---
type: "Bill"
title: "Endowment Care Cemetery Authority"
description: "The bill authorizes the fiduciary of an endowment fund to distribute principal, such as capital gains, under a unitrust election. This facilitates investing in stocks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2017A"
identifier: "HB 17-1096"
citation: "Colorado HB 17-1096 (2017A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Smallwood", "Larry Liston"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-19T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4054fb0f-4632-4f1d-a3d8-eeb7988ec9e5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1096"
source_hash: "0b45246e268c681fd658130ddc8cf489284aa12ccf9d19efbe41f9e8101afc05"
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 HB 17-1096 (2017A) — Endowment Care Cemetery Authority

The bill authorizes the fiduciary of an endowment fund to distribute principal, such as capital gains, under a unitrust election. This facilitates investing in stocks.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment L.001** (committee substitute) — [source](http://coga.prod.acquia-sites.com/sites/default/files/html-attachments/h_fin_2017a_20170206t134056z0__hearing_summary/17HouseFin0206AttachB.pdf)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017a/bills/cr/2017A_HB1096_S_FIN_001.pdf)
3. **Engrossed (02/09/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096_eng.pdf)
4. **Final Act (03/16/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096_enr.pdf)
5. **Introduced (01/19/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096_01.pdf)
6. **PA1 (02/07/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096fin_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/10/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/08/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/07/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (03/20/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1096_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 17-1096, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 12-0. — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1096 to the Committee of the Whole with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment B). The motion passed without objection. — **0–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Larry Liston — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2017-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2017-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2017-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-01-19T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4054fb0f-4632-4f1d-a3d8-eeb7988ec9e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).