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2023 Legislative Session Bill Tracking
Below is a list of bills that are supported (or not) by the All Families Deserve a Chance Coalition. We update this list as each bill moves through the various legislative committees that need to address it before coming to a vote of the legislature. The progress can be seen in the Status column. PLEASE NOTE: Bill numbers are linked to that Bill's page on the CO General Assembly site. In the Title & Description column, some of the Titles feature a link to an information sheet or draft of the bill. Active links are underlined in aqua. POSITION: "+" = support "-" = oppose "M" = monitor
Bill # | Type | Sponsors | Title and Description | Position | Status |
Family Economic Security | S: Zenzinger, Kirkmeyer H: Kipp, Catlin | Gives authority to higher education institutions to grant high school equivalency degrees and adds digital literacy skills into potential curriculum. | + | Referred to Appropriations Committee | |
Family Economic Security | H: Lindsay, Fields | Improves access to training for mobility, workforce center access, and programming under the SNAP E&T program. | + | Passed first committee onto appropriations | |
Family Economic Security | H: Sirota, Gonzales-Gutierrz S: Gonzales, Winter | Fair Work Week Improves scheduling and pay conditions for part-time workers, especially in retail, by compensating workers for schedule changes, combatting close to open shifts, and limiting reliance on part-time over full-time workers. | + | Postponed indefinitely | |
Housing and Renter Protections | S: Winter | Tenant Screening Protection Bill Protects tenants from discriminatory landlord practices around | + | Introduced in Senate | |
Family Economic Security | S: Hansen | EITC/CTC Expansion Increases state-level Earned Income Tax Credit from 20% to 40% and expands both the amount and eligibility for the state-level Child Tax Credit. | + | Assigned to House Finance Committee | |
Family Economic Security | H: Young S: Exum | Employer Notice of Income Tax Credits Requires employers to provide employees notice of the state and federal income tax and child tax credits in appropriate languages. | + | Passed Senate Business Committee | |
Family Economic Security | H: Kennedy | TABOR Rebate Reallocation Makes permanent the equal distribution of TABOR rebates to those making under $250,000 as an individual or $500,000 as joint filers. | + | Not yet introduced | |
Family Economic Security | H: Willford | Dependent Allowance on Unemployment Insurance Establishes a weekly dependent allowance for those on unemployment insurance with dependent children or adults. | + | Referred to Appropriations Committee | |
Family Economic Security | S: Cutter | Food Pantry Assistance Grant Program Allocates $3 million of General Funds to the Food Pantry Assitance Grant for FY23-24 and extends the grant for five years. | + | Introduced | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Vigil, Weissman S: Fields, Exum | Portable Screening Report for Residental Leases Enables a renter applying for housing to reuse their tenant screening reports to reduce future application costs. Enables renters to review their credit reports. Decreases landlord application fees. Places enforcement power with the Attorney General. | + | Introduced in the Senate | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Woodrow, Lindsay S: Hinrichsen | Prohibited Provisions in Rental Agreements Reforms lease agreement law regarding penalties stemming from eviction notices or actions and attorney fees. Prohibits leases from forcing renters to waive the right to jury trial and bring collective claims, nonrenewal notice fees, and landlord fees to recoup costs. | M | Assigned to Senate Local Government and Housing Committee | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Lindsay, Jodeh S: Exum, Jaquez Lewis | Remote Participation in Residential Evictions Enables renters to participate in residential eviction process court hearings to appear in-person or remotely and file documents electronically. Prohibits the charging of fees on electronic filings. Requires courts to comply with laws requiring accommodations for people with a disability or limited English proficiency. | + | Referred to House Appropriations Committee | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Velasco and Mabrey S: Rodriguez | Repeal Prohibition Local Residental Rent Control Repeals statutory prohibitions on local governments enacting rent control on private residential property and housing units. | + | Assigned to Local Government and Housing Committee in the Senate | |
Family Economic Security | H: Ricks S: Exum | Consumer Reports Not Include Medical Debt Information Prohibits the reporting of medical debt on credit score reports, prohibits debt collectors from threatening consumers with the reporting of medical debt to credit reporting agencies, and protects consumers’ personal information. | + | Assigned to Senate Business, Labor, and Technology Committee | |
H: Epps, Willford S: Priola, Gonzales | Overdose Prevention Center Authorization Gives local governments the autonomy to approve overdose prevention sites after holding a public hearing. | + | Passed House second reading | ||
H: deGruy Kennedy, Sharbini S: Rodriguez | Reporting of Emergency Overdose Events Strengthens Colorado’s Good Samaritan laws to protect individuals who report an overdose and call for medical help but may have been sharing substances with the overdosing individual. | + | Assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee | ||
H: Lynch | Opioid Harm Reduction Creates a fund for distributing opioid antagonists to eligible schools and eliminates the requirement that someone be “knowing” that a substance contains fentanyl for it to become a level 4 felony. | - | Assigned to House Judiciary Committee | ||
H: S: Mullica, Pelton | Criminal Penalty Controlled Substance Supplier Makes it a level 1 drug felony if anyone sells, dispenses, distributes, or otherwise transfers any quantity of a substance that is the cause of the overdose death of another person who used the substance and launches an automatic homicide investigation in the case of overdose death. | - | Referred to Senate Committee of the Whole | ||
Family Economic Security | H: Weissman, Brown S: Cutter, Jaquez Lewis | Increase Consumer Protections Medical Transactions Adds consumer protections around medical debt like capping the interest rate at 3%, increasing transparency and disclosures, and payment plans. | + | Passed Senate third reading | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Joseph, Ortiz S: Fields, Winter | Eviction Protections for Residential Tenants Requires mediation between a tenant and a landlord prior to eviction if the tenant is a recipient of cash benefit programs and has identified themselves as being cash benefit recipients and extends the period to find a new housing option to thirty-days. | + | Referred to House Appropriations Committee | |
Family Economic Security | H: Gonzales-Gutierrez, Epps S: Exum | Relative and Kin Placement of a Child Establishes measures to protect the best interests of children in the case that the child is removed from the family, such as permitting relatives to appeal denied placement with the child and requiring preference be given to placing the child with a relative. | + | Referred to House Appropriations Committee | |