republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1306.md

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Bill	Public Use of Elected Officials' Social Media	The act allows a state elected official or local elected official to restrict or bar an individual from using the private social media of the elected official. Private social media is social media that is not supported by government resources and is not required by law to be created or maintained by an elected official. An elected official may restrict or bar an individual from using the private social media of the elected official for any reason, including for bullying, harassment, or intimidation, in the elected official's discretion.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1306	Colorado HB 23-1306 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner James Coleman Leslie Herod Matt Soper	9	13	2	2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/12f7ef04-374f-4ca5-95c6-299e7092975e	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1306	5a1a0c40b3128da1d55a655a27f113a8b9fb3baa43ccb19a083e00d50304852f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1306 (2023A) — Public Use of Elected Officials' Social Media

The act allows a state elected official or local elected official to restrict or bar an individual from using the private social media of the elected official. Private social media is social media that is not supported by government resources and is not required by law to be created or maintained by an elected official. An elected official may restrict or bar an individual from using the private social media of the elected official for any reason, including for bullying, harassment, or intimidation, in the elected official's discretion.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 43–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/12f7ef04-374f-4ca5-95c6-299e7092975e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).