---
type: "Bill"
title: "Parole Changes"
description: "Prison population management - file review - technical violations revoke parole - parolee intensive treatment program - full board approval circumstance - reentry services if not released on parole - table parole review - appropriation. Under current law, there are prison population measures that can be used when the vacancy rate drops below 2%. The act changes the rate to 3% and adds a new measure. The new measure allows the department to submit a list of inmates who meet a specified eligibility criteria, have a favorable parole plan, and have been assessed to be less than high risk to the parole board for a file review."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-143"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-143 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Gonzales", "Leslie Herod", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4e0384e-e253-4ccc-a4ef-2515397ca9a7"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-143"
source_hash: "89879637bb66fdad6fba785578902970138b6fff8f659d9997548b86c5fb4ddc"
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 19-143 (2019A) — Parole Changes

Prison population management - file review - technical violations revoke parole - parolee intensive treatment program - full board approval circumstance - reentry services if not released on parole - table parole review - appropriation. Under current law, there are prison population measures that can be used when the vacancy rate drops below 2%. The act changes the rate to 3% and adds a new measure. The new measure allows the department to submit a list of inmates who meet a specified eligibility criteria, have a favorable parole plan, and have been assessed to be less than high risk to the parole board for a file review.

## 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_sb143_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/21/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143sjud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143sjudapp.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143jud_01.pdf)
8. **PA4 (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143app.pdf)
9. **Reengrossed (04/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143_ren.pdf)
10. **Rerevised (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143_rer.pdf)
11. **Revised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_143_rev.pdf)
12. **Signed Act (05/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_143_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **26–9** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **43–22** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — 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`
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/b4e0384e-e253-4ccc-a4ef-2515397ca9a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).