republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1013.md

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Bill	Specify Procedure Ratify Defective Corporate Actions	The act provides a statutory procedure for the ratification or validation of corporate actions that may not have been properly authorized and for shares that may not have been properly issued. The statutory ratification procedure supplements common-law ratification and is available only when the board of directors specifies the nature of the defective authorization. Prompt judicial review and validation of the ratification process is available when a listed person claims to be substantially and adversely affected by the ratification.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1013	Colorado HB 20-1013 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Marc Snyder Pete Lee	8	13	2	2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6ad6fb5e-374f-4b20-b88f-2472aefee849	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1013	10e03c7156061ad13ac2ef550b1db789609fff66eead65c001b352837ae5cf0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1013 (2020A) — Specify Procedure Ratify Defective Corporate Actions

The act provides a statutory procedure for the ratification or validation of corporate actions that may not have been properly authorized and for shares that may not have been properly issued. The statutory ratification procedure supplements common-law ratification and is available only when the board of directors specifies the nature of the defective authorization. Prompt judicial review and validation of the ratification process is available when a listed person claims to be substantially and adversely affected by the ratification.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/14/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Marc Snyder — primary (person)
• Pete Lee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-02-26T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ad6fb5e-374f-4b20-b88f-2472aefee849. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).