republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1270.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creation Of Urgent Incident Response Fund"
description: "The act creates the urgent incident response fund (fund). Money in the fund is annually appropriated to the division of homeland security and emergency management (division) in the department of public safety (department) to reimburse state agencies and local governments for the costs of responding to urgent incidents that do not rise to the level of disasters or emergencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1270"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1270 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Gonzales", "Lorena Garcia", "Mandy Lindsay"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e84ae0d0-1082-4d59-a500-4332cc1f1175"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1270"
source_hash: "bdfc438d3b49594b0ef3b44680df5032fc84e11c188ea9be4d1c0009e98b163e"
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 23-1270 (2023A) — Creation Of Urgent Incident Response Fund

The act creates the urgent incident response fund (fund). Money in the fund is annually appropriated to the division of homeland security and emergency management (division) in the department of public safety (department) to reimburse state agencies and local governments for the costs of responding to urgent incidents that do not rise to the level of disasters or emergencies.

## 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_hb1270_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/20/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1270_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1270_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1270_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1270_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1270_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/04/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1270_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1270_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1270_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMD — **45–15** (pass) · lower
- PERM — **43–17** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Lorena Garcia — primary (person)
- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01T06:00:00+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
- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - 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`
- **2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e84ae0d0-1082-4d59-a500-4332cc1f1175`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).