republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-095.md

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Bill	Unlawfully Aiming Laser Device At Aircraft	The act creates the offense of unlawfully aiming a laser device at an aircraft (offense), which is a class 6 felony. A person commits the offense when the person knowingly points, focuses, or aims a laser device at an aircraft while the aircraft is occupied and the incident is reported to law enforcement by the pilot or crew member of the impacted aircraft.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-095	Colorado SB 23-095 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Joann Ginal Lindsey Daugherty Matt Soper	8	15	4	2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00	2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3c694810-0b7c-4c8e-8609-61aa7e3973c1	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-095	2955a29dedb92c7ea65876c76cd15ab1dd16a666cadd7b666c8322b83f63d0ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-095 (2023A) — Unlawfully Aiming Laser Device At Aircraft

The act creates the offense of unlawfully aiming a laser device at an aircraft (offense), which is a class 6 felony. A person commits the offense when the person knowingly points, focuses, or aims a laser device at an aircraft while the aircraft is occupied and the incident is reported to law enforcement by the pilot or crew member of the impacted aircraft.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 59–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2023-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c694810-0b7c-4c8e-8609-61aa7e3973c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).