---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wage Garnishment Reform"
description: "Wage garnishment - disposable earnings - hardship exemption - notice - applicability. Under current law, the amount of an individual's disposable earnings subject to garnishment is either 25% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings or the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed 30 times the state or federal minimum wage, whichever is less. The act changes the amount subject to garnishment to 20% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings 40 times the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed the state or federal minimum wage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1189"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1189 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Valdez", "Jeff Bridges", "Matt Gray", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fc146b0-2051-4ca7-b167-f671325e2558"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1189"
source_hash: "ed666e00c267e0ba616ca7b950b44dfc97b93fc1caa242159efe4b652a3d79c6"
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 19-1189 (2019A) — Wage Garnishment Reform

Wage garnishment - disposable earnings - hardship exemption - notice - applicability. Under current law, the amount of an individual's disposable earnings subject to garnishment is either 25% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings or the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed 30 times the state or federal minimum wage, whichever is less. The act changes the amount subject to garnishment to 20% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings 40 times the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed the state or federal minimum wage.

## 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_hb1189_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189sfin_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1189_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1189_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **37–27** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **49–15** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **39–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alex Valdez — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Matt Gray — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/08/2019 - No Amendments
- **2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fc146b0-2051-4ca7-b167-f671325e2558`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).