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2023 Legislative Session Results
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. POS (Position): "+" = support "-" = oppose "M" = monitor
| Bill # | Type | Sponsors | Title and Description | Pos | Status |
Family Economic Security | S: Zenzinger, Kirkmeyer H: Kipp, Catlin | Adult Education Gives authority to higher education institutions to grant high school equivalency degrees and adds digital literacy skills into potential curricula. | + | Passed | |
Family Economic Security | H: Lindsay, Fields | SNAP E&T Improves access to training for mobility, workforce center access, and programming under the SNAP E&T program. | + | Did not pass | |
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. | + | Did not pass | |
Family Economic Security | H: Bird, Young S: Hansen, Kolker | EITC/CTC Expansion Increases state-level Earned Income Tax Credit from 20% to 38% for tax year 2024 and permanently expands the eligibility for the state-level Child Tax Credit. | + | Passed | |
Family Economic Security | H: Young, Daugherty 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 | |
Family Economic Security | H: deGruy Kennedy, Weissman | TABOR Rebate Reallocation Flattens TABOR rebates from the six-tier model to a flat rebate regardless of income for the following year. This bill is tied to Proposition HH, which will be on the ballot in the fall. | + | Passed | |
Family Economic Security | H: Willford, Gonzales-Gutierrez S: Hansen | Dependent
Allowance on Unemployment Insurance | + | Did not pass | |
Family Economic Security | S: Cutter H: Story | 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. | + | Did not pass | |
Family Economic Security | H: Weissman, Brown S: Cutter, Jaquez Lewis | Increase
Consumer Protections Medical Transactions | + | Passed | |
Family Economic Security | H: Gonzales-Gutierrez, Epps S: Exum, Van Winkle | 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. | + | Passed | |
Family Economic Security | H: Ricks, Weinberg 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. | + | Passed | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Vigil, Weissman S: Fields, Exum | Portable
Screening Report for Residental Leases | + | Passed | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Woodrow, Lindsay S: Hinrichsen, Winter | 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 | Passed | |
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. | + | Passed | |
Housing and Renter Protections | H: Velasco and Mabrey S: Rodriguez | Repeal
Prohibition Local Residental Rent Control | + | Did not pass | |
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. | + | Passed | |
Health Care Access | 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. | + | Did not pass | |
Health Care Access | 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. | + | Passed | |
Health Care Access | 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. | - | Did not pass | |
Health Care Access | H: Lynch, Snyder S: Mullica, Pelton | Criminal Penalty Controlled Substance Supplier Makes it a level 1 drug felony if anyone sells, dispenses, distri-butes, 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. | - | Did not pass |