---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social Equity Licensees In Regulated Marijuana"
description: "In the \"Colorado Marijuana Code\", the act changes the term \"accelerator licensee\" to \"social equity licensee\" and alters the qualifications. A social equity licensee may participate in the accelerator program on the premises of a retail marijuana licensee whereby the social equity licensee receives assistance from an experienced retail marijuana licensee. The act expands the accelerator program to include a retail marijuana store licensee. A retail marijuana licensee participating in the accelerator program and a social equity licensee may be entitled to incentives from the department of revenue or the office of economic development and international trade."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1424"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1424 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Coleman", "Julie Gonzales", "Vicki Marble"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef702245-7c9e-4419-9a60-953e81f90f37"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1424"
source_hash: "31a7f57abe9b6fa9321bb508256a59912984fbc1c7e7ed06e0b811b9f246cc14"
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 20-1424 (2020A) — Social Equity Licensees In Regulated Marijuana

In the "Colorado Marijuana Code", the act changes the term "accelerator licensee" to "social equity licensee" and alters the qualifications. A social equity licensee may participate in the accelerator program on the premises of a retail marijuana licensee whereby the social equity licensee receives assistance from an experienced retail marijuana licensee. The act expands the accelerator program to include a retail marijuana store licensee. A retail marijuana licensee participating in the accelerator program and a social equity licensee may be entitled to incentives from the department of revenue or the office of economic development and international trade.

## 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_hb1424_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1424_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/26/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1424_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (06/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1424_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (06/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1424_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (06/15/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1424_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (06/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1424_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (06/29/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1424_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **24–7** (pass) · upper
- NOT CNCR — **60–3** (pass) · lower
- Motion not given. — **38–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **47–18** (pass) · lower
- Motion not given. — **37–23** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **24–9** (pass) · upper
- Motion not given. — **23–37** (fail) · lower
- ADOPT CCR — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Coleman — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Vicki Marble — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+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/ef702245-7c9e-4419-9a60-953e81f90f37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).