republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1283.md

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Bill	Transfer Refugee Services To New Americans Office	Under current law, the department of human services (state department) is tasked with administering the Colorado refugee services program. Effective October 1, 2024, the act transfers the rights, powers, duties, and functions related to the administration of the Colorado refugee services program to the Colorado office of new Americans (ONA) in the department of labor and employment. However, if the federal department of health and human services does not transfer contracts with the state department that are open as of October 1, 2024, the state department will continue administering those contracts until the end of the contract period or when all funds are liquidated, whichever occurs first.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1283	Colorado HB 23-1283 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Iman Jodeh Julie Gonzales	11	15	4	2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/741fe7d1-164b-4130-b6e9-0efc1ee7657c	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1283	4366dd076370d2ec6901313e0c96eb47b7b31e714c24bea926ce3d5717553720	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1283 (2023A) — Transfer Refugee Services To New Americans Office

Under current law, the department of human services (state department) is tasked with administering the Colorado refugee services program. Effective October 1, 2024, the act transfers the rights, powers, duties, and functions related to the administration of the Colorado refugee services program to the Colorado office of new Americans (ONA) in the department of labor and employment. However, if the federal department of health and human services does not transfer contracts with the state department that are open as of October 1, 2024, the state department will continue administering those contracts until the end of the contract period or when all funds are liquidated, whichever occurs first.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 46–17 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 46–18 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 44–19 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 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 with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/741fe7d1-164b-4130-b6e9-0efc1ee7657c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).