republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-039.md

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Bill	Reduce Child And Incarcerated Parent Separation	The act requires the department of human services to promulgate rules that facilitate communication and family time between children and their parents who are incarcerated.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-039	Colorado SB 23-039 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Janet Buckner Judy Amabile	11	17	5	2023-01-12T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fe4fd17e-895d-4c29-9264-0f172dfa6a2c	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-039	a74c70c528dfde0ca7088c7e344836ac1d83e64130df7f36802c7f332b7972f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-039 (2023A) — Reduce Child And Incarcerated Parent Separation

The act requires the department of human services to promulgate rules that facilitate communication and family time between children and their parents who are incarcerated.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 60–2 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 22–10 (pass) · upper
• AMEND — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 25–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Judy Amabile — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 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
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction
• 2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-01-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe4fd17e-895d-4c29-9264-0f172dfa6a2c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).