---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPS Check Program Changes"
description: "Under current law, when an employer is going to hire a person to work in a position in which the person has contact with at-risk adults, the employer must perform a check of the system that contains substantiated claims of mistreatment against an at-risk adult (CAPS check). The act makes various clarifying changes to the adult protection statutes related to the CAPS check program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1302"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1302 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "Susan Lontine"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de23707b-42c9-4c09-a74c-0d69576b901a"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1302"
source_hash: "cd8e273d8118e1448b8df0648404e7304cec5733ac688dca09dd6d0154bf43d9"
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 20-1302 (2020A) — CAPS Check Program Changes

Under current law, when an employer is going to hire a person to work in a position in which the person has contact with at-risk adults, the employer must perform a check of the system that contains substantiated claims of mistreatment against an at-risk adult (CAPS check). The act makes various clarifying changes to the adult protection statutes related to the CAPS check program.

## 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_hb1302_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (2) (03/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1302_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (07/02/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1302_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/20/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1302_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1302pub_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1302_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/03/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1302_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/02/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1302_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (07/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1302_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **39–23** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **28–6** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **54–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Susan Lontine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-10T06:00:00+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
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
- **2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `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`
- **2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de23707b-42c9-4c09-a74c-0d69576b901a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).