---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance Marijuana-licensed Business"
description: "Current law states that a common paymaster is not a single employing unit for purposes of considering the services performed by another employing unit subject to a single or common payroll. The act creates an exception for an employee leasing company or other employing entity that is owned by one or more persons who have a medical or retail marijuana license and who own at least 50% of an entity that shares the employee leasing company's or other employing entity's services. The employee leasing company or other employing entity is not considered a common paymaster for the purposes of the \"Colorado Employment Security Act\".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1204"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1204 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Holbert", "Joann Ginal", "Marc Snyder"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ce92a9c-ba14-40f4-ae9b-bfb127e08540"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1204"
source_hash: "a6a5c68cd736d5b5b55c4680a3aeee81d474a6a70645a84b754330fed001035f"
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 21-1204 (2021A) — Unemployment Insurance Marijuana-licensed Business

Current law states that a common paymaster is not a single employing unit for purposes of considering the services performed by another employing unit subject to a single or common payroll. The act creates an exception for an employee leasing company or other employing entity that is owned by one or more persons who have a medical or retail marijuana license and who own at least 50% of an entity that shares the employee leasing company's or other employing entity's services. The employee leasing company or other employing entity is not considered a common paymaster for the purposes of the "Colorado Employment Security Act".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## 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_hb1204_s_blt_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1204_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1204_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1204_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1204_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1204_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1204_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1204_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **50–14** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Holbert — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Marc Snyder — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **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 - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`
- **2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04T07:00:00+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/1ce92a9c-ba14-40f4-ae9b-bfb127e08540`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).