republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1262.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing Assistance Justice System Transition Money"
description: "Joint Budget Committee. The housing assistance for persons transitioning from the criminal or juvenile justice system cash fund (cash fund), which is administered by the division of housing in the department of local affairs (division), currently includes reversions from unspent general fund appropriations to the division of criminal justice. The bill repeals these reversions. and replaces it with money that the division receives from the department of corrections or the department of human services from amounts the general assembly appropriated to those departments for persons transitioning from the criminal or juvenile justice system. The bill also adds explicit authority for the general assembly to appropriate this money to the departments of corrections and human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1262"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1262 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daneya Esgar", "Dominick Moreno", "Julie McCluskie", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d09091b-9e55-4cf3-9379-552854913db2"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1262"
source_hash: "9fd603a526b18c48ed80a85c2b9f6c8856c40471837a3468f32da61acfbdf3fd"
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 20-1262 (2020A) — Housing Assistance Justice System Transition Money

Joint Budget Committee. The housing assistance for persons transitioning from the criminal or juvenile justice system cash fund (cash fund), which is administered by the division of housing in the department of local affairs (division), currently includes reversions from unspent general fund appropriations to the division of criminal justice. The bill repeals these reversions. and replaces it with money that the division receives from the department of corrections or the department of human services from amounts the general assembly appropriated to those departments for persons transitioning from the criminal or juvenile justice system. The bill also adds explicit authority for the general assembly to appropriate this money to the departments of corrections and human services.

## 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_hb1262_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1262_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1262_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/03/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1262_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1262_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1262_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/27/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1262_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/20/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1262_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **51–10** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 02/10/2020 - No Amendments
- **2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d09091b-9e55-4cf3-9379-552854913db2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).