---
type: "Bill"
title: "Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environment Water Quality Control"
description: "State board of health - water quality control - joint operating agreement approval - water conservancy district board of directors - rules. The act eliminates the requirement that the state board of health approve a municipality's entrance into a joint operating agreement with an industrial enterprise for work relating to sewerage facilities. The act also clarifies that the board of directors of a water conservancy district must comply with the rules of the water quality control commission concerning the manner in which watercourses of the district are used for waste disposal.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1071"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1071 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hugh McKean", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ce5f868-4369-46b9-82f6-be8d62a19971"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1071"
source_hash: "ccb69f14a175bf5998da90d5315990b1e74f93efba97f54f437502e483311c3b"
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 HB 19-1071 (2019A) — Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environment Water Quality Control

State board of health - water quality control - joint operating agreement approval - water conservancy district board of directors - rules. The act eliminates the requirement that the state board of health approve a municipality's entrance into a joint operating agreement with an industrial enterprise for work relating to sewerage facilities. The act also clarifies that the board of directors of a water conservancy district must comply with the rules of the water quality control commission concerning the manner in which watercourses of the district are used for waste disposal.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## 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_hb1071_s_agr_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1071_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (02/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1071_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1071_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (01/31/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1071_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/21/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1071_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1071_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1071_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **62–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hugh McKean — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ce5f868-4369-46b9-82f6-be8d62a19971`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).