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Colorado · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 25-126: Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 25-126 is a bill introduced in the Colorado Senate on February 5, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act. Primary sponsor: Cecelia Espenoza (Democratic), Marc Snyder (Democratic). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 4, 2025): Governor Signed.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

The act enacts the "Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act", drafted by the Uniform Law Commission. The act: Requires a person filing a pre-merger notification with the federal government under the federal "Hart-Scott-Rodino Act" that has its principal place of business in the state or directly or indirectly has annual net sales in the state of at least 20% of the filing threshold to contemporaneously file with the state attorney general complete electronic copies of the Hart-Scott-Rodino form and any additional documentary material that the person filed with the pre-merger notification; Requires the attorney general to keep the filed form and documentary material confidential, subject to specified exceptions; and Authorizes the attorney general to impose a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 per day of noncompliance on any person that fails to comply with the filing requirement. For the 2025-26 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $68,052 from the general fund to the department of law to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 10

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Cecelia EspenozaPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse4
Marc SnyderPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate12
Lisa CutterCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate20
Monica DuranCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse23
Nick HinrichsenCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate3
Iman JodehCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate29
Javier MabreyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse1
Emily SirotaCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse9
Mike WeissmanCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate28
Yara ZokaieCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse52

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Governor Signed
  2. Sent to the Governor
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the Speaker of the House
  5. House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
  6. House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
  7. House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
  8. House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations
  9. Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
  10. Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
  11. Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee
  12. Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole

Showing 12 most recent of 14 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source