Colorado Code
Part 3 - Colorado Civil Rights Division - Commission - Procedures
§ 24-34-301. Definitions

As used in parts 3 to 8 of this article 34, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1.1) "Agency" or "state agency" means any board, bureau, commission, department, institution, division, section, or officer of the state.
(1.5) "Commission" means the Colorado civil rights commission created in section 24-34-303.
(1.6) "Commissioner" means a member of the Colorado civil rights commission.

(2.5) "Disability" has the same meaning as set forth in the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990", 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq., and its related amendments and implementing regulations.

(3.3) "Gender expression" means an individual's way of reflecting and expressing the individual's gender to the outside world, typically demonstrated through appearance, dress, and behavior.
(3.5) "Gender identity" means an individual's innate sense of the individual's own gender, which may or may not correspond with the individual's sex assigned at birth.

(4.2) "Housing accommodations" means any real property or portion thereof that is used or occupied, or intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more persons but does not include any single family residence, the occupants of which rent, lease, or furnish for compensation not more than one room in that residence.
(4.5) "Marital status" means a relationship or a spousal status of an individual, including but not limited to being single, cohabitating, engaged, widowed, married, in a civil union, or legally separated, or a relationship or a spousal status of an individual who has had or is in the process of having a marriage or civil union dissolved or declared invalid.

(5.1) "Place of public accommodation" or "public accommodation" has the same meaning as set forth in Title III of the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990", 42 U.S.C. sec. 12181 (7), and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
(5.3) "Protective hairstyle" includes such hairstyles as braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, Bantu knots, Afros, and headwraps.
(5.4) "Public entity" means:

(5.5) "Public transportation service" means a common carrier of passengers or any other means of public conveyance or modes of transportation, including but not limited to airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, streetcars, boats, or taxis.
(5.6) "Qualified individual with a disability" or "individual with a disability" has the same meaning as set forth in the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990", 42 U.S.C. sec. 12131, and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
(5.8) "Race" includes hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle that is commonly or historically associated with race.

(6.5) "Service animal" has the same meaning as set forth in the implementing regulations of Title II and Title III of the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990", 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq.

Source: L. 79: Entire part R&RE, p. 923, § 3, effective July 1. L. 86: (1) R&RE and (1.5) and (1.6) added, p. 930, §§ 1, 2, effective May 8. L. 89: (4) amended, p. 1037, § 1, effective July 1. L. 90: (5) amended, p. 447, § 13, effective April 18. L. 92: (4)(b)(I) amended, p. 1121, § 1, effective July 1. L. 93: (2.5) added and (4) amended, p. 1655, § 59, effective July 1. L. 2008: (7) added, p. 1593, § 2, effective May 29. L. 2013: (4.5) added, (SB 13-011), ch. 49, p. 168, § 26, effective May 1; (1) amended, (HB 13-1136), ch. 168, p. 554, § 3, effective August 7. L. 2014: Entire section amended, (SB 14-118), ch. 250, p. 974, § 1, effective August 6. L. 2020: IP and (5.3) amended and (5.1) and (5.8) added, (HB 20-1048), ch. 8, p. 19, § 10, effective September 14. L. 2021: (5.4) amended, (HB 21-1110), ch. 402, p. 2675, § 1, effective June 30; (3.3) and (3.5) added and (5)(b) and (7) amended, (HB 21-1108), ch. 156, p. 883, § 2, effective September 7.
Cross references: (1) For the legislative declaration contained in the 2008 act enacting subsection (7), see section 1 of chapter 341, Session Laws of Colorado 2008.
(2) For the short title ("Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2020" or "CROWN Act of 2020") and the legislative declaration in HB 20-1048, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 8, Session Laws of Colorado 2020.
(3) For the legislative declaration in HB 21-1108, see section 1 of chapter 156, Session Laws of Colorado 2021.