---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Residency Presumption For Military"
description: "Income tax- military service - reacquisition of residency. Under current law, an individual in active duty military service whose home of record is Colorado and whose state of residence is a state other than Colorado is allowed to reacquire residency in Colorado and not pay Colorado state income tax on his or her military income."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-029"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-029 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Crowder", "Lois Landgraf", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/738546d7-f593-428a-b094-b98cfbba76a8"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-029"
source_hash: "9ab2722faed2852ada86131c4bcfc4a4bd45cd8122834b353a204b1d9cbe1cc0"
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 SB 19-029 (2019A) — Income Tax Residency Presumption For Military

Income tax- military service - reacquisition of residency. Under current law, an individual in active duty military service whose home of record is Colorado and whose state of residence is a state other than Colorado is allowed to reacquire residency in Colorado and not pay Colorado state income tax on his or her military income.

## 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_sb029_h_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_029_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_029_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_029_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (01/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_029_rn2.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_029_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_029_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_029_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Crowder — primary (person)
- Lois Landgraf — primary (person)
- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Finance `introduction`
- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/738546d7-f593-428a-b094-b98cfbba76a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).