republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1297.md

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Bill	Immunization Status And Child Abuse Neglect	The act adds language to Colorado's children's code to clarify that refusing an immunization on the grounds of medical, religious, or personal belief considerations or opting to exclude immunization notification information from the immunization tracking system does not alone constitute child abuse or neglect.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1297	Colorado HB 20-1297 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Jonathan Singer Mark Baisley Paul Lundeen	9	13	3	2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-10T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f386431a-28c0-427b-a712-d07dfa7653ca	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1297	50795ab987d50707730f29d1452b9a0526e93e47f02c146fb3c3d05a85c081a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1297 (2020A) — Immunization Status And Child Abuse Neglect

The act adds language to Colorado's children's code to clarify that refusing an immunization on the grounds of medical, religious, or personal belief considerations or opting to exclude immunization notification information from the immunization tracking system does not alone constitute child abuse or neglect.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/26/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (06/09/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/15/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (07/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 61–2 (pass) · lower
• PERM — 22–41 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
• Mark Baisley — primary (person)
• Paul Lundeen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-10T06:00:00+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
• 2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 12/31/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f386431a-28c0-427b-a712-d07dfa7653ca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).