republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-090.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Limit Liability For Food Donations To Nonprofits"
description: "Correctional facilities, school districts, hospitals, and retail food establishments are encouraged to donate apparently wholesome food to local nonprofit organizations for distribution to needy or poor individuals. Correctional facilities, school districts, and hospitals that donate items of food to nonprofit organizations are provided limited immunity from civil and criminal liability, which limited immunity state law already provided to donor retail food establishments. The immunity does not apply to willful, wanton, or reckless acts of donors that result in injury to recipients of the donated foods."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-090"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-090 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brianna Titone", "Daneya Esgar", "Faith Winter"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/491b637d-f60b-45bd-82e4-b5fbd1222a33"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-090"
source_hash: "1a366066fb57362bf7e6c83a19c4abb48b952d2861efc438880c9119d76c747e"
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 SB 20-090 (2020A) — Limit Liability For Food Donations To Nonprofits

Correctional facilities, school districts, hospitals, and retail food establishments are encouraged to donate apparently wholesome food to local nonprofit organizations for distribution to needy or poor individuals. Correctional facilities, school districts, and hospitals that donate items of food to nonprofit organizations are provided limited immunity from civil and criminal liability, which limited immunity state law already provided to donor retail food establishments. The immunity does not apply to willful, wanton, or reckless acts of donors that result in injury to recipients of the donated foods.

## 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_sb090_h_ene_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/03/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/30/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090ssta_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090ene_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (06/03/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (06/01/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_090_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/26/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_090_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brianna Titone — primary (person)
- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 06/01/2020 - No Amendments
- **2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`
- **2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-03T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2020-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/491b637d-f60b-45bd-82e4-b5fbd1222a33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).