Second Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 12-0572.01 Kate Meyer x4348     HOUSE BILL 12-1128
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Miklosi,
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a prohibition on discrimination in places of
            public accommodation that is based on unconventional
            attire.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill adds "unconventional attire" as grounds on which
       discrimination in places of public accommodation may not be based.
       "Unconventional attire" means dress that indicates a person's participation
       in motorcycling or status as a veteran.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-34-601, amend
       (2) as follows:
            24-34-601.  Discrimination in places of public accommodation
       - definitions. (2) (a)  It is a discriminatory practice and unlawful for a
       person, directly or indirectly, to refuse, withhold from, or deny to an
       individual or a group, because of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual
       orientation, marital status, national origin, or ancestry, or
       unconventional attire, the full and equal enjoyment of the goods,
       services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place
       of public accommodation or, directly or indirectly, to publish, circulate,
       issue, display, post, or mail any written, electronic, or printed
       communication, notice, or advertisement that indicates that the full and
       equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages,
       or accommodations of a place of public accommodation will be refused,
       withheld from, or denied an individual or that an individual's patronage
       or presence at a place of public accommodation is unwelcome,
       objectionable, unacceptable, or undesirable because of disability, race,
       creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or
       ancestry, or unconventional attire.
            (b)  As used in this subsection (2), "unconventional attire"
       means dress that indicates participation in motorcycling,
       including membership in a particular motorcycling organization
       or club, or status as a veteran.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.