Spam Reduction Act of 2008 (commercial electronic mail)
Colorado Spam Reduction Act
Marketing
Colorado makes violations of the federal CAN-SPAM Act a state deceptive trade practice and separately bans falsified sender and routing information, unauthorized use of third-party domains, and emailing people who have opted out. Email service providers can sue for statutory damages.
- Where
- Colorado
- Citation
- C.R.S. 6-1-702.5
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2008-08-05
- Enforced by
- Colorado Attorney General and district attorneys; email service providers
- People can sue
- Limited
- Penalties
- Deceptive trade practice (state civil penalties up to $20,000 per violation). Email service providers may recover actual damages, fees, and $1,000 statutory damages per unlawful message, capped at $10 million per defendant per occurrence (6-1-702.5(4)).
- Applies to
- Senders of commercial email in the course of business (6-1-702.5(2))
Practices it requires
- Do not knowingly hide the point-of-origin email address, falsify routing information, or use a third party's domain without consent.C.R.S. 6-1-702.5(2)(b)-(d)
- Honor do-not-email requests and do not pass opted-out addresses to others for commercial email without affirmative consent.C.R.S. 6-1-702.5(2)(e)
Other duties
- Do not violate CAN-SPAM or its rules; doing so is a Colorado deceptive trade practice.C.R.S. 6-1-702.5(2)(a)
Sources
- Official text
- Colorado Revised Statutes 2024, Title 6 (Office of Legislative Legal Services, leg.colorado.gov)
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Research reference, not legal advice.