republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-097.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Motor Vehicle Theft And Unauthorized Use	Current law criminalizes auto theft as "aggravated motor vehicle theft in the first degree" and "aggravated motor vehicle theft in the second degree." The penalties for both aggravated motor vehicle thefts are based on the value of the vehicle or vehicles stolen.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-097	Colorado SB 23-097 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Matt Soper Rachel Zenzinger Shannon Bird	11	17	4	2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c9dc4b62-3d50-4752-ab3f-222bd19f53af	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-097	80ea452292c1dc2115fa0e746c73c175c1ee790002be2327de741b12c5a8569a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-097 (2023A) — Motor Vehicle Theft And Unauthorized Use

Current law criminalizes auto theft as "aggravated motor vehicle theft in the first degree" and "aggravated motor vehicle theft in the second degree." The penalties for both aggravated motor vehicle thefts are based on the value of the vehicle or vehicles stolen.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 48–16 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 33–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+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 Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9dc4b62-3d50-4752-ab3f-222bd19f53af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).