republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-235.md

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Bill	Department Of Law Funds For Unanticipated State Legal Needs	The act permits the department of law to use money appropriated to the department for litigation management to address unanticipated state legal needs. The department is prohibited from using that money for employee salary increases, promotions, reclassifications, or bonuses, or to offset personal services deficits in the department.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-235	Colorado SB 23-235 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Rachel Zenzinger Rod Bockenfeld Shannon Bird	8	13	2	2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/04dce19a-88c4-4878-984b-22f98d0a89bd	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-235	484cf2a2ea1c3f4a952bb343cb1d0e7b30debb5c36a273c13a1b4d300285874c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-235 (2023A) — Department Of Law Funds For Unanticipated State Legal Needs

The act permits the department of law to use money appropriated to the department for litigation management to address unanticipated state legal needs. The department is prohibited from using that money for employee salary increases, promotions, reclassifications, or bonuses, or to offset personal services deficits in the department.

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. Reengrossed (03/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 50–12 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
• Rod Bockenfeld — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+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 - No Amendments
• 2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - 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/04dce19a-88c4-4878-984b-22f98d0a89bd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).