---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Tenants Health And Safety Act"
description: "Tenants and landlords - warranty of habitability - breach of warranty - tenants' remedies. Under current law, a warranty of habitability (warranty) is implied in every rental agreement for a residential premises. The act states that, except in cases involving a condition that is based on the presence of mold, a landlord commits a breach of the warranty (breach) if the residential premises is:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1170"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1170 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angela Williams", "Dominique Jackson", "Jeff Bridges", "Michael Weissman"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/865a54a9-520d-4c0c-8cb0-aae45a83a874"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1170"
source_hash: "6139bfd57d07192c5d7c7cdcf68d4cbc2b1a6a5ad3435e08890e6e52b6386cba"
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 19-1170 (2019A) — Residential Tenants Health And Safety Act

Tenants and landlords - warranty of habitability - breach of warranty - tenants' remedies. Under current law, a warranty of habitability (warranty) is implied in every rental agreement for a residential premises. The act states that, except in cases involving a condition that is based on the presence of mold, a landlord commits a breach of the warranty (breach) if the residential premises is:

## 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_hb1170_j_cc_001.pdf)
2. **Conference Committee (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170cc.pdf)
3. **Engrossed (02/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170_eng.pdf)
4. **Final Act (05/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170_enr.pdf)
5. **Introduced (02/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170_01.pdf)
6. **PA1 (02/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170phc_01.pdf)
7. **PA2 (03/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170sloc_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (02/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (03/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (03/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1170_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1170_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **22–40** (fail) · lower
- NOTCNCR — **40–25** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **42–22** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT — **46–18** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **20–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Angela Williams — primary (person)
- Dominique Jackson — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Michael Weissman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 02/22/2019 - No Amendments
- **2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-05T07:00:00+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/865a54a9-520d-4c0c-8cb0-aae45a83a874`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).