---
type: "Bill"
title: "Credit Transaction Charge Limitations"
description: "Under current law, a seller, lessor, or company issuing a credit or charge card is prohibited from imposing a surcharge against a person who elects to pay for a sales or lease transaction by using a credit or charge card. The act:Repeals the prohibition; and"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-091"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-091 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Colin Larson", "Larry Liston", "Robert Rodriguez", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/229ed36b-83da-4c81-8bf5-121b7e8be779"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-091"
source_hash: "e22b7bbe8ec57151291031835cff89b699d87cdd14b2d0460c6571a1360d1d7d"
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 21-091 (2021A) — Credit Transaction Charge Limitations

Under current law, a seller, lessor, or company issuing a credit or charge card is prohibited from imposing a surcharge against a person who elects to pay for a sales or lease transaction by using a credit or charge card. The act:Repeals the prohibition; and

## 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_sb091_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/12/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (05/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091ba_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (06/08/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_091_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (07/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_091_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **61–4** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Colin Larson — primary (person)
- Larry Liston — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`
- **2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/229ed36b-83da-4c81-8bf5-121b7e8be779`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).