republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-241.md

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Bill	Creation Of Office Of School Safety	The act creates the office of school safety (office) within the office of the executive director in the department of public safety. The office oversees the school safety resource center (center), which assists schools in preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and crisis situations by offering training and other supportive services. Among other duties, the center is responsible for providing information and resources related to school safety, school emergency response planning and training, and interoperable communications to the division of fire prevention and control in the department of public safety for distribution to school districts and schools. The act clarifies that this responsibility does not permit the provision of firearms to schools districts or schools.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-241	Colorado SB 23-241 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Jeff Bridges Rod Bockenfeld Shannon Bird	9	16	8	2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/67111d44-233e-40ee-9fae-2e99b590b661	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-241	e29f65c3b7ae81c806cccb1d5e050d8df5c2724cb75ebbb7774715b915b8f011	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-241 (2023A) — Creation Of Office Of School Safety

The act creates the office of school safety (office) within the office of the executive director in the department of public safety. The office oversees the school safety resource center (center), which assists schools in preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and crisis situations by offering training and other supportive services. Among other duties, the center is responsible for providing information and resources related to school safety, school emergency response planning and training, and interoperable communications to the division of fire prevention and control in the department of public safety for distribution to school districts and schools. The act clarifies that this responsibility does not permit the provision of firearms to schools districts or schools.

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 (04/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 59–4 (pass) · lower
• NOT CONCUR APPT CC — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CCR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT — 60–3 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 60–3 (pass) · lower
• BYD SCP — 56–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Rod Bockenfeld — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 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 with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 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 Amended 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 - Floor
• 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/67111d44-233e-40ee-9fae-2e99b590b661. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).