---
type: "Bill"
title: "Safe Family Option For Parents"
description: "Child placement agencies - delegating care of a minor - temporary care assistance program - appropriation. The act permits a parent or guardian to use a temporary care assistance program operated by a child placement agency to identify an appropriate and safe approved temporary caregiver to whom the parent or guardian can choose to delegate temporary care responsibility of a minor through a power of attorney."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1142"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1142 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominick Moreno", "Jim Smallwood", "Jonathan Singer", "Kim Ransom"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7409438-bcde-45e1-85d3-bb9260fa86c6"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1142"
source_hash: "d51eb6dacf359ce42ce0bbbd593277f8bc7d51510446621849063fe608b15f14"
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 19-1142 (2019A) — Safe Family Option For Parents

Child placement agencies - delegating care of a minor - temporary care assistance program - appropriation. The act permits a parent or guardian to use a temporary care assistance program operated by a child placement agency to identify an appropriate and safe approved temporary caregiver to whom the parent or guardian can choose to delegate temporary care responsibility of a minor through a power of attorney.

## 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_hb1142_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142phc_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1142_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1142_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
- Kim Ransom — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7409438-bcde-45e1-85d3-bb9260fa86c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).