republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-266.md

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Bill	Neonic Pesticides As Limited-use Pesticides	The act requires that, on or before January 1, 2024, the commissioner of agriculture adopt rules requiring neonicotinoid pesticides to be designated as limited-use pesticides and authorizing only licensed dealers to sell them. Products containing neonicotinoid active ingredients used in academic research are exempted from the limited-use pesticide designation, as are the following products that contain neonicotinoid active ingredients and for which the product label includes an intended use as:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-266	Colorado SB 23-266 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Cathy Kipp Kevin Priola Kyle Brown Sonya Jaquez Lewis	9	15	4	2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7fbf9364-222f-4505-aa3e-16b133ea2de4	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-266	afd6c7be633eb173d0c706541fce06c55353a59c68725d95bedf775654701323	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-266 (2023A) — Neonic Pesticides As Limited-use Pesticides

The act requires that, on or before January 1, 2024, the commissioner of agriculture adopt rules requiring neonicotinoid pesticides to be designated as limited-use pesticides and authorizing only licensed dealers to sell them. Products containing neonicotinoid active ingredients used in academic research are exempted from the limited-use pesticide designation, as are the following products that contain neonicotinoid active ingredients and for which the product label includes an intended use as:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 27–8 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 46–19 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 26–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)
• Kyle Brown — primary (person)
• Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources introduction
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7fbf9364-222f-4505-aa3e-16b133ea2de4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).