---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gender-Related Bias-Motivated Crimes"
description: "The act adds transgender identity to the classes identified in bias-motivated crimes and harassment. The act redefines sexual orientation for purposes of bias-motivated crimes as a person's orientation toward sexual or emotional attraction and the behavior or social affiliation that may result from the attraction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-189"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-189 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Hansen", "Matt Soper", "Mike Weissman", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4de4cce9-2f79-4a44-9962-8197ad01e16f"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-189"
source_hash: "ec84bb80b5a553699817ac61247b642b7a6006553a1f77cb217fabaad8eb9722"
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 24-189 (2024A) — Gender-Related Bias-Motivated Crimes

The act adds transgender identity to the classes identified in bias-motivated crimes and harassment. The act redefines sexual orientation for purposes of bias-motivated crimes as a person's orientation toward sexual or emotional attraction and the behavior or social affiliation that may result from the attraction.

## 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_sb189_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_s_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_h_jud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_189_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/31/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_189_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **45–17** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-31T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/08/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/4de4cce9-2f79-4a44-9962-8197ad01e16f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).