HB 18-1200

House Bill 18-1200, also known as "Cybercrime Changes," updates Colorado's laws by renaming computer crimes to cybercrimes and adding new offenses such as soliciting minors for prostitution through digital means and tampering with credit card magnetic strips. The bill also adjusts the penalties for these cybercrimes. It affects anyone who uses technology to commit illegal activities, particularly those involving children or financial fraud. Since it has been signed into law, the changes are now in effect and will be funded by the state budget over several fiscal years.

Official Summary

The bill changes the name of the crime computer crime to cybercrime. The bill makes soliciting, arranging, or offering to arrange a situation in which a minor may engage in prostitution, by means of using a computer, computer network, computer system, or any part thereof, a cybercrime. The bill makes stealing the information from a credit card magnetic strip or placing different information on a credit card magnetic strip without permission and with the intent to defraud a cybercrime. The bill makes changes to the penalty structure for cybercrime. The bill makes conforming amendments. The bill appropriates from the general fund to the department of corrections: For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, twenty-two thousand seventy-two dollars; For the 2020-21 state fiscal year, thirty-four thousand six hundred seventy-seven dollars; For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, thirty-nine thousand three hundred thirty-four dollars; and For the 2022-23 state fiscal year, thirty-nine thousand three hundred thirty-four dollars.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More

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