republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-079.md

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Bill	Method Of Notifying People Of Amber Alerts	Under current law, for an Amber alert, the Colorado bureau of investigation (CBI) sends notice to the federal communication's designated state emergency system broadcaster. Instead, the act requires the CBI to send the alert using technological applications that promote the largest reach of community notifications. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-079	Colorado SB 20-079 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Dennis Hisey Donald Valdez Rhonda Fields	8	12	2	2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/879ecb9d-b3b7-485c-a5cf-1dcf2d86f7af	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-079	2f3e959bda5ef6e45392a78924d4b3a9101629a20941db53e56a3d08ff1e1a18	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-079 (2020A) — Method Of Notifying People Of Amber Alerts

Under current law, for an Amber alert, the Colorado bureau of investigation (CBI) sends notice to the federal communication's designated state emergency system broadcaster. Instead, the act requires the CBI to send the alert using technological applications that promote the largest reach of community notifications. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/30/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/14/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (01/31/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
• Donald Valdez — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+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
• 2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/879ecb9d-b3b7-485c-a5cf-1dcf2d86f7af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).