---
type: "Bill"
title: "Race Trait Hairstyle Anti-discrimination Protect"
description: "The act enacts the \"Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2020\", also known as the \"CROWN Act of 2020\", which specifies that, for purposes of anti-discrimination laws in the context of public education, employment practices, housing, public accommodations, and advertising, protections against discrimination on the basis of one's race include hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle commonly or historically associated with race, such as braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, Bantu knots, Afros, and headwraps."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1048"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1048 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janet Buckner", "Leslie Herod", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f32baea-78f9-4849-ade6-617008a3f0ab"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1048"
source_hash: "ad7ec0bcd7003a660b2e981378737e436a64cd5097732cbc9d896461fb308bbf"
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 20-1048 (2020A) — Race Trait Hairstyle Anti-discrimination Protect

The act enacts the "Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2020", also known as the "CROWN Act of 2020", which specifies that, for purposes of anti-discrimination laws in the context of public education, employment practices, housing, public accommodations, and advertising, protections against discrimination on the basis of one's race include hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle commonly or historically associated with race, such as braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, Bantu knots, Afros, and headwraps.

## 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_hb1048_s_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1048_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1048_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1048_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1048_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1048_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/27/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1048_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1048_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **42–21** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2020-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f32baea-78f9-4849-ade6-617008a3f0ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).