republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1081.md

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Bill	Employee Ownership Tax Credit Expansion	Under the law, a qualified business is allowed a tax credit in the amount of 50% of the costs to convert the qualified business to a form of employee ownership. The tax credit has been capped at $25,000 for converting a qualified business to a worker-owned cooperative or employee ownership trust and $100,000 for converting a qualified business to an employee stock ownership plan.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1081	Colorado HB 23-1081 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Nick Hinrichsen Rick Taggart William Lindstedt	9	15	2	2023-01-19T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2ddae27a-88dc-4231-83e5-be38a292d823	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1081	0fdd2dbd1d76c6be9608f6e1ae086107305b33de5eca6331d1cb7d019e333770	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1081 (2023A) — Employee Ownership Tax Credit Expansion

Under the law, a qualified business is allowed a tax credit in the amount of 50% of the costs to convert the qualified business to a form of employee ownership. The tax credit has been capped at $25,000 for converting a qualified business to a worker-owned cooperative or employee ownership trust and $100,000 for converting a qualified business to an employee stock ownership 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 (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 55–4 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 28–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
• Rick Taggart — primary (person)
• William Lindstedt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-01-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ddae27a-88dc-4231-83e5-be38a292d823. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).