---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employee Age To Sell Alcohol Retail Liquor Store"
description: "The act removes the prohibition against an employee of a liquor-licensed drugstore who is under 21 years of age having contact with alcohol beverages at the liquor-licensed drugstore."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-032"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-032 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Holbert", "Daneya Esgar", "Hugh McKean"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd384f3b-eb69-4ecb-ac9c-abfa7406a18b"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-032"
source_hash: "f3071d2a92d8e9bdc287ca8f06cd7f0e5caeb63bb2865cc99dc736c59a870444"
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 SB 20-032 (2020A) — Employee Age To Sell Alcohol Retail Liquor Store

The act removes the prohibition against an employee of a liquor-licensed drugstore who is under 21 years of age having contact with alcohol beverages at the liquor-licensed drugstore.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_sb032_h_bus_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/30/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_032_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/14/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_032_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_032_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_032sblt_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (01/31/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_032_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_032_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_032_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (03/20/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_032_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Holbert — primary (person)
- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
- Hugh McKean — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
- **2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd384f3b-eb69-4ecb-ac9c-abfa7406a18b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).