republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-002.md

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Bill	Extending Limitations On Debt Collection Actions	The act extends the time in which debtors experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 emergency may have extraordinary debt collection actions suspended. Existing law required a judgment creditor (creditor) to provide a notice to a judgment debtor (debtor) before instituting an extraordinary debt collection action, which includes an action in the nature of a garnishment, attachment, levy, or execution to collect or enforce a judgment. The debtor may suspend the collection action by notifying the creditor that the debtor is experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. The obligation to provide notice and the suspension of the collection action were effective through February 1, 2021. The act extends the effective period for the notice and the suspension to June 1, 2021. If a collection action has already been suspended by the debtor, the suspension is now effective through June 1, 2021.In addition, under existing law, up to $4,000 cumulative in a depository account or accounts in a debtor's name is exempt from levy and sale under a writ of attachment or execution through February 1, 2021. The act extends that date to June 1, 2021.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-002	Colorado SB 21-002 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Julie Gonzales Leslie Herod	11	13	2	2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00	2021-01-21T07:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/79ad4706-fa98-4795-90f3-dbfaf0b8b1f6	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-002	259113a923172acc98ebee0c49e35859e73b2e9c769220542c7e95dfb3ca5dc8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-002 (2021A) — Extending Limitations On Debt Collection Actions

The act extends the time in which debtors experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 emergency may have extraordinary debt collection actions suspended. Existing law required a judgment creditor (creditor) to provide a notice to a judgment debtor (debtor) before instituting an extraordinary debt collection action, which includes an action in the nature of a garnishment, attachment, levy, or execution to collect or enforce a judgment. The debtor may suspend the collection action by notifying the creditor that the debtor is experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. The obligation to provide notice and the suspension of the collection action were effective through February 1, 2021. The act extends the effective period for the notice and the suspension to June 1, 2021. If a collection action has already been suspended by the debtor, the suspension is now effective through June 1, 2021.In addition, under existing law, up to $4,000 cumulative in a depository account or accounts in a debtor's name is exempt from levy and sale under a writ of attachment or execution through February 1, 2021. The act extends that date to June 1, 2021.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.001 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (01/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (01/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (01/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (01/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA2 (03/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (01/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (01/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (01/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (01/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 44–20 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-21T07:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-01-15T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-01-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-13T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79ad4706-fa98-4795-90f3-dbfaf0b8b1f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).