republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-253.md

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Bill	Standards For Products Represented As Compostable	The act creates standards (standards) for products that are represented, marketed, or advertised in the state as being capable of undergoing decomposition in a controlled composting system as demonstrated in accordance with applicable international standards for compostable products set by ASTM International (compostable).	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-253	Colorado SB 23-253 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Karen McCormick Lisa Cutter Meg Froelich	10	14	2	2023-03-27T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a0cc697f-c7e9-4e9b-bd73-fc80b2c55ba2	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-253	2dd0f9cf18d7393d39fbed1953eb671a43f7047771cfc3ff6a33932ae6cd73f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-253 (2023A) — Standards For Products Represented As Compostable

The act creates standards (standards) for products that are represented, marketed, or advertised in the state as being capable of undergoing decomposition in a controlled composting system as demonstrated in accordance with applicable international standards for compostable products set by ASTM International (compostable).

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 22–9 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 47–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Karen McCormick — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment introduction
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0cc697f-c7e9-4e9b-bd73-fc80b2c55ba2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).