republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-163.md

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Bill	Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officers Classified As State Troopers	Beginning July 1, 2023, the act classifies a wildlife officer and a parks and recreation officer employed by the division of parks and wildlife (division) in the department of natural resources (department) and hired on or after January 1, 2011, as a state trooper for the purpose of determining the officer's public employees' retirement association service retirement eligibility and benefit.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-163	Colorado SB 23-163 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Iman Jodeh Kyle Mullica Mike Lynch Perry Will	10	15	2	2023-02-17T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e066ce1d-fe05-441e-b17a-4f0ecbedcbca	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-163	a37546d19e93dbb0953aff231e544454459a2f8900a6500a432ccfaa6ba2da2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-163 (2023A) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officers Classified As State Troopers

Beginning July 1, 2023, the act classifies a wildlife officer and a parks and recreation officer employed by the division of parks and wildlife (division) in the department of natural resources (department) and hired on or after January 1, 2011, as a state trooper for the purpose of determining the officer's public employees' retirement association service retirement eligibility and benefit.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/31/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/31/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 61–3 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Iman Jodeh — primary (person)
• Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
• Mike Lynch — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-06T06:00:00+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 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 - No Amendments
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e066ce1d-fe05-441e-b17a-4f0ecbedcbca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).