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type: "Bill"
title: "Expenditures for Care Assistance Programs"
description: "The act clarifies that the relative guardianship assistance program for children and youth and the adoption assistance program (programs) are entitlement programs. The state controller is authorized to allow overexpenditures for the programs. The act requires the department of human services (department) to report to the joint budget committee annually regarding actual and projected caseloads and expenditures for the programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1408"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1408 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Emily Sirota", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rick Taggart"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd88734b-1ef0-4e0e-aeaf-8286f8c5a4d7"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1408"
source_hash: "1e630943d3f5fbac7306aee9fe8c64a65e792bcbe92ce48d2735b2bc2e313237"
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 HB 24-1408 (2024A) — Expenditures for Care Assistance Programs
The act clarifies that the relative guardianship assistance program for children and youth and the adoption assistance program (programs) are entitlement programs. The state controller is authorized to allow overexpenditures for the programs. The act requires the department of human services (department) to report to the joint budget committee annually regarding actual and projected caseloads and expenditures for the programs.
## 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/2024a_hb1408_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1408_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1408_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1408_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/27/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1408_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1408_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1408_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1408_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/29/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1408_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **24–1** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **57–7** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - 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/cd88734b-1ef0-4e0e-aeaf-8286f8c5a4d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).