---
type: "Bill"
title: "Update Colorado Employment Security Act"
description: "For the purpose of establishing a worker's eligibility for unemployment benefits,\"immediate family\" includes:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-170"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-170 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominique Jackson", "Jessie Danielson", "Monica Duran"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-18T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58490d0a-eb60-4ee5-81fb-8fbb06cc0aca"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-170"
source_hash: "b75a70d6ae9b65d875d5fcd0dcc0683d8b246e8a003c4348fa8e2b054935fffe"
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 20-170 (2020A) — Update Colorado Employment Security Act

For the purpose of establishing a worker's eligibility for unemployment benefits,"immediate family" includes:

## 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_sb170_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (06/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_170_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/19/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_170_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/18/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_170_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_170sfin_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (06/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_170_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_170_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_170_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (07/14/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_170_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **41–24** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dominique Jackson — primary (person)
- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Monica Duran — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **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 Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Appropriations `introduction`
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, 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`
- **2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/58490d0a-eb60-4ee5-81fb-8fbb06cc0aca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).