---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protect From Unlawful Abandonment And Confinement"
description: "At-risk persons - unlawful abandonment - false imprisonment - appropriation. The act makes it a crime to unlawfully abandon an at-risk person. The intentional and unreasonable desertion of an at-risk person in a manner that endangers the safety of that person constitutes unlawful abandonment. Unlawful abandonment is a class 1 misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-172"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-172 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "Joann Ginal", "Jonathan Singer"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac221ffc-b8dd-4791-9bb8-e0ced67811cb"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-172"
source_hash: "183f0a543fc1625e30bdcfe985021927fac347789f20c1df1c723c9aa8cbf0a4"
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 19-172 (2019A) — Protect From Unlawful Abandonment And Confinement

At-risk persons - unlawful abandonment - false imprisonment - appropriation. The act makes it a crime to unlawfully abandon an at-risk person. The intentional and unreasonable desertion of an at-risk person in a manner that endangers the safety of that person constitutes unlawful abandonment. Unlawful abandonment is a class 1 misdemeanor.

## 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_sb172_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172shhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172shhssapp.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172jud_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_172_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_172_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **65–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
- Jonathan Singer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **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 - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+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/ac221ffc-b8dd-4791-9bb8-e0ced67811cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).