republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-135.md

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Bill	Prohibit Certain Animals In Traveling Animal Act	The act creates the "Traveling Animal Protection Act" (Act), which prohibits a person from causing the performance of specified animals, such as whales, dolphins, wild cats, marsupials, nonhuman primates, rhinoceroses, seals, elephants, large birds, penguins, and bears, in a traveling animal act. The Act exempts the use of livestock and alternative livestock.The Act also exempts the use of the specified animals by or at:Wildlife sanctuaries;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-135	Colorado SB 21-135 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Joann Ginal Meg Froelich Monica Duran Rachel Zenzinger	10	19	8	2021-02-26T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cc8edb3a-8519-4e95-b347-53506a83454e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-135	7caaefa33044705c9176f90e03d080cfa37dc93cb5e4f0562dfd4556aa149a89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-135 (2021A) — Prohibit Certain Animals In Traveling Animal Act

The act creates the "Traveling Animal Protection Act" (Act), which prohibits a person from causing the performance of specified animals, such as whales, dolphins, wild cats, marsupials, nonhuman primates, rhinoceroses, seals, elephants, large birds, penguins, and bears, in a traveling animal act. The Act exempts the use of livestock and alternative livestock.The Act also exempts the use of the specified animals by or at:Wildlife sanctuaries;

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 (05/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• NOT CONCUR APPT CC — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT — 40–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CCR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 39–24 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 39–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)
• Monica Duran — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Water Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Water introduction
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-26T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc8edb3a-8519-4e95-b347-53506a83454e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).