republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1408.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1408	Colorado HB 24-1408 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Emily Sirota Rachel Zenzinger Rick Taggart	9	12	2	2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00	2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cd88734b-1ef0-4e0e-aeaf-8286f8c5a4d7	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1408	1e630943d3f5fbac7306aee9fe8c64a65e792bcbe92ce48d2735b2bc2e313237	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Engrossed (03/28/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/24/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/25/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/27/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/01/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/05/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/29/2024) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/cd88734b-1ef0-4e0e-aeaf-8286f8c5a4d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).