republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-283.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mechanisms For Federal Infrastructure Funding"
description: "Existing law allows money expended from the \"Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act\" (IIJA) cash fund (cash fund) to be used as matching nonfederal money for infrastructure projects pursuant to requirements of the IIJA as well as for grant writing support, project planning support, and administrative needs. The act clarifies that, with respect to the project planning support for which money from the fund is already authorized to be expended, the Governor's office (office) may specifically expend money from the fund for project planning support for federal funding opportunities in connection with the IIJA and related federal funding opportunities including funding opportunities from the \"Inflation Reduction Act\". The act requires the state treasurer to transfer $84 million from the general fund to the cash fund on July 1, 2023. Additionally, the act changes the annual reporting requirement of the office to a quarterly reporting requirement beginning on July 1, 2023."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-283"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-283 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emily Sirota", "Jeff Bridges", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b8242e3-444a-4f7c-bd3c-02e71a62c895"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-283"
source_hash: "edc82f9dee0d4ec29440356d0a518df54b71222fd09180927d94eca4304ea6ad"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado SB 23-283 (2023A) — Mechanisms For Federal Infrastructure Funding

Existing law allows money expended from the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" (IIJA) cash fund (cash fund) to be used as matching nonfederal money for infrastructure projects pursuant to requirements of the IIJA as well as for grant writing support, project planning support, and administrative needs. The act clarifies that, with respect to the project planning support for which money from the fund is already authorized to be expended, the Governor's office (office) may specifically expend money from the fund for project planning support for federal funding opportunities in connection with the IIJA and related federal funding opportunities including funding opportunities from the "Inflation Reduction Act". The act requires the state treasurer to transfer $84 million from the general fund to the cash fund on July 1, 2023. Additionally, the act changes the annual reporting requirement of the office to a quarterly reporting requirement beginning on July 1, 2023.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_sb283_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_283_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_283_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_283_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_283_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/25/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_283_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_283_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_283_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/22/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_283_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **51–14** (pass) · lower
- AMEND — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b8242e3-444a-4f7c-bd3c-02e71a62c895`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).