---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adjust Tax Expenditures For State Education Fund"
description: "Section 1 of the act specifies that the act shall be known as the \"Tax Fairness Act\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1420"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1420 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Hansen", "Dominick Moreno", "Emily Sirota", "Matt Gray"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 15
vote_count: 23
first_action: "2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-11T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daa813b1-d1f6-46f8-9ee8-c3574a0aa97c"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1420"
source_hash: "d416effd9e2e0685157fdfcd04865b704a39d0901086010a30ceaed2ec2b1b20"
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 20-1420 (2020A) — Adjust Tax Expenditures For State Education Fund

Section 1 of the act specifies that the act shall be known as the "Tax Fairness Act".

## 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/2020a_hb1420_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/19/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (06/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420app.pdf)
7. **PA3 (06/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420sfin_01.pdf)
8. **PA4 (06/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420sfinsapp.pdf)
9. **Reengrossed (06/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420_ren.pdf)
10. **Rerevised (06/15/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420_rer.pdf)
11. **Revised (06/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1420_rev.pdf)
12. **Signed Act (07/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1420_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMD — **29–34** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **24–39** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- AMEND — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **30–33** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **24–39** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **24–39** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **25–38** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **22–41** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **39–26** (pass) · lower
- PERM — **51–14** (pass) · lower
- PERM — **64–1** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **29–34** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **29–34** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **30–33** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **41–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–13** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **25–38** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **28–35** (fail) · lower
- REPASS — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **26–37** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **32–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Matt Gray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-11T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/daa813b1-d1f6-46f8-9ee8-c3574a0aa97c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).