republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-289.md

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Bill	Community First Choice Medicaid Benefit	The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to seek federal authorization through an amendment to the state medical assistance plan to implement the community first choice option.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-289	Colorado SB 23-289 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Emily Sirota Jeff Bridges Rachel Zenzinger Shannon Bird	8	15	2	2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a6303a64-fc4b-4ca9-a151-fb7202fab951	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-289	2a0cc56aca54d1b0f920bed7f8fe8fbef6cf33fef8aee6533a27ca4c29b52ae6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-289 (2023A) — Community First Choice Medicaid Benefit

The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to seek federal authorization through an amendment to the state medical assistance plan to implement the community first choice option.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 55–10 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6303a64-fc4b-4ca9-a151-fb7202fab951. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).