---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nicotine Product Regulation"
description: "Sections 1 through 8 of the act raise the minimum age of a person to whom cigarettes, tobacco products, and nicotine products (products) may be sold from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. A products retailer must card anyone seeking to purchase products who appears to be under 50 years of age at the time of purchase."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1001"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1001 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Colin Larson", "Jeff Bridges", "Kevin Priola", "Kyle Mullica"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/797655f1-b904-4a8b-b7a3-107ee7902265"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1001"
source_hash: "90b64e89f2f1b35620bbd67696f6879e46a2a161a3e2c986823e51f5431b05af"
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 20-1001 (2020A) — Nicotine Product Regulation

Sections 1 through 8 of the act raise the minimum age of a person to whom cigarettes, tobacco products, and nicotine products (products) may be sold from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. A products retailer must card anyone seeking to purchase products who appears to be under 50 years of age at the time of purchase.

## 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_hb1001_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (07/02/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001hie_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001ap.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (06/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (06/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1001_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (07/14/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1001_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMD — **27–34** (fail) · lower
- REPASS — **40–21** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **52–9** (pass) · lower
- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **39–22** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **15–20** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Colin Larson — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/797655f1-b904-4a8b-b7a3-107ee7902265`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).