republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1246.md

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Bill	Support In-demand Career Workforce	The act directs the state board of community colleges and occupational education (board) to administer the in-demand short-term credentials program (program) to support the expansion of the number of available and qualified professionals who are able to meet Colorado's in-demand workforce needs. Under the program, the board is required to allocate funds to community and technical colleges, area technical colleges, local district colleges, and Colorado Mesa university to provide assistance to students for eligible expenses that support their enrollment in eligible programs. If unexpended resources exist, the funds must be used to pay for a student's housing, transportation, child or dependent care, or food expenses. The act requires the Colorado commission on higher education to submit a report regarding the program to the house of representatives and senate education committees during its annual "SMART Act" hearing.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1246	Colorado HB 23-1246 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Janet Buckner Julie McCluskie Perry Will Rose Pugliese	10	18	5	2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/74eacc92-d364-42a0-8276-6b4406738c72	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1246	ebb57501b30b116991b7fb06f1d0eb9d286e1705d5d9fc899d6befc1417ad131	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1246 (2023A) — Support In-demand Career Workforce

The act directs the state board of community colleges and occupational education (board) to administer the in-demand short-term credentials program (program) to support the expansion of the number of available and qualified professionals who are able to meet Colorado's in-demand workforce needs. Under the program, the board is required to allocate funds to community and technical colleges, area technical colleges, local district colleges, and Colorado Mesa university to provide assistance to students for eligible expenses that support their enrollment in eligible programs. If unexpended resources exist, the funds must be used to pay for a student's housing, transportation, child or dependent care, or food expenses. The act requires the Colorado commission on higher education to submit a report regarding the program to the house of representatives and senate education committees during its annual "SMART Act" hearing.

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 (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/16/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 56–7 (pass) · lower
• AMEND — 11–21 (fail) · upper
• BILL — 27–5 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 58–5 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 60–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)
• Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education 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
• 2023-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74eacc92-d364-42a0-8276-6b4406738c72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).