republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1095.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing Protections for Minor Workers"
description: "Beginning January 1, 2025, the act increases penalties for violations of the \"Colorado Youth Employment Opportunity Act of 1971\" (CYEOA) and requires that the monetary penalties collected be deposited into the wage theft enforcement fund. Entities that violate CYEOA must also pay specified damages to the individual who is aggrieved. The act eliminates a provision in current law penalizing a person, having legal responsibility for a minor, who knowingly permits the minor to be employed in violation of CYEOA."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1095"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1095 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Judy Amabile", "Sheila Lieder", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7de4a42-42a3-4194-a287-af12edf1a994"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1095"
source_hash: "307b31abcf14d034aedbef480ef7e42e2b4223b1ca5c852cfdeb32659bc9afce"
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 HB 24-1095 (2024A) — Increasing Protections for Minor Workers

Beginning January 1, 2025, the act increases penalties for violations of the "Colorado Youth Employment Opportunity Act of 1971" (CYEOA) and requires that the monetary penalties collected be deposited into the wage theft enforcement fund. Entities that violate CYEOA must also pay specified damages to the individual who is aggrieved. The act eliminates a provision in current law penalizing a person, having legal responsibility for a minor, who knowingly permits the minor to be employed in violation of CYEOA.

## 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/2024a_hb1095_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_h_bus_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_h_bus_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1095_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1095_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **46–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Sheila Lieder — primary (person)
- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7de4a42-42a3-4194-a287-af12edf1a994`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).