---
type: "Bill"
title: "License Business Selling Its Used Motor Vehicles"
description: "Automotive sales - business disposal license - grounds for discipline - right of action for loss - appropriation. The act creates a business disposal license for a business to sell its used vehicles if the vehicle sales do not exceed 20% of the business's gross revenue. The vehicles must not be passenger vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-249"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-249 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adrienne Benavidez", "Julie Gonzales", "Ray Scott", "Rod Bockenfeld"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/937fbc9f-db9a-47fb-bc7a-f1cbc7b6e601"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-249"
source_hash: "17571d1aff87e3c42dfbd1e684888d5efccf6f8552dbbd45eea25b74c33df451"
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 19-249 (2019A) — License Business Selling Its Used Motor Vehicles

Automotive sales - business disposal license - grounds for discipline - right of action for loss - appropriation. The act creates a business disposal license for a business to sell its used vehicles if the vehicle sales do not exceed 20% of the business's gross revenue. The vehicles must not be passenger vehicles.

## 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_sb249_h_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249sblt_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249sbltapp.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_249_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_249_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **61–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adrienne Benavidez — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Ray Scott — primary (person)
- Rod Bockenfeld — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/937fbc9f-db9a-47fb-bc7a-f1cbc7b6e601`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).