---
type: "Bill"
title: "Serious Bodily Injury Vulnerable Road User Penalties"
description: "Serious bodily injury to a vulnerable road user - appropriation. The act makes it a class 1 traffic misdemeanor when careless driving of a motor vehicle is the proximate cause of serious bodily injury to a vulnerable road user, which is defined in the act. The act allows the court to require the violator to attend a driver improvement course and to require the violator to perform useful public service. The act also subjects a violator to a restitution order and 12 points pursuant to the point system schedule."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-175"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-175 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dylan Roberts", "Mike Foote"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c81917a8-f18a-4c28-be49-45b3b5540f5f"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-175"
source_hash: "66a78e0724cd91f5d498b019a6e617809422d26c2e169beab4dd60c67df14663"
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 19-175 (2019A) — Serious Bodily Injury Vulnerable Road User Penalties

Serious bodily injury to a vulnerable road user - appropriation. The act makes it a class 1 traffic misdemeanor when careless driving of a motor vehicle is the proximate cause of serious bodily injury to a vulnerable road user, which is defined in the act. The act allows the court to require the violator to attend a driver improvement course and to require the violator to perform useful public service. The act also subjects a violator to a restitution order and 12 points pursuant to the point system schedule.

## 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_sb175_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175sjud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175sjudapp.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175hi_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_175_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_175_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **59–5** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Mike Foote — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Pass
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Reconsider
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - No Amendments
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
- **2019-03-01T07:00:00+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/c81917a8-f18a-4c28-be49-45b3b5540f5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).