---
type: "Bill"
title: "Building Energy Codes"
description: "Building regulations - energy efficient building code standards required - reporting. The act requires local jurisdictions to adopt one of the 3 most recent versions of the international energy conservation code at a minimum, upon updating any other building code, and encourages local jurisdictions to update the Colorado energy office on any changes to the jurisdictions' building and energy codes.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1260"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1260 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Valdez", "Cathy Kipp", "Faith Winter", "Kevin Priola"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ef44110-12b0-41e3-8a07-f6a1bf6564b0"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1260"
source_hash: "6a2e2200772dcb2d7baffb230080a72267a27eb4925fc27f2de1157f5233d63b"
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 19-1260 (2019A) — Building Energy Codes

Building regulations - energy efficient building code standards required - reporting. The act requires local jurisdictions to adopt one of the 3 most recent versions of the international energy conservation code at a minimum, upon updating any other building code, and encourages local jurisdictions to update the Colorado energy office on any changes to the jurisdictions' building and energy codes.(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_hb1260_s_tra_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1260_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1260_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1260_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1260_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1260_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1260_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1260_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **24–10** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–22** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alex Valdez — primary (person)
- Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+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`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ef44110-12b0-41e3-8a07-f6a1bf6564b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).