---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Management Plan Individuals with Animals"
description: "The act strongly encourages a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after July 1, 2024, and requires, when practicable, as determined after consideration of specified required factors, a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after January 1, 2025, to address the needs of an individual with an animal during an emergency by:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1033"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1033 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Velasco", "Lisa Cutter", "Marc Snyder", "Sonya Jaquez Lewis"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89841586-3e92-4862-8b24-8ff735d6eead"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1033"
source_hash: "136adc65646800461df5f80b78a53ba52133e79fba10fe02eb7d8338f6811e5f"
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 24-1033 (2024A) — Emergency Management Plan Individuals with Animals

The act strongly encourages a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after July 1, 2024, and requires, when practicable, as determined after consideration of specified required factors, a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after January 1, 2025, to address the needs of an individual with an animal during an emergency by:

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_hb1033_s_lgh_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/14/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_h_awn_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/20/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_s_lgh_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1033_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/11/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1033_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **46–16** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **48–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth Velasco — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
- Marc Snyder — primary (person)
- Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing `introduction`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89841586-3e92-4862-8b24-8ff735d6eead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).