republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-053.md

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Bill	Restrict Governmental Nondisclosure Agreements	The act prohibits the state, counties, cities and counties, municipalities, school districts, and any of their departments, institutions, or agencies (public employers) from making it a condition of employment that an applicant for employment or current or past employee (employee) executes a contract or other form of agreement that prohibits, prevents, or otherwise restricts the employee from disclosing factual circumstances concerning the employee's employment with the public employer (nondisclosure agreement) unless the nondisclosure agreement is necessary to prevent disclosure of:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-053	Colorado SB 23-053 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Gabe Evans Robert Rodriguez Steven Woodrow	10	22	6	2023-01-17T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d843a928-2c6b-41aa-bb1c-ee3ec35eb952	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-053	3e696816f388ea7edfc593613871535d09f6815842d1f6b16cf773033ef503fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-053 (2023A) — Restrict Governmental Nondisclosure Agreements

The act prohibits the state, counties, cities and counties, municipalities, school districts, and any of their departments, institutions, or agencies (public employers) from making it a condition of employment that an applicant for employment or current or past employee (employee) executes a contract or other form of agreement that prohibits, prevents, or otherwise restricts the employee from disclosing factual circumstances concerning the employee's employment with the public employer (nondisclosure agreement) unless the nondisclosure agreement is necessary to prevent disclosure of:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• PERM — 57–6 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Gabe Evans — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Steven Woodrow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 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 State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction
• 2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/21/2023 - No Amendments
• 2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/17/2023 - No Amendments
• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/10/2023 - No Amendments
• 2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/03/2023 - No Amendments
• 2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2023-01-17T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d843a928-2c6b-41aa-bb1c-ee3ec35eb952. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).