---
type: "Bill"
title: "Publicly Licensed Marijuana Companies"
description: "Licensed marijuana ownership - allow publicly traded corporations - controlling beneficial owners, indirect financial interest holders, and passive beneficial owners - rule-making authority - suitability finding - notification, disclosure, notice requirements - appropriation. The act repeals the provision that prohibits publicly traded corporations from holding a marijuana license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1090"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1090 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Gonzales", "Kevin Van Winkle", "Matt Gray", "Owen Hill"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70ec08b2-9005-4d85-8815-a4625a0ab4b0"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1090"
source_hash: "c5f371fe312df6e595450190b871402b6174628781f43d1c7567d6777760c309"
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 19-1090 (2019A) — Publicly Licensed Marijuana Companies

Licensed marijuana ownership - allow publicly traded corporations - controlling beneficial owners, indirect financial interest holders, and passive beneficial owners - rule-making authority - suitability finding - notification, disclosure, notice requirements - appropriation. The act repeals the provision that prohibits publicly traded corporations from holding a marijuana license.

## 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_hb1090_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1090_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1090_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1090_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1090fin_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1090_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1090_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1090_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1090_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **27–7** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **54–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Kevin Van Winkle — primary (person)
- Matt Gray — primary (person)
- Owen Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70ec08b2-9005-4d85-8815-a4625a0ab4b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).