republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-140.md

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Bill	Powersports And Motor Vehicle Sales Bond Requirement	Preexisting law requires motor vehicle and powersports dealers, salespersons, buyer agents, wholesale auction dealers, business disposers, and wholesalers to have bonds to compensate people for fraud or a violation of the motor vehicle dealer statutes if the violation is designated as recoverable by the motor vehicle dealer board. The act requires the violation to be related to fraud in order for a person to recover from the bond. A person may recover from a bond in an action if the board issues a final agency order with a finding of fraud.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-140	Colorado SB 20-140 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Chris Holbert Jovan Melton	8	16	2	2020-01-27T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/29267d62-b4a0-4d68-b3d8-279df4aa2aef	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-140	54a3d887db2bd0f496744888d32cce2b050fcc010d538c048ed452fe80c5e98c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-140 (2020A) — Powersports And Motor Vehicle Sales Bond Requirement

Preexisting law requires motor vehicle and powersports dealers, salespersons, buyer agents, wholesale auction dealers, business disposers, and wholesalers to have bonds to compensate people for fraud or a violation of the motor vehicle dealer statutes if the violation is designated as recoverable by the motor vehicle dealer board. The act requires the violation to be related to fraud in order for a person to recover from the bond. A person may recover from a bond in an action if the board issues a final agency order with a finding of fraud.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/18/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/27/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/19/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (06/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (06/01/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (07/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 30–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Holbert — primary (person)
• Jovan Melton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 06/01/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/30/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government introduction
• 2020-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29267d62-b4a0-4d68-b3d8-279df4aa2aef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).