republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1237.md

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Bill	Inclusive Language Emergency Situations	The act requires the university of Colorado's natural hazards center to conduct a study by July 1, 2024, to determine what municipalities, sheriff's offices, counties, fire districts, and local 911 agencies need to be able to provide emergency alerts in minority languages, and what local 911 agencies need in order to provide live interpretation during a 911 call. The study must:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1237	Colorado HB 23-1237 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Elizabeth Velasco Perry Will Tony Exum	11	17	4	2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/89ca1641-4d2d-435e-8629-b39f44e10f42	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1237	52043792d2e873450a736055a31afc4ccaedfbd9344cd98a35c8efad355a6f51	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1237 (2023A) — Inclusive Language Emergency Situations

The act requires the university of Colorado's natural hazards center to conduct a study by July 1, 2024, to determine what municipalities, sheriff's offices, counties, fire districts, and local 911 agencies need to be able to provide emergency alerts in minority languages, and what local 911 agencies need in order to provide live interpretation during a 911 call. The study must:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2023-04-13 14:47:08 — 59–5 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 58–4 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 59–3 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)
• Tony Exum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/89ca1641-4d2d-435e-8629-b39f44e10f42. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).