---
type: "Bill"
title: "Improve Wages And Accountability Home Care Workers"
description: "Home care agencies - department to request increase in federal reimbursement rate for certain services - minimum wage - wage pass-through requirement - training - appropriation. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to request from the federal government an increase of 8.1% in the reimbursement rate for certain services delivered to consumers through the home- and community-based services waivers. For the 2019-20 fiscal year, each home care agency (agency) shall pay 100% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide personal care services, homemaker services, and in-home support services (covered services) to consumers. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, each agency shall pay 85% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide covered services to consumers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-238"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-238 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Kennedy", "Dominick Moreno", "Jessie Danielson", "Monica Duran"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/029dc294-edf6-4a66-b407-7a45a0e37f49"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-238"
source_hash: "c50d94362938fcd92c2e6a5b93ed4f48d0652fd9afa9edaee47122ad079d85a7"
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 19-238 (2019A) — Improve Wages And Accountability Home Care Workers

Home care agencies - department to request increase in federal reimbursement rate for certain services - minimum wage - wage pass-through requirement - training - appropriation. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to request from the federal government an increase of 8.1% in the reimbursement rate for certain services delivered to consumers through the home- and community-based services waivers. For the 2019-20 fiscal year, each home care agency (agency) shall pay 100% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide personal care services, homemaker services, and in-home support services (covered services) to consumers. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, each agency shall pay 85% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide covered services to consumers.

## 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_sb238_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238shhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238shhsapp.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_238_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_238_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **46–19** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **25–39** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Monica Duran — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-17T06:00:00+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
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+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/029dc294-edf6-4a66-b407-7a45a0e37f49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).