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type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Motor Vehicle Manufacturer And Dealer"
description: "Preexisting law prohibits, with certain exceptions, a motor vehicle manufacturer from owning, operating, or controlling any motor vehicle dealer or used motor vehicle dealer in Colorado. The act creates a new exception that allows a manufacturer to own, operate, or control a motor vehicle dealer if the manufacturer makes only electric motor vehicles and has no franchised dealers of the same line-make."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-167"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-167 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Hansen", "KC Becker", "Kevin Priola"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fea0bf3-0a3b-4d94-a190-8ab24df6708d"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-167"
source_hash: "a511c70dc9231b6ae67523a35b78c2e55f83fa7eee1712c7eaf0c26a9b8e2083"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---
# Colorado SB 20-167 (2020A) — Electric Motor Vehicle Manufacturer And Dealer
Preexisting law prohibits, with certain exceptions, a motor vehicle manufacturer from owning, operating, or controlling any motor vehicle dealer or used motor vehicle dealer in Colorado. The act creates a new exception that allows a manufacturer to own, operate, or control a motor vehicle dealer if the manufacturer makes only electric motor vehicles and has no franchised dealers of the same line-make.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_sb167_h_ene_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/21/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_167_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/17/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_167_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_167_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_167ene_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_167_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_167_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_167_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (03/23/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_167_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **4220** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **2212** (pass) · upper
- COW * — **1518** (fail) · upper
- REPASS — **2112** (pass) · upper
- AMEND — **322** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **330** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- KC Becker — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`
- **2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-24T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fea0bf3-0a3b-4d94-a190-8ab24df6708d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).