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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Voting Rights For Voters With Disabilities"
+description: "Notice and preparation for elections - accessibility for voters with disabilities - independent and private marking of ballot - electronic voting device - appropriation. The secretary of state is required to establish procedures to enable a voter with a disability to independently and privately mark a ballot or use an electronic voting device that produces a paper record using nonvisual access, low vision access, or other assistive technology in order for the voter to vote in a mail ballot election. The secretary of state is required to include in the procedures a method by which a voter with a disability may request such a ballot."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2019A"
+identifier: "SB 19-202"
+citation: "Colorado SB 19-202 (2019A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "Meg Froelich", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5d981a2-48da-4a36-8b5f-5ef3b778c32f"
+source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-202"
+source_hash: "4436794aaa627ab96bd6a7fa8915121a1efa173eb7655a3d2f9149c6806bf106"
+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 19-202 (2019A) — Voting Rights For Voters With Disabilities
+
+Notice and preparation for elections - accessibility for voters with disabilities - independent and private marking of ballot - electronic voting device - appropriation. The secretary of state is required to establish procedures to enable a voter with a disability to independently and privately mark a ballot or use an electronic voting device that produces a paper record using nonvisual access, low vision access, or other assistive technology in order for the voter to vote in a mail ballot election. The secretary of state is required to include in the procedures a method by which a voter with a disability may request such a ballot.
+
+## 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_sb202_h_app_002.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/13/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202sapp_01.pdf)
+6. **PA2 (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202sa_01.pdf)
+7. **Reengrossed (04/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202_ren.pdf)
+8. **Rerevised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202_rer.pdf)
+9. **Revised (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_202_rev.pdf)
+10. **Signed Act (05/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_202_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
+- Meg Froelich — primary (person)
+- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
+- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
+- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
+- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5d981a2-48da-4a36-8b5f-5ef3b778c32f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+