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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Increasing Number Of District Court Judges"
+description: "District court judges - increases - outreach position - reports - appropriation. The act increases by one the number of district court judges in the first, eighth, tenth, thirteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first judicial districts; by 2 in the fourth and nineteenth judicial districts; and by 4 in the second judicial district."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2019A"
+identifier: "SB 19-043"
+citation: "Colorado SB 19-043 (2019A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Leslie Herod", "Pete Lee", "Terri Carver"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52fd4f63-6510-4ddf-92dc-d997530afab5"
+source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-043"
+source_hash: "591a37490b993f551e3ed67f25f77a50c09b095bc5642dea7c3c7efa1428abad"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
+---
+
+# Colorado SB 19-043 (2019A) — Increasing Number Of District Court Judges
+
+District court judges - increases - outreach position - reports - appropriation. The act increases by one the number of district court judges in the first, eighth, tenth, thirteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first judicial districts; by 2 in the fourth and nineteenth judicial districts; and by 4 in the second judicial district.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_sb043_h_app_004.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (02/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (03/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (02/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043sapp_01.pdf)
+6. **PA2 (02/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043jud_01.pdf)
+7. **PA3 (02/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043app.pdf)
+8. **Reengrossed (02/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_ren.pdf)
+9. **Rerevised (02/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_rer.pdf)
+10. **Revised (02/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_rev.pdf)
+11. **Signed Act (03/21/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_043_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **61–3** (pass) · upper
+- REPASS — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
+- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
+- Pete Lee — primary (person)
+- Terri Carver — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
+- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2019-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations `introduction`
+- **2019-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
+- **2019-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52fd4f63-6510-4ddf-92dc-d997530afab5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+