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Bill	Protecting Opportunities And Workers' Rights Act	For purposes of addressing discriminatory or unfair employment practices pursuant to Colorado's anti-discrimination laws, the act enacts the "Protecting Opportunities and Workers' Rights (POWR) Act", which:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-172	Colorado SB 23-172 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Jennifer Bacon Julie Gonzales Mike Weissman	11	17	5	2023-02-27T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ed8b483c-f3b3-484f-a8ee-d270121c23bd	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-172	3faeeb4d3da638ee1df4947bb9793416a9cc714bec361213eb7f4635a86a9a37	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-172 (2023A) — Protecting Opportunities And Workers' Rights Act

For purposes of addressing discriminatory or unfair employment practices pursuant to Colorado's anti-discrimination laws, the act enacts the "Protecting Opportunities and Workers' Rights (POWR) Act", which:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 43–22 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• AMEND — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed8b483c-f3b3-484f-a8ee-d270121c23bd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).