republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1139.md

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Bill	Death Benefit for State Employee Surviving Spouse	Pursuant to the "Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado", death benefits will be paid to a dependent surviving spouse of a deceased employee for life, regardless of remarriage, rather than until remarriage, if the surviving spouse receives death benefits pursuant to law and the deceased employee was a state employee who worked in a job with a high-risk classification.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1139	Colorado HB 24-1139 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Perry Will Ryan Armagost Sheila Lieder Tony Exum	10	13	4	2024-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9d3c2bad-0621-4635-83a0-01a8637b6efd	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1139	e6eee6579be8d99672c8078ec97c8a055698493d430953bd89244e1c0c8a96ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1139 (2024A) — Death Benefit for State Employee Surviving Spouse

Pursuant to the "Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado", death benefits will be paid to a dependent surviving spouse of a deceased employee for life, regardless of remarriage, rather than until remarriage, if the surviving spouse receives death benefits pursuant to law and the deceased employee was a state employee who worked in a job with a high-risk classification.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/09/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/27/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/09/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/08/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/12/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/13/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/12/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 56–8 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–5 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 57–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Perry Will — primary (person)
• Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
• Sheila Lieder — primary (person)
• Tony Exum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2024-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2024-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2024-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d3c2bad-0621-4635-83a0-01a8637b6efd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).