---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment Services Funded By Wagner-Peyser Act"
description: "The act requires a county that seeks to use county department employees (employees) to deliver employment services that are funded through the federal \"Wagner-Peyser Act\" to create a merit system for the selection, retention, and promotion of these employees. The act requires each county's merit system to conform to specific standards. If a county already has a system in place, the county is required to update the system to comply with the standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-233"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-233 (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/e0b490dc-6b61-42a8-a984-284f28c5281b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-233"
source_hash: "532526a5345d3a316dec8646c6f1da41e330dbaa3cec003989965969f3743bdd"
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 23-233 (2023A) — Employment Services Funded By Wagner-Peyser Act

The act requires a county that seeks to use county department employees (employees) to deliver employment services that are funded through the federal "Wagner-Peyser Act" to create a merit system for the selection, retention, and promotion of these employees. The act requires each county's merit system to conform to specific standards. If a county already has a system in place, the county is required to update the system to comply with the standards.

## 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_sb233_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/29/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_233_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/11/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_233_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_233_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_233_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_233_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_233_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_233_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–17** (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`
- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+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/e0b490dc-6b61-42a8-a984-284f28c5281b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).