republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-222.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Use CARES Act Money Small Business Grant Program	The act creates a small business COVID-19 grant program, financed by $20 million from the federal money allocated to the state pursuant to the federal "Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act", also referred to as the "CARES Act". The Colorado office of economic development (office) will administer the grant program and the Colorado economic development commission will contract with the Colorado housing and finance authority (CHFA) to operate the grant program. CHFA will work with nonprofit or community-based lenders that will underwrite and distribute the grants to small businesses pursuant to the program.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-222	Colorado SB 20-222 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Jeff Bridges Mary Young Perry Will	10	15	4	2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00	2020-06-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/67cb9943-036d-422f-80e6-b4d837e10542	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-222	87228eca615d1b3ac65fd5931d211134f9c0e4a0cb0677602225929e311f8ee9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-222 (2020A) — Use CARES Act Money Small Business Grant Program

The act creates a small business COVID-19 grant program, financed by $20 million from the federal money allocated to the state pursuant to the federal "Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act", also referred to as the "CARES Act". The Colorado office of economic development (office) will administer the grant program and the Colorado economic development commission will contract with the Colorado housing and finance authority (CHFA) to operate the grant program. CHFA will work with nonprofit or community-based lenders that will underwrite and distribute the grants to small businesses pursuant to the program.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/19/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (06/09/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (06/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/23/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Mary Young — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-23T06:00:00+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
• 2020-06-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67cb9943-036d-422f-80e6-b4d837e10542. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).