republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1204.md

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Bill	Unemployment Insurance Marijuana-licensed Business	Current law states that a common paymaster is not a single employing unit for purposes of considering the services performed by another employing unit subject to a single or common payroll. The act creates an exception for an employee leasing company or other employing entity that is owned by one or more persons who have a medical or retail marijuana license and who own at least 50% of an entity that shares the employee leasing company's or other employing entity's services. The employee leasing company or other employing entity is not considered a common paymaster for the purposes of the "Colorado Employment Security Act".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1204	Colorado HB 21-1204 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Chris Holbert Joann Ginal Marc Snyder	8	12	2	2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1ce92a9c-ba14-40f4-ae9b-bfb127e08540	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1204	a6a5c68cd736d5b5b55c4680a3aeee81d474a6a70645a84b754330fed001035f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1204 (2021A) — Unemployment Insurance Marijuana-licensed Business

Current law states that a common paymaster is not a single employing unit for purposes of considering the services performed by another employing unit subject to a single or common payroll. The act creates an exception for an employee leasing company or other employing entity that is owned by one or more persons who have a medical or retail marijuana license and who own at least 50% of an entity that shares the employee leasing company's or other employing entity's services. The employee leasing company or other employing entity is not considered a common paymaster for the purposes of the "Colorado Employment Security Act".(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 (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 50–14 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Holbert — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Marc Snyder — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 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 - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ce92a9c-ba14-40f4-ae9b-bfb127e08540. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).