republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1311.md

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Bill	Identical Temporary TABOR Refund	If the state exceeds its fiscal year spending limit, it is required to refund the excess state revenues (TABOR refund). The act changes the way the state will distribute a TABOR refund for the 2022-23 state fiscal year. Currently, there are 3 different methods to effectuate a TABOR refund:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1311	Colorado HB 23-1311 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Chris Hansen Chris deGruy Kennedy Mike Weissman Nick Hinrichsen	8	12	7	2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/17b43832-9b70-48d0-90cd-667c7bcfb921	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1311	83466eca2e500ba14e0f561cd6ee56e2dd060ffc179455bbf66376908b871d14	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1311 (2023A) — Identical Temporary TABOR Refund

If the state exceeds its fiscal year spending limit, it is required to refund the excess state revenues (TABOR refund). The act changes the way the state will distribute a TABOR refund for the 2022-23 state fiscal year. Currently, there are 3 different methods to effectuate a TABOR refund:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• COW * — 12–23 (fail) · upper
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• COW * — 12–23 (fail) · upper
• COW * — 12–23 (fail) · upper
• COW * — 12–23 (fail) · upper
• COW * — 12–23 (fail) · upper
• BILL — 44–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Chris deGruy Kennedy — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-24T06:00:00+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
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17b43832-9b70-48d0-90cd-667c7bcfb921. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).