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type: "Bill"
title: "Powersports And Motor Vehicle Sales Bond Requirement"
description: "Preexisting law requires motor vehicle and powersports dealers, salespersons, buyer agents, wholesale auction dealers, business disposers, and wholesalers to have bonds to compensate people for fraud or a violation of the motor vehicle dealer statutes if the violation is designated as recoverable by the motor vehicle dealer board. The act requires the violation to be related to fraud in order for a person to recover from the bond. A person may recover from a bond in an action if the board issues a final agency order with a finding of fraud."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-140"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-140 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Holbert", "Jovan Melton"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-27T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29267d62-b4a0-4d68-b3d8-279df4aa2aef"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-140"
source_hash: "54a3d887db2bd0f496744888d32cce2b050fcc010d538c048ed452fe80c5e98c"
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 20-140 (2020A) — Powersports And Motor Vehicle Sales Bond Requirement
Preexisting law requires motor vehicle and powersports dealers, salespersons, buyer agents, wholesale auction dealers, business disposers, and wholesalers to have bonds to compensate people for fraud or a violation of the motor vehicle dealer statutes if the violation is designated as recoverable by the motor vehicle dealer board. The act requires the violation to be related to fraud in order for a person to recover from the bond. A person may recover from a bond in an action if the board issues a final agency order with a finding of fraud.
## 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_sb140_h_tlg_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/18/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_140_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_140_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/27/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_140_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/19/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_140_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (06/03/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_140_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (06/01/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_140_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (07/02/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_140_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **640** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **304** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chris Holbert — primary (person)
- Jovan Melton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-07-02T06:00:00+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
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 06/01/2020 - No Amendments
- **2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/30/2020 - No Amendments
- **2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`
- **2020-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29267d62-b4a0-4d68-b3d8-279df4aa2aef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).