republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-161.md

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Bill	Financing To Purchase Firefighting Aircraft	The act directs the state treasurer to transfer $26 million from the general fund to the Colorado firefighting air corps fund for use by the division of fire prevention and control to purchase a fire hawk helicopter configured for wildfire and other public safety response needs.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-161	Colorado SB 23-161 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Julie McCluskie Mike Lynch Perry Will Steve Fenberg	10	14	2	2023-02-15T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/daf01641-88f8-4947-8305-f26cb2bd47fa	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-161	a6ba1c55e3198444cf9a6a2b9a66ad961df12e45e716221fa90bd930a5e0f0bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-161 (2023A) — Financing To Purchase Firefighting Aircraft

The act directs the state treasurer to transfer $26 million from the general fund to the Colorado firefighting air corps fund for use by the division of fire prevention and control to purchase a fire hawk helicopter configured for wildfire and other public safety response needs.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 59–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
• Mike Lynch — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)
• Steve Fenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+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
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/daf01641-88f8-4947-8305-f26cb2bd47fa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).