HB 1025: Exempt Auctioneers Charitable Solicitation Requirements - Colorado

Rerevised → Final Act · 4 edits · Mar 17, 2026

MODERATE

The bill was finalized and signed into law, updating the Colorado Charitable Solicitations Act to explicitly exempt auctioneers from registration and bonding requirements. The text was cleaned of markup symbols and formatting errors to reflect the final legal language.

Scope change

The bill's scope is now formally established as an exemption for specific individuals providing auctioneer services to charitable organizations, provided they do not handle donations directly.

DEFINITION

Added a new definition (7)(i) that excludes auctioneers from the 'paid solicitor' category if they are contracted or volunteering and do not directly receive or handle charitable contributions.

TECHNICAL

Removed all legislative markup symbols (such as dashes for deletions and bold/italics for additions) and standardized the text to reflect the final enacted version.

Removed the 'Bill Summary' section and preliminary reading dates, as these are no longer needed in the final act.

TIMELINE

Added a specific effective date provision stating the law takes effect on August 12, 2026, unless a referendum petition is filed.

Revised → Rerevised · 3 edits · Mar 10, 2026

MINOR

The bill was re-revised to include additional Senate sponsors and updated the header to reflect that it is now at the 3rd Reading stage. The most significant substantive change is the removal of a detailed clause regarding auctioneers who volunteer their services to charitable organizations without handling funds, simplifying the rules for who qualifies as an auctioneer in this context.

Scope change

The bill's scope regarding auctioneer eligibility was narrowed by removing specific provisions for unpaid volunteer auctioneers.

TECHNICAL

Added four new Senate sponsors (Amabile, Bright, Carson, Catlin, Coleman, Frizell, Kirkmeyer, Liston, Pelton B., Rich, Snyder, Zamora Wilson) to the bill's sponsorship list.

TIMELINE

Updated the header to indicate the bill is now at the 3rd Reading stage in the Senate, dated March 10, 2026.

ELIGIBILITY

Deleted a specific provision that defined an individual as an auctioneer if they volunteered services to a charitable organization without compensation and did not handle contributions, effectively removing this specific volunteer scenario from the bill's text.

Reengrossed → Revised · 5 edits · Mar 9, 2026

MODERATE

The bill was reclassified from 'Reengrossed' to 'Revised' to reflect amendments adopted during the second reading in the Senate. The Senate sponsorship was updated to include a new co-sponsor, and the bill's title was expanded to explicitly mention 'Charitable Solicitations Act' for clarity. A section regarding the bill's effective date and petition process was removed, while formatting and reading status labels were adjusted to match the current legislative stage.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on exempting auctioneers from certain requirements of the Colorado Charitable Solicitations Act, but the text now explicitly references the specific act name in the title for greater clarity.

TECHNICAL

The bill status label was changed from 'Reengrossed' to 'Revised' to indicate it includes amendments adopted in the second house.

Reading status labels were updated to reflect the bill's progression to the 2nd and 3rd readings in the Senate.

ELIGIBILITY

Senate sponsorship was updated to add Pelton R. as a co-sponsor alongside Roberts.

REQUIREMENT

The bill title was expanded to explicitly state it concerns an exemption from the 'Colorado Charitable Solicitations Act'.

TIMELINE

The section detailing the effective date (90 days after adjournment) and the petition process was removed from this version.

Engrossed → Reengrossed · 3 edits · Feb 18, 2026

MINOR

The bill was reengrossed to include additional co-sponsors and updated the bill summary to reflect that it has passed the third reading without amendments. The most significant substantive change is the removal of a section detailing the referendum process, which previously explained how citizens could vote to repeal parts of the bill if filed within a specific timeframe after the session adjourns.

Scope change

The bill's scope regarding public referendum procedures was reduced by removing the text that outlined the conditions and timeline for a citizen-initiated referendum petition.

TIMELINE

Deleted the text specifying the ninety-day period after final adjournment during which a referendum petition could be filed against the act.

TECHNICAL

Added multiple new co-sponsors to the House sponsorship list.

Updated the bill summary header to indicate the bill is 'Reengrossed' and includes amendments adopted in the House of Introduction.

Introduced → Engrossed · 4 edits · Feb 17, 2026

MODERATE

The bill was updated from an 'Introduced' draft to an 'Engrossed' version, indicating it has passed the House and includes all amendments. The text was reorganized to include a summary of changes at the top and updated the bill number formatting. Substantively, the definition of a 'paid solicitor' was slightly refined to clarify that auctioneers volunteering without compensation are exempt, and the term 'monetary donations' was changed to 'contributions' to align with the Act's terminology. The effective date and referendum petition procedures remain unchanged.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain effectively the same, though the definition of a 'paid solicitor' was clarified to explicitly include auctioneers volunteering without compensation as an exempt category.

DEFINITION

The definition of 'paid solicitor' was updated to explicitly state that auctioneers who volunteer their services without compensation are not considered paid solicitors.

The phrase 'monetary donations' was changed to 'contributions' in the definition of a paid solicitor to ensure consistency with the rest of the Act.

TECHNICAL

A summary block was added at the beginning of the document to list the date of amendment and the fact that this version includes all House amendments.

The bill number formatting was updated to remove the 'HB' prefix in the page headers and footers, displaying only the number '1025'.

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