republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-255.md

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Bill	Wolf Depredation Compensation Fund	The act creates the wolf depredation compensation fund (fund) to compensate landowners and agricultural producers for wolf depredation of livestock and working animals. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the state treasurer is directed to transfer $175,000 from the general fund to the fund, and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the state treasurer is directed to transfer $350,000 from the general fund to the fund. At the end of the 2023-24 and 2024-25 state fiscal years, any unencumbered balance in the fund that exceeds $100,000 is used to implement the gray wolf restoration and management plan (plan). At the end of subsequent state fiscal years, any unencumbered balance in the fund that exceeds 120% of the amount spent from the fund in the previous state fiscal year is used to implement the plan.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-255	Colorado SB 23-255 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Dylan Roberts Julie McCluskie Marc Catlin Perry Will	11	17	4	2023-03-27T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b422d216-d3f2-4de9-860c-6d78b5fbde36	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-255	feb63b6d7d91cc00a00644013c8ea45d0bb71d3c0b05d07ea2e42ff71bd2a8a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-255 (2023A) — Wolf Depredation Compensation Fund

The act creates the wolf depredation compensation fund (fund) to compensate landowners and agricultural producers for wolf depredation of livestock and working animals. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the state treasurer is directed to transfer $175,000 from the general fund to the fund, and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the state treasurer is directed to transfer $350,000 from the general fund to the fund. At the end of the 2023-24 and 2024-25 state fiscal years, any unencumbered balance in the fund that exceeds $100,000 is used to implement the gray wolf restoration and management plan (plan). At the end of subsequent state fiscal years, any unencumbered balance in the fund that exceeds 120% of the amount spent from the fund in the previous state fiscal year is used to implement the plan.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/31/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources introduction
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b422d216-d3f2-4de9-860c-6d78b5fbde36. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).