republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-231.md

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Bill	Amend Fund To Allow Payment Overdue Wage Claims	Starting April 1, 2024, the act allows the division of labor standards and statistics (division) in the department of labor and employment (department) to use money in the wage theft enforcement fund (fund) to pay employees who are owed money from their employers due to obligations and liabilities related to the payment of wages or other compensation. The division may pay an employee if an employer fails to fulfill an order by the division to pay the employee that results from a wage claim or an investigation:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-231	Colorado SB 23-231 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Emily Sirota Jeff Bridges Rachel Zenzinger Rod Bockenfeld	8	13	2	2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/84274a71-c82d-48da-a517-d7f6f539fa38	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-231	2354500d68d43c9ed656f5c1ff689fecb8f1841e67eab7ec5017294a4b4d194f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-231 (2023A) — Amend Fund To Allow Payment Overdue Wage Claims

Starting April 1, 2024, the act allows the division of labor standards and statistics (division) in the department of labor and employment (department) to use money in the wage theft enforcement fund (fund) to pay employees who are owed money from their employers due to obligations and liabilities related to the payment of wages or other compensation. The division may pay an employee if an employer fails to fulfill an order by the division to pay the employee that results from a wage claim or an investigation:

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 (04/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 47–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
• Rod Bockenfeld — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+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
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - 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 - No Amendments
• 2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 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/84274a71-c82d-48da-a517-d7f6f539fa38. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).