---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assignment Of State-owned Vehicles"
description: "Legislative Audit Committee. The bill clarifies the criteria and requirements in connection with the assignment of a state-owned motor vehicle (vehicle) to a state agency or to an officer or employee of a state agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2017A"
identifier: "HB 17-1296"
citation: "Colorado HB 17-1296 (2017A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cheri Jahn", "Dan Nordberg", "Jim Smallwood", "Tracy Kraft-Tharp"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4340177b-fb02-4a9b-bcda-7f238a6ca43f"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1296"
source_hash: "88b01ae553de7b0847937b24749753e3d380d5911010c73763baef5a68bd32af"
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 17-1296 (2017A) — Assignment Of State-owned Vehicles

Legislative Audit Committee. The bill clarifies the criteria and requirements in connection with the assignment of a state-owned motor vehicle (vehicle) to a state agency or to an officer or employee of a state agency.

## 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/documents/2017a/bills/cr/2017a_hb1296_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/24/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/27/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/25/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/26/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/10/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/09/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/02/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1296_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 17-1296 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 11-1. — **11–1** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1296 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1296 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 7-0. — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1296 to the Committee on Finance. The motion passed on a vote of 11-0 with 2 excused. — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt amendment J.002 The motion passed without objection. — **0–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1296, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — **13–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cheri Jahn — primary (person)
- Dan Nordberg — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Tracy Kraft-Tharp — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2017-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2017-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2017-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2017-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4340177b-fb02-4a9b-bcda-7f238a6ca43f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).