republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1188.md

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Bill	Additional Liability Under Respondeat Superior	The act allows a plaintiff to assert direct negligence claims against an employer or principal arising out of the same incident in which the employer or principal admits liability for the tortious actions of its employee or agent.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1188	Colorado HB 21-1188 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Chris Kennedy Julie Gonzales	8	12	2	2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7e54f3e2-0818-4474-9b39-bf0138633bc8	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1188	28cf74d7ab1d1fa2e49729916da14470fcc51a964caadc91bad37903560bed34	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1188 (2021A) — Additional Liability Under Respondeat Superior

The act allows a plaintiff to assert direct negligence claims against an employer or principal arising out of the same incident in which the employer or principal admits liability for the tortious actions of its employee or agent.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/17/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e54f3e2-0818-4474-9b39-bf0138633bc8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).