republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1214.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Encourage Employee Ownership Of Existing Small Business	The bill requires the Colorado office of economic development (office) to engage the services of a local nonprofit organization that supports and promotes the employee-owned business model to educate the staff at the office on the forms and merits of employee ownership in order for the office to promote employee ownership as part of its small business assistance center.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1214	Colorado HB 17-1214 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Jack Tate James Coleman	10	16	4	2017-02-27T07:00:00+00:00	2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9d798926-6912-4654-8459-c17936ef94f4	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1214	37d01586ba274b3f9d557f98d8e3d88d392f31cb6e47661e26670ccff0b17bcd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1214 (2017A) — Encourage Employee Ownership Of Existing Small Business

The bill requires the Colorado office of economic development (office) to engage the services of a local nonprofit organization that supports and promotes the employee-owned business model to educate the staff at the office on the forms and merits of employee ownership in order for the office to promote employee ownership as part of its small business assistance center.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.003 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (03/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/18/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (02/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (03/20/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/22/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/19/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/18/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 17-1214 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1214 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-2. — 5–2 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.002. The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1214, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 7-6. — 7–6 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jack Tate — primary (person)
• James Coleman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Referred to Business, Labor, & Technology - No Amendments
• 2017-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2017-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs and Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d798926-6912-4654-8459-c17936ef94f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).