republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-228.md

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Bill	Retail Establishments Accept Cash Enforcement	Colorado law requires retail establishments to accept United States currency. One of the exceptions to the requirement is for security deposits. The act:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-228	Colorado SB 22-228 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Alex Valdez Robert Rodriguez	9	12	2	2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00	2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/77ec5038-9255-4e5f-8e74-acef74a3f8a0	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-228	8cd0d5a5e6c052972eb3f96e4d3022847d7a156d8a3433232f6b350cf29af1ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-228 (2022A) — Retail Establishments Accept Cash Enforcement

Colorado law requires retail establishments to accept United States currency. One of the exceptions to the requirement is for security deposits. The act:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/09/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/05/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/07/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 54–11 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 23–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alex Valdez — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77ec5038-9255-4e5f-8e74-acef74a3f8a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).