---
type: "Bill"
title: "Management of Certain Public Safety Emergencies"
description: "The act defines \"reimbursement\" for purposes of reimbursing the expenditure of money from state emergency reserve as a repayment of expenditures for which the state previously designated emergency money and specifies that federal cost share provided through a federal emergency management agency public assistant grant is not reimbursement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1155"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1155 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Velasco", "Lisa Cutter"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-30T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71505a98-eea1-4ce3-8035-e417e1ea5d07"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1155"
source_hash: "b00a78b5ba4046c1ad44907c1b28d361f5c56270e729dfbc0754463babd3aab8"
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 24-1155 (2024A) — Management of Certain Public Safety Emergencies

The act defines "reimbursement" for purposes of reimbursing the expenditure of money from state emergency reserve as a repayment of expenditures for which the state previously designated emergency money and specifies that federal cost share provided through a federal emergency management agency public assistant grant is not reimbursement.

## 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_hb1155_s_agr_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/14/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1155_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/27/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1155_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/30/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1155_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1155_s_agr_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1155_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1155_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1155_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1155_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **56–7** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **59–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **54–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71505a98-eea1-4ce3-8035-e417e1ea5d07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).