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type: "Bill"
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title: "Amend Fund To Allow Payment Overdue Wage Claims"
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description: "Starting April 1, 2024, the act allows the division of labor standards and statistics (division) in the department of labor and employment (department) to use money in the wage theft enforcement fund (fund) to pay employees who are owed money from their employers due to obligations and liabilities related to the payment of wages or other compensation. The division may pay an employee if an employer fails to fulfill an order by the division to pay the employee that results from a wage claim or an investigation:"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2023A"
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identifier: "SB 23-231"
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citation: "Colorado SB 23-231 (2023A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Emily Sirota", "Jeff Bridges", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rod Bockenfeld"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84274a71-c82d-48da-a517-d7f6f539fa38"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-231"
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source_hash: "2354500d68d43c9ed656f5c1ff689fecb8f1841e67eab7ec5017294a4b4d194f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado SB 23-231 (2023A) — Amend Fund To Allow Payment Overdue Wage Claims
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Starting April 1, 2024, the act allows the division of labor standards and statistics (division) in the department of labor and employment (department) to use money in the wage theft enforcement fund (fund) to pay employees who are owed money from their employers due to obligations and liabilities related to the payment of wages or other compensation. The division may pay an employee if an employer fails to fulfill an order by the division to pay the employee that results from a wage claim or an investigation:
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_sb231_h_app_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (03/29/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_231_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (04/11/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_231_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (03/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_231_01.pdf)
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5. **Reengrossed (03/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_231_ren.pdf)
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6. **Rerevised (04/06/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_231_rer.pdf)
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7. **Revised (04/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_231_rev.pdf)
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8. **Signed Act (04/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_231_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **26–9** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **47–16** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
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- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
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- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
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- Rod Bockenfeld — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
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- **2023-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2023-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84274a71-c82d-48da-a517-d7f6f539fa38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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