republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1016.md

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Bill	Defined Personnel for Emergency Telephone Services	The act defines "emergency communications specialist" as a first responder whose duties involve emergency and nonemergency dispatch services. The act also clarifies that the currently authorized use of the emergency telephone charge, the 911 surcharge, and the prepaid wireless 911 charge, for training for public safety answering point (PSAP) personnel includes training for emergency communications specialists, technical support PSAP personnel, and other personnel essential for the provision of emergency telephone services, emergency notification services, and emergency medical dispatch.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1016	Colorado HB 24-1016 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Chris Kolker Kevin Van Winkle Ryan Armagost Sheila Lieder	8	12	2	2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/511bd355-0fba-4e94-8907-4edae6dc79be	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1016	cd961c363d389bc568e2c46fe14b2ce25eeb99bc6efda0c8758462443c1c76eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1016 (2024A) — Defined Personnel for Emergency Telephone Services

The act defines "emergency communications specialist" as a first responder whose duties involve emergency and nonemergency dispatch services. The act also clarifies that the currently authorized use of the emergency telephone charge, the 911 surcharge, and the prepaid wireless 911 charge, for training for public safety answering point (PSAP) personnel includes training for emergency communications specialists, technical support PSAP personnel, and other personnel essential for the provision of emergency telephone services, emergency notification services, and emergency medical dispatch.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/02/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/05/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (02/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (02/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/15/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Kolker — primary (person)
• Kevin Van Winkle — primary (person)
• Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
• Sheila Lieder — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2024-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2024-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing introduction
• 2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/511bd355-0fba-4e94-8907-4edae6dc79be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).