---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increased Eligibility For Criminal Record Sealing"
description: "Criminal record sealing - simplified sealing no conviction - petition for sealing petty offenses through class 3 felonies and level 2 drug felonies - appropriation. The act repeals and reenacts the statutes related to sealing criminal justice records. The act creates a simplified process to seal criminal justice records when:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1275"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1275 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Soper", "Michael Weissman", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0e375e2-c491-4560-aad0-2678a7cc6e03"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1275"
source_hash: "360fba1856908f39ee102b47c2c99016007d0849deb986649fd229d01756ae99"
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 19-1275 (2019A) — Increased Eligibility For Criminal Record Sealing

Criminal record sealing - simplified sealing no conviction - petition for sealing petty offenses through class 3 felonies and level 2 drug felonies - appropriation. The act repeals and reenacts the statutes related to sealing criminal justice records. The act creates a simplified process to seal criminal justice records when:

## 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_hb1275_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1275_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1275_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **59–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Michael Weissman — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-20T06:00:00+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 to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, 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 - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2019-03-26T06:00:00+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/a0e375e2-c491-4560-aad0-2678a7cc6e03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).