---
type: "Bill"
title: "Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program"
description: "The act creates the statewide welcome, reception, and integration grant program (grant program) in the department of labor and employment (department) to provide grants to community-based organizations that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate navigation of services and programs to migrants who are within one year of arrival in the United States. A grant may be used for:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1280"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1280 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Velasco", "Lisa Cutter", "Lorena García", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0cb5685c-edd2-4819-aac6-b57bc5323886"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1280"
source_hash: "618d08a25965042c76448c2ff8b4351f29ae048f1d5468c1f31d0053fe605850"
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 24-1280 (2024A) — Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program

The act creates the statewide welcome, reception, and integration grant program (grant program) in the department of labor and employment (department) to provide grants to community-based organizations that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate navigation of services and programs to migrants who are within one year of arrival in the United States. A grant may be used for:

## 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_hb1280_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/20/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/29/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_h_bus_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_h_bus_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1280_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1280_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **21–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **58–3** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **41–20** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **44–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
- Lorena García — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-29T06:00:00+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
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/07/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0cb5685c-edd2-4819-aac6-b57bc5323886`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).