republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1285.md

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Bill	Store Use Of Carryout Bags And Sustainable Products	Currently, a grocery store, supermarket, convenience store, liquor store, dry cleaner, pharmacy, drug store, clothing store, or other type of retail establishment at which carryout bags are traditionally provided to customers (store) is required to collect a fee for each carryout bag the store provides to a customer. The store must remit a portion of that fee to the municipality or county (local government) in which the store is located. When the local government has not established a process to accept the remitted fees, the act requires the store to retain and use the portion of the fee that would otherwise be remitted to a local government:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1285	Colorado HB 23-1285 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Alex Valdez Kevin Priola Lisa Cutter	8	15	4	2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cd9aeba9-97dd-4025-aa12-8749b83c3b25	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1285	cf7ef25b6b537c52a3f6ac16ac1d5695a45d922f5620e6d78547e1dcb8a3e169	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1285 (2023A) — Store Use Of Carryout Bags And Sustainable Products

Currently, a grocery store, supermarket, convenience store, liquor store, dry cleaner, pharmacy, drug store, clothing store, or other type of retail establishment at which carryout bags are traditionally provided to customers (store) is required to collect a fee for each carryout bag the store provides to a customer. The store must remit a portion of that fee to the municipality or county (local government) in which the store is located. When the local government has not established a process to accept the remitted fees, the act requires the store to retain and use the portion of the fee that would otherwise be remitted to a local government:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 47–18 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 48–16 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 47–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Valdez — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd9aeba9-97dd-4025-aa12-8749b83c3b25. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).