---
type: "Bill"
title: "Organized Retail Theft Prevention"
description: "Secondhand dealers - gift card transactions - record-keeping. The act requires secondhand dealers who purchase gift cards to keep a record of those purchases. Failure to record the purchases in an electronic database is a class 3 misdemeanor. The act requires pawnbrokers to record the identification number, retailer name, and value of each gift card sold. The act adds a gift card to the definition of a \"valuable article\", which triggers certain record-keeping requirements.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-014"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-014 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Kerry Tipper", "Terri Carver"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f800ded6-0564-41f2-9428-21ec78c7d02f"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-014"
source_hash: "5018f21a421a3fb9ffdb95a006f728f37a373dc0fbf40d794b0c1de3db51a9d3"
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 19-014 (2019A) — Organized Retail Theft Prevention

Secondhand dealers - gift card transactions - record-keeping. The act requires secondhand dealers who purchase gift cards to keep a record of those purchases. Failure to record the purchases in an electronic database is a class 3 misdemeanor. The act requires pawnbrokers to record the identification number, retailer name, and value of each gift card sold. The act adds a gift card to the definition of a "valuable article", which triggers certain record-keeping requirements.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## 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/2019a_sb014_h_jud_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/13/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014sblt_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014jud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_014_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_014_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **64–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PERM — **64–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Kerry Tipper — primary (person)
- Terri Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over to 03/22/2019 - No Amendments
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Reconsider to Judiciary
- **2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/13/2019 - No Amendments
- **2019-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+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/f800ded6-0564-41f2-9428-21ec78c7d02f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).