republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-200.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Implementation Of CO Colorado Secure Savings Program"
description: "In 2019, the general assembly created the Colorado secure savings board (board) in the office of the state treasurer to study the costs to the state of insufficient retirement savings and 3 approaches to increasing retirement savings in Colorado. The board found that a state-facilitated automatic enrollment individual retirement account program is the best option for Colorado and recommended the establishment of such a program, coupled with the greater use of financial education tools in the state. In furtherance of the board's recommendation, the act directs the board to create and implement the Colorado secure savings program (program)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-200"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-200 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brittany Pettersen", "KC Becker", "Kerry Donovan", "Tracy Kraft-Tharp"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7943b461-fc13-4c3a-9f5e-845eed793cb4"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-200"
source_hash: "26090b22fe644728905a7825182b8e197965e5ae7644c8983baa7c3488d8dbbe"
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 20-200 (2020A) — Implementation Of CO Colorado Secure Savings Program

In 2019, the general assembly created the Colorado secure savings board (board) in the office of the state treasurer to study the costs to the state of insufficient retirement savings and 3 approaches to increasing retirement savings in Colorado. The board found that a state-facilitated automatic enrollment individual retirement account program is the best option for Colorado and recommended the establishment of such a program, coupled with the greater use of financial education tools in the state. In furtherance of the board's recommendation, the act directs the board to create and implement the Colorado secure savings program (program).

## 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_sb200_h_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (06/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/22/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (06/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200sapp_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200sa_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (06/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (06/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_200_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (07/14/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_200_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–24** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **15–19** (fail) · upper
- BILL — **18–15** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **19–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
- KC Becker — primary (person)
- Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
- Tracy Kraft-Tharp — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-14T06:00:00+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 Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Appropriations `introduction`
- **2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7943b461-fc13-4c3a-9f5e-845eed793cb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).