republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-082.md

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Bill	Department Of Military And Veterans Affairs Awards	The act creates the Colorado legion of merit medal, which may be awarded by the department of military and veterans affairs (department) to any person who has rendered service in a clearly exceptional, unprecedented, or superior manner. The act makes changes regarding eligibility and criteria for certain medals awarded by the department and repeals awards that are duplicative of other department or federal awards.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-082	Colorado SB 20-082 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Dennis Hisey Lois Landgraf Nancy Todd Susan Lontine	8	12	2	2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9724b1cc-dd2f-4545-b930-4a7e80a4c608	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-082	3eb836891242eda7ee6b858ce10d780d2ea6307d64bb3e616dc841a96e5c7784	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-082 (2020A) — Department Of Military And Veterans Affairs Awards

The act creates the Colorado legion of merit medal, which may be awarded by the department of military and veterans affairs (department) to any person who has rendered service in a clearly exceptional, unprecedented, or superior manner. The act makes changes regarding eligibility and criteria for certain medals awarded by the department and repeals awards that are duplicative of other department or federal awards.

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 (03/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (01/31/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (02/28/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 61–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
• Lois Landgraf — primary (person)
• Nancy Todd — primary (person)
• Susan Lontine — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-02-25T07:00:00+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/9724b1cc-dd2f-4545-b930-4a7e80a4c608. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).