republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1143.md

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Bill	Environmental Justice And Projects Increase Environmental Fines	Current state law sets the maximum civil fine for most air quality violations at $15,000 per day and most water quality violations at $10,000 per day, but federal law allows the federal environmental protection agency to assess higher maximum daily fines per violation. Sections 1 and 2 of the act raise the maximum fine to $47,357 per day for air quality violations and $54,833 per day for water quality violations and direct the air quality control commission and the water quality control commission in the department of public health and environment to annually adjust the maximum fine based on changes in the consumer price index. Section 2 also extends the repeal date for the water quality improvement fund to September 1, 2025.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1143	Colorado HB 20-1143 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Dominique Jackson Faith Winter Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	10	15	2	2020-01-17T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e383eaa2-af3a-42b3-a9ca-13d086f6d3e6	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1143	afe90bdfa6295fbb06cbe26ca618b929cb300b3c90af91712e1699aa91e097fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1143 (2020A) — Environmental Justice And Projects Increase Environmental Fines

Current state law sets the maximum civil fine for most air quality violations at $15,000 per day and most water quality violations at $10,000 per day, but federal law allows the federal environmental protection agency to assess higher maximum daily fines per violation. Sections 1 and 2 of the act raise the maximum fine to $47,357 per day for air quality violations and $54,833 per day for water quality violations and direct the air quality control commission and the water quality control commission in the department of public health and environment to annually adjust the maximum fine based on changes in the consumer price index. Section 2 also extends the repeal date for the water quality improvement fund to September 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/17/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (06/05/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/09/2020) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (07/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dominique Jackson — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2020-01-17T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment + Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e383eaa2-af3a-42b3-a9ca-13d086f6d3e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).