republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-227.md

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Bill	State Agency Attorney Hourly Rate	The act creates a mechanism to set the hourly rate for attorney time for attorneys who contract with the office of alternate defense counsel, the office of the child's representative, or the office of the respondent parents' counsel. The rate for fiscal year 2023-24 is $100 per hour. The hourly rate must be increased annually by no more than $5 each year until it is at least 75% of the rate set in the federal "Criminal Justice Act Revision of 1986" for indigent representation in federal court. The hourly rate may be adjusted in subsequent fiscal years to maintain the hourly rate at or above 75% of the rate set in the federal "Criminal Justice Act Revision of 1986".	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-227	Colorado SB 23-227 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Emily Sirota Rachel Zenzinger Shannon Bird	9	13	2	2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6f331d90-9101-4089-a212-0fe6b78e6fef	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-227	94472494deec309f6059780d2582c40ebb193b44e43c8191522a47fed219fa1b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-227 (2023A) — State Agency Attorney Hourly Rate

The act creates a mechanism to set the hourly rate for attorney time for attorneys who contract with the office of alternate defense counsel, the office of the child's representative, or the office of the respondent parents' counsel. The rate for fiscal year 2023-24 is $100 per hour. The hourly rate must be increased annually by no more than $5 each year until it is at least 75% of the rate set in the federal "Criminal Justice Act Revision of 1986" for indigent representation in federal court. The hourly rate may be adjusted in subsequent fiscal years to maintain the hourly rate at or above 75% of the rate set in the federal "Criminal Justice Act Revision of 1986".

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 59–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f331d90-9101-4089-a212-0fe6b78e6fef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).