republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1263.md

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Bill	Translating Individualized Education Programs	The act permits the multidisciplinary team that creates an individualized education program (IEP) for a child, who may be eligible for special education services, to translate or contract with a translation services provider to translate the IEP draft documents into the dominant language spoken in the home of the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian (parent). Upon request of the child's parent, the multidisciplinary team is required to translate or contract with a translation services provider to translate the final IEP document into the dominant language spoken in the home of the child's parent. The IEP team shall verbally inform the child's parent of the right to request translation services.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1263	Colorado HB 23-1263 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Lorena Garcia Mary Young Rachel Zenzinger	9	16	4	2023-03-26T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6b97feaa-55cc-4975-acc0-d7109321b127	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1263	617e223493e1022553c31bc3dd9dc7e4bf886e161fdf6a869b9362c80abb5c05	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1263 (2023A) — Translating Individualized Education Programs

The act permits the multidisciplinary team that creates an individualized education program (IEP) for a child, who may be eligible for special education services, to translate or contract with a translation services provider to translate the IEP draft documents into the dominant language spoken in the home of the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian (parent). Upon request of the child's parent, the multidisciplinary team is required to translate or contract with a translation services provider to translate the final IEP document into the dominant language spoken in the home of the child's parent. The IEP team shall verbally inform the child's parent of the right to request translation services.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 63–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Lorena Garcia — primary (person)
• Mary Young — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-25T06:00:00+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 President of the Senate
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+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 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b97feaa-55cc-4975-acc0-d7109321b127. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).