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Bill	Gun Violence Victims' Access To Judicial System	Current law limits product liability actions against manufacturers of firearms and ammunition to situations in which there was a defect in the design or manufacture of a firearm or ammunition. The act repeals that limitation.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-168	Colorado SB 23-168 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Chris Kolker Javier Mabrey Jennifer Parenti Sonya Jaquez Lewis	9	21	15	2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00	2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5d5e0259-34ca-4013-8be4-1a29247dc920	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-168	d626d24fed0becfd397f7f36bd5226262e1b2212a7a08abdaf8abbe3d20b1548	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-168 (2023A) — Gun Violence Victims' Access To Judicial System

Current law limits product liability actions against manufacturers of firearms and ammunition to situations in which there was a defect in the design or manufacture of a firearm or ammunition. The act repeals that limitation.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 21–14 (pass) · upper
• COW * — 22–13 (pass) · upper
• COW * — 13–22 (fail) · upper
• REPASS — 39–22 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT — 51–10 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 13–22 (fail) · upper
• NOT CONCUR APPT CC — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BYD SCP — 51–6 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 21–14 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 45–18 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 14–21 (fail) · upper
• REREFER — 19–38 (fail) · lower
• PERM — 43–19 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 40–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Kolker — primary (person)
• Javier Mabrey — primary (person)
• Jennifer Parenti — primary (person)
• Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Corrected Report Amending Rerevised Bill
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d5e0259-34ca-4013-8be4-1a29247dc920. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).