---
type: "Bill"
title: "Animal Ban For Cruelty To Animals Conviction"
description: "Animal cruelty - mental health treatment - order preventing pet ownership. The act allows a court to impose a mental health treatment program or appropriate treatment program as a sentence for animal cruelty. The act requires a court to enter an order prohibiting a person convicted of felony animal cruelty from owning a pet animal for a period of 3 to 5 years and a juvenile adjudicated a delinquent for an animal cruelty crime from owning a pet animal, unless the defendant or juvenile's treatment provider makes a specific recommendation not to impose the ban and the court agrees with the recommendation.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1092"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1092 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Valdez", "Joann Ginal"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-14T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/361728b5-e3ca-4927-a1d3-76b259c763c0"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1092"
source_hash: "7b35b5ae526b8a98d3ffea0dcdbab2c33d4d51f373d447af44610c50602a6285"
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 19-1092 (2019A) — Animal Ban For Cruelty To Animals Conviction

Animal cruelty - mental health treatment - order preventing pet ownership. The act allows a court to impose a mental health treatment program or appropriate treatment program as a sentence for animal cruelty. The act requires a court to enter an order prohibiting a person convicted of felony animal cruelty from owning a pet animal for a period of 3 to 5 years and a juvenile adjudicated a delinquent for an animal cruelty crime from owning a pet animal, unless the defendant or juvenile's treatment provider makes a specific recommendation not to impose the ban and the court agrees with the recommendation.(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_hb1092_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092sjud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1092_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1092_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **48–16** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **29–3** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **48–16** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **55–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alex Valdez — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2019-01-14T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - 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/361728b5-e3ca-4927-a1d3-76b259c763c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).