---
type: "Bill"
title: "Jury Appreciation Day"
description: "The act establishes an annual jury appreciation day on September 5 of each year. The total number of legal holidays in a state fiscal year available to an employee of a state agency is not changed by adding annual jury appreciation day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-282"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-282 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Julie Gonzales", "Matt Soper", "Mike Weissman"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-24T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8de48df3-1058-4385-88b8-22d6a9490d87"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-282"
source_hash: "3aa6d3a5819e80df6b5d4390c0e6ec49dce43222e78c2de4768c3712f7223d28"
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 23-282 (2023A) — Jury Appreciation Day

The act establishes an annual jury appreciation day on September 5 of each year. The total number of legal holidays in a state fiscal year available to an employee of a state agency is not changed by adding annual jury appreciation day.

## 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_sb282_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_282_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_282_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_282_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_282_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (05/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_282_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (05/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_282_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_282_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8de48df3-1058-4385-88b8-22d6a9490d87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).