republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-211.md

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Bill	Limitations On Extraordinary Collection Actions	The act prohibits a judgment creditor from initiating a new extraordinary collection action from the effective date of the act through November 1, 2020, except in accordance with the requirements of the act. An extraordinary collection action is defined as an action in the nature of a garnishment, attachment, levy, or execution to collect or enforce a judgment on a debt as defined under the "Colorado Fair Debt Collection Practices Act" (FDCPA). Before initiating an extraordinary collection action, the judgment creditor must send a notice to the judgment debtor explaining that the judgment debtor can temporarily suspend the extraordinary collection action if the debtor is facing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 emergency. To exercise this right, the debtor is required to notify the judgment creditor that the debtor is experiencing hardship as a result of the crisis. The judgment debtor is not required to provide additional documentation to the judgment creditor.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-211	Colorado SB 20-211 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Julie Gonzales Leslie Herod	9	16	4	2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00	2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b63dc5e3-c2e7-4dab-99e4-e305d86cbbce	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-211	7af55fe60b2b5727e9008c80a705c8c615a7591089e176b0d0dbf4afdd505a23	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-211 (2020A) — Limitations On Extraordinary Collection Actions

The act prohibits a judgment creditor from initiating a new extraordinary collection action from the effective date of the act through November 1, 2020, except in accordance with the requirements of the act. An extraordinary collection action is defined as an action in the nature of a garnishment, attachment, levy, or execution to collect or enforce a judgment on a debt as defined under the "Colorado Fair Debt Collection Practices Act" (FDCPA). Before initiating an extraordinary collection action, the judgment creditor must send a notice to the judgment debtor explaining that the judgment debtor can temporarily suspend the extraordinary collection action if the debtor is facing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 emergency. To exercise this right, the debtor is required to notify the judgment creditor that the debtor is experiencing hardship as a result of the crisis. The judgment debtor is not required to provide additional documentation to the judgment creditor.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/06/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/19/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (06/01/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (06/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (06/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 15–19 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations introduction
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b63dc5e3-c2e7-4dab-99e4-e305d86cbbce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).