republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-296.md

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Bill	Prevent Harassment And Discrimination In Schools	The act defines "harassment or discrimination" as unwelcome physical or verbal conduct or any written, pictorial, or visual communication by a student or employee that is directed at a student or group of students because of that student's or group's membership in, or perceived membership in, a protected class. The conduct or communication need not be severe or pervasive under specified circumstances. Whether conduct constitutes harassment or discrimination is judged under the totality of the circumstances.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-296	Colorado SB 23-296 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Janice Marchman Jennifer Bacon Leslie Herod	10	16	6	2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d802fbf3-a6ba-4c63-93fa-727745dc4ba9	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-296	a0a2350f07361e5577a1a1766cca5fbf8e585544eb7aa9fab39c3206dd2d2f8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-296 (2023A) — Prevent Harassment And Discrimination In Schools

The act defines "harassment or discrimination" as unwelcome physical or verbal conduct or any written, pictorial, or visual communication by a student or employee that is directed at a student or group of students because of that student's or group's membership in, or perceived membership in, a protected class. The conduct or communication need not be severe or pervasive under specified circumstances. Whether conduct constitutes harassment or discrimination is judged under the totality of the circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 44–18 (pass) · lower
• PERM — 46–16 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 42–20 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Janice Marchman — primary (person)
• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d802fbf3-a6ba-4c63-93fa-727745dc4ba9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).