---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance"
description: "Beginning in calendar year 2021 and each year thereafter, the act increases the amount of wages paid to an individual employee during a calendar year on which the employer of that employee is required to pay premiums to the unemployment compensation fund (fund)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-207"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-207 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Hansen", "Faith Winter", "Matt Gray", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab069008-bf44-4cfe-a660-50f6cb647c74"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-207"
source_hash: "ae758ef3db59b86bf9903ac4ecadffc7266af3a7a4a8bafa76e6b7b710f164c9"
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 20-207 (2020A) — Unemployment Insurance

Beginning in calendar year 2021 and each year thereafter, the act increases the amount of wages paid to an individual employee during a calendar year on which the employer of that employee is required to pay premiums to the unemployment compensation fund (fund).

## 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_sb207_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (06/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_207_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/29/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_207_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (05/26/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_207_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (06/03/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_207sfin_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (06/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_207_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_207_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_207_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (07/14/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_207_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **19–16** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–24** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **19–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Matt Gray — primary (person)
- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **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 with Amendments - Floor
- **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 Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-26T06:00:00+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/ab069008-bf44-4cfe-a660-50f6cb647c74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).