---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protect Social Workers' Personal Information On Internet"
description: "Child welfare caseworkers - prohibition on posting caseworkers' personal information on the internet if threat to caseworker - removing caseworkers' personal information in government records if threat to caseworker. The act defines caseworker (caseworker) to include a state or county employee and county attorney who is engaged in investigating or taking legal action regarding allegations of child abuse or neglect."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1197"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1197 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Jonathan Singer", "Pete Lee", "Terri Carver"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32ca8b86-d874-423e-b4c8-c8bb7134c748"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1197"
source_hash: "3b89e69060b531a688cc695fe62367daa645d0de3a4eeaef7e3916426e7efa20"
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 HB 19-1197 (2019A) — Protect Social Workers' Personal Information On Internet

Child welfare caseworkers - prohibition on posting caseworkers' personal information on the internet if threat to caseworker - removing caseworkers' personal information in government records if threat to caseworker. The act defines caseworker (caseworker) to include a state or county employee and county attorney who is engaged in investigating or taking legal action regarding allegations of child abuse or neglect.

## 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_hb1197_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1197_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1197_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1197_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1197jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1197_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1197_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1197_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1197_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **61–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)
- Terri Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - 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/32ca8b86-d874-423e-b4c8-c8bb7134c748`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).