---
type: "Bill"
title: "Aggravated Cruelty to Law Enforcement Animals"
description: "Under current law, aggravated cruelty to animals is a class 4 felony. The act specifies that a person commits the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals if the person knowingly kills or causes serious bodily injury resulting in death to a law enforcement animal whether the of a law enforcement animal is on duty or not."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1074"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1074 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Joann Ginal", "Monica Duran", "Ryan Armagost"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47e6e175-36dc-4852-9dc8-dba489127b03"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1074"
source_hash: "d2b55ec9607f666a07ad3662df43064a69f06bbbacab6c033bd26e4ba436c5bd"
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 24-1074 (2024A) — Aggravated Cruelty to Law Enforcement Animals

Under current law, aggravated cruelty to animals is a class 4 felony. The act specifies that a person commits the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals if the person knowingly kills or causes serious bodily injury resulting in death to a law enforcement animal whether the of a law enforcement animal is on duty or not.

## 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_hb1074_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1074_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1074_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1074_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/31/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1074_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1074_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1074_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/21/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1074_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1074_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **52–12** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Monica Duran — primary (person)
- Ryan Armagost — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-17T06:00:00+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
- **2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2024-02-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47e6e175-36dc-4852-9dc8-dba489127b03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).