---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Welfare Allocations Committee Composition"
description: "Child welfare allocations committee - membership composition. The act increases the number of voting members on the child welfare allocations committee (committee) who are appointed by county commissioners from 8 to 10. The act decreases the number of voting members on the committee who are appointed by the department of human services from 5 to 3. The act requires the 2 additional county commissioner appointed voting members to come from the 2 counties with the greatest percentage of the state's child welfare caseload, with one appointee coming from each county."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-031"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-031 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Larry Liston", "Susan Lontine"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3bf4f1b5-6369-4da6-8948-8ccaf50c17d2"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-031"
source_hash: "2f0c5e012b56e5d0ebe9722b5e76bab09f73d72360311fb9985e4fdab20cc742"
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 19-031 (2019A) — Child Welfare Allocations Committee Composition

Child welfare allocations committee - membership composition. The act increases the number of voting members on the child welfare allocations committee (committee) who are appointed by county commissioners from 8 to 10. The act decreases the number of voting members on the committee who are appointed by the department of human services from 5 to 3. The act requires the 2 additional county commissioner appointed voting members to come from the 2 counties with the greatest percentage of the state's child welfare caseload, with one appointee coming from each county.

## 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_sb031_h_phc_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_031_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_031_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_031_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_031_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_031_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_031_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_031_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Larry Liston — primary (person)
- Susan Lontine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`
- **2019-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/05/2019 - No Amendments
- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 01/31/2019 - No Amendments
- **2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 01/28/2019 - No Amendments
- **2019-01-17T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3bf4f1b5-6369-4da6-8948-8ccaf50c17d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).