republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1321.md

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Bill	Electronic Verification Of Identification For A Motor Vehicle Rental	Drivers' licenses - renting or loaning a motor vehicle - use of electronic device for verification of driver's license. Current law prohibits a person from renting a motor vehicle to another person until the prospective lessor of the vehicle has inspected the prospective lessee's driver's license and compared and verified the signature on the license with the prospective lessee's signature in his or her presence. The act removes the requirement that the inspection be performed in the prospective lessee's presence and provides that the inspection may be performed through the use of an electronic device and must verify only that the license is unexpired.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1321	Colorado HB 19-1321 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Dave Williams James Coleman Kevin Priola	8	12	2	2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-31T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b2f6755f-1dab-4398-8745-993312f47e11	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1321	234fe12f324bbc802960990f0bb4fd7b4051979637067788198b359480cdd00f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1321 (2019A) — Electronic Verification Of Identification For A Motor Vehicle Rental

Drivers' licenses - renting or loaning a motor vehicle - use of electronic device for verification of driver's license. Current law prohibits a person from renting a motor vehicle to another person until the prospective lessor of the vehicle has inspected the prospective lessee's driver's license and compared and verified the signature on the license with the prospective lessee's signature in his or her presence. The act removes the requirement that the inspection be performed in the prospective lessee's presence and provides that the inspection may be performed through the use of an electronic device and must verify only that the license is unexpired.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/31/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 58–6 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dave Williams — primary (person)
• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-31T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2f6755f-1dab-4398-8745-993312f47e11. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).