptional circumstances as approved by the court.

## 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_sb008_h_app_005.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (02/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_s_hhs_fin_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (03/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_s_hhs_fin_app_01.pdf)
8. **PA4 (04/11/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_h_hhs_01.pdf)
9. **PA5 (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_h_hhs_app_01.pdf)
10. **Reengrossed (03/20/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_ren.pdf)
11. **Rerevised (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_rer.pdf)
12. **Revised (05/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_008_rev.pdf)
13. **Signed Act (05/30/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_008_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Mary Young — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+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/c6025811-6ea0-4145-a235-9371258ae3da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).