republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-197.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Aligning State And Federal Law On Hemp	The act aligns Colorado statutes on hemp with federal law, including adopting federal definitions; requiring authorized samplers to collect samples from each lot; changing the appointing authority for the industrial hemp advisory committee to the state agricultural commission; requiring that all key participants provide a criminal history record check from the federal bureau of investigation; eliminating authority to grow hemp for research and development purposes but authorizing a separate registration and waiver requirement; creating new reporting requirements; specifying unlawful acts and creating civil penalties for violations; and giving the commissioner of agriculture investigatory and subpoena authority.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-197	Colorado SB 20-197 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Marc Catlin Stephen Fenberg Vicki Marble	10	17	4	2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00	2020-06-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2d124b3a-f3be-49ef-84b3-7c3c881c7620	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-197	8c371b55810f5e6c0e8dd2a0b8e831e7e5a0e66df66dc221833d384045296baa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-197 (2020A) — Aligning State And Federal Law On Hemp

The act aligns Colorado statutes on hemp with federal law, including adopting federal definitions; requiring authorized samplers to collect samples from each lot; changing the appointing authority for the industrial hemp advisory committee to the state agricultural commission; requiring that all key participants provide a criminal history record check from the federal bureau of investigation; eliminating authority to grow hemp for research and development purposes but authorizing a separate registration and waiver requirement; creating new reporting requirements; specifying unlawful acts and creating civil penalties for violations; and giving the commissioner of agriculture investigatory and subpoena authority.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/22/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/09/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (06/02/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (06/05/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/30/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — primary (person)
• Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)
• Vicki Marble — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment introduction
• 2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d124b3a-f3be-49ef-84b3-7c3c881c7620. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).