---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retail Business Must Accept Cash"
description: "The act requires retail establishments that offer goods or services to accept United States currency (cash) to purchase the goods or services, but does not apply to:Establishments that do not have an individual accepting payment in person;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1048"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1048 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Valdez", "Robert Rodriguez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62ae2ab2-7a9f-4579-bef6-4229537efd5c"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1048"
source_hash: "d632148ef447bce913e12e60b2db7eac01e9f8431a832cb3972d878055e7cee6"
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 21-1048 (2021A) — Retail Business Must Accept Cash

The act requires retail establishments that offer goods or services to accept United States currency (cash) to purchase the goods or services, but does not apply to:Establishments that do not have an individual accepting payment in person;

## 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/2021a_hb1048_s_blt_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/24/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/30/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048bus_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048sblt_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/25/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1048_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1048_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **58–6** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **45–19** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **47–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alex Valdez — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`
- **2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+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/62ae2ab2-7a9f-4579-bef6-4229537efd5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).