republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1223.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Task Force To Prioritize Grants Target Population"
description: "The act creates a task force (task force) to establish shared goals, objectives, and guidelines for entities to utilize in prioritizing new and existing grant money to achieve maximum impact to reduce youth violence, suicide, and delinquency risk factors. The task force shall identify 3 target communities with the highest rates of youth violence, suicide, and delinquency risk factors. Beginning July 1, 2025, the task force shall create shared goals, objectives, and guidelines for governmental and community-based organizations to prioritize the use of new and existing state grant money, as well as help community-based organizations reduce youth violence, suicide, and delinquency risk factors in the target communities by using the shared goals, objectives, and guidelines when working in intervention, prevention, and tracking statistics. Membership in the task force is outlined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1223"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1223 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Bacon", "Regina English", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-01T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5078d1ae-e727-4993-adc9-96b06d10bf52"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1223"
source_hash: "c277b01224d384d22fabed0bd3f7069954e17fa6cc8202c68aea21665147c220"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 23-1223 (2023A) — Task Force To Prioritize Grants Target Population

The act creates a task force (task force) to establish shared goals, objectives, and guidelines for entities to utilize in prioritizing new and existing grant money to achieve maximum impact to reduce youth violence, suicide, and delinquency risk factors. The task force shall identify 3 target communities with the highest rates of youth violence, suicide, and delinquency risk factors. Beginning July 1, 2025, the task force shall create shared goals, objectives, and guidelines for governmental and community-based organizations to prioritize the use of new and existing state grant money, as well as help community-based organizations reduce youth violence, suicide, and delinquency risk factors in the target communities by using the shared goals, objectives, and guidelines when working in intervention, prevention, and tracking statistics. Membership in the task force is outlined.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_hb1223_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/23/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_h_pbh_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_h_pbh_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/04/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1223_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1223_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **45–18** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Regina English — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07T06:00:00+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
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+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`
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5078d1ae-e727-4993-adc9-96b06d10bf52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).