republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1048.md

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Bill	Retail Business Must Accept Cash	The act requires retail establishments that offer goods or services to accept United States currency (cash) to purchase the goods or services, but does not apply to:Establishments that do not have an individual accepting payment in person;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1048	Colorado HB 21-1048 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Alex Valdez Robert Rodriguez	10	15	4	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/62ae2ab2-7a9f-4579-bef6-4229537efd5c	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1048	d632148ef447bce913e12e60b2db7eac01e9f8431a832cb3972d878055e7cee6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1048 (2021A) — Retail Business Must Accept Cash

The act requires retail establishments that offer goods or services to accept United States currency (cash) to purchase the goods or services, but does not apply to:Establishments that do not have an individual accepting payment in person;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 58–6 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 45–19 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 47–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Valdez — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62ae2ab2-7a9f-4579-bef6-4229537efd5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).