republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-302.md

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Bill	Colorado Veterans' Service-to-career Program	Current law includes a Colorado veterans' service-to-career program (program), which authorizes nonprofit agencies to partner with work force centers selected by the department of labor and employment to provide veterans and other eligible participants with skills training, internships, work placements, mentorship opportunities, career and professional counseling, and support services. The program requires that if a program participant is eligible for federal funding that federal funding must be used first. The act repeals that requirement. The act requires work force center staff to vet potential program participants and leverage additional funding sources to deliver comprehensive services. Obsolete language related to the program is repealed. The act extends the repeal date for the program to July 1, 2024.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-302	Colorado SB 23-302 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Anthony Hartsook Byron Pelton David Ortiz Nick Hinrichsen	10	15	4	2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/da3cfef4-bce2-4d83-b0b0-bc88ad8259c9	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-302	4afb9e4efcf6b7f57641ce667a8e432f39921d2cb34a4cf6f9c0b6de835a5351	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-302 (2023A) — Colorado Veterans' Service-to-career Program

Current law includes a Colorado veterans' service-to-career program (program), which authorizes nonprofit agencies to partner with work force centers selected by the department of labor and employment to provide veterans and other eligible participants with skills training, internships, work placements, mentorship opportunities, career and professional counseling, and support services. The program requires that if a program participant is eligible for federal funding that federal funding must be used first. The act repeals that requirement. The act requires work force center staff to vet potential program participants and leverage additional funding sources to deliver comprehensive services. Obsolete language related to the program is repealed. The act extends the repeal date for the program to July 1, 2024.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/02/2023) (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

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 61–1 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Anthony Hartsook — primary (person)
• Byron Pelton — primary (person)
• David Ortiz — primary (person)
• Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+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
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da3cfef4-bce2-4d83-b0b0-bc88ad8259c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).