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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Offenses Committed Against A Deceased Human Body"
description: "The act changes the penalty for abuse of a corpse to a class 6 felony."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1148"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1148 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Jonathan Singer", "Matt Soper", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-17T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-04-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c479bb59-fd97-406c-9499-7319dba86f57"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1148"
source_hash: "cf7d61a17521dcf05da6537a40589cdf5d6a7ec15359b839b319d0e74832f7ab"
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 HB 20-1148 (2020A) — Offenses Committed Against A Deceased Human Body
The act changes the penalty for abuse of a corpse to a class 6 felony.
## 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_hb1148_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1148_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/17/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1148_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/17/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1148_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1148_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1148_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1148_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/01/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1148_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- REPASS — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2020-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c479bb59-fd97-406c-9499-7319dba86f57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).