republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1353.md

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Bill	Firearms Dealer Requirements & Permit	The act requires a firearms dealer (dealer), beginning July 1, 2025, to obtain a state firearms dealer permit (state permit) in order to engage in the business of dealing in firearms other than destructive devices in Colorado. Engaging in the business of dealing in firearms other than destructive devices without a permit is an unclassified felony, punishable by a fine of up to $250,000.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1353	Colorado HB 24-1353 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Andrew Boesenecker Dafna Michaelson Jenet Emily Sirota Jeff Bridges	11	15	3	2024-02-29T07:00:00+00:00	2024-06-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/210d2fe1-b711-439e-9a64-932e2fb07d76	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1353	bd9351ae2a5cbed4f5272c221de706560422edaad8b5f490fdd6c47113f830dc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1353 (2024A) — Firearms Dealer Requirements & Permit

The act requires a firearms dealer (dealer), beginning July 1, 2025, to obtain a state firearms dealer permit (state permit) in order to engage in the business of dealing in firearms other than destructive devices in Colorado. Engaging in the business of dealing in firearms other than destructive devices without a permit is an unclassified felony, punishable by a fine of up to $250,000.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/28/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/29/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/28/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/09/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/17/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/20/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/07/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/06/2024) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/07/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 17–43 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 40–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 21–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Andrew Boesenecker — primary (person)
• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-28T06:00:00+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
• 2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2024-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/210d2fe1-b711-439e-9a64-932e2fb07d76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).