republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1462.md

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Bill	Third-Party Audit Department of Corrections	The act requires the state auditor to engage, by October 1, 2024, a third party to conduct an evaluation of the department of corrections' (department) budget practices. The third party is required to provide an update to the joint budget committee and the legislative audit committee by March 1, 2025 and to release a final report to the department, joint budget committee, and legislative audit committee by June 30, 2025. The evaluation must review the department's personnel-related costs, contract staff spending, operational costs driven by caseload, user fees levied, and the cash funds associated with the department.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1462	Colorado HB 24-1462 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Emily Sirota Jeff Bridges Rachel Zenzinger Shannon Bird	8	15	5	2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00	2024-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b0814ce9-d45f-4080-9f1e-d2691747cdc5	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1462	1c5ffbb9518c91f3f994362fe7c56895aa04fa9212c3d3ba1bf079c1133fb470	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1462 (2024A) — Third-Party Audit Department of Corrections

The act requires the state auditor to engage, by October 1, 2024, a third party to conduct an evaluation of the department of corrections' (department) budget practices. The third party is required to provide an update to the joint budget committee and the legislative audit committee by March 1, 2025 and to release a final report to the department, joint budget committee, and legislative audit committee by June 30, 2025. The evaluation must review the department's personnel-related costs, contract staff spending, operational costs driven by caseload, user fees levied, and the cash funds associated with the department.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/02/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/07/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/06/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• RECEDE — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• NOT CNCR — 63–0 (pass) · lower

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.

• 2024-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Adherence - Result was to Recede
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Adhere
• 2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0814ce9-d45f-4080-9f1e-d2691747cdc5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).