republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-009.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recertification And Theft Of Catalytic Converters"
description: "Current law requires every owner, keeper, or proprietor of a junk shop, junk store, salvage yard, or junk cart or other vehicle and every collector of or dealer in junk, salvage, or other secondhand property to keep a book or register detailing all transactions involving commodity metals and to comply with certain other requirements concerning transactions involving commodity metals. Current law also establishes the commodity metals theft task force (task force) and charges the task force with certain duties to address the theft of commodity metals. The act extends the scope of the current laws addressing commodity metal theft to include theft of catalytic converters. The act also expands the scope of the duties of the task force to include consideration of catalytic converter theft."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-009"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-009 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adrienne Benavidez", "Dennis Hisey", "Joann Ginal", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f5c93a7-3271-4e90-9db5-d7d2bb9c2998"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-009"
source_hash: "86a82587a3a9c536e4b3832f50db9b993ca9465b256f89355b2e0e41acfe9b54"
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 22-009 (2022A) — Recertification And Theft Of Catalytic Converters

Current law requires every owner, keeper, or proprietor of a junk shop, junk store, salvage yard, or junk cart or other vehicle and every collector of or dealer in junk, salvage, or other secondhand property to keep a book or register detailing all transactions involving commodity metals and to comply with certain other requirements concerning transactions involving commodity metals. Current law also establishes the commodity metals theft task force (task force) and charges the task force with certain duties to address the theft of commodity metals. The act extends the scope of the current laws addressing commodity metal theft to include theft of catalytic converters. The act also expands the scope of the duties of the task force to include consideration of catalytic converter theft.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_clsb009_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009stra_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009_h_ene_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_009_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_009_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- NOT CONCUR APPT CC — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **55–10** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **53–9** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adrienne Benavidez — primary (person)
- Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`
- **2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f5c93a7-3271-4e90-9db5-d7d2bb9c2998`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).