---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing Number Of District Court Judges"
description: "District court judges - increases - outreach position - reports - appropriation. The act increases by one the number of district court judges in the first, eighth, tenth, thirteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first judicial districts; by 2 in the fourth and nineteenth judicial districts; and by 4 in the second judicial district."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-043"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-043 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Leslie Herod", "Pete Lee", "Terri Carver"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52fd4f63-6510-4ddf-92dc-d997530afab5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-043"
source_hash: "591a37490b993f551e3ed67f25f77a50c09b095bc5642dea7c3c7efa1428abad"
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 19-043 (2019A) — Increasing Number Of District Court Judges

District court judges - increases - outreach position - reports - appropriation. The act increases by one the number of district court judges in the first, eighth, tenth, thirteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first judicial districts; by 2 in the fourth and nineteenth judicial districts; and by 4 in the second judicial district.

## 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_sb043_h_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043sapp_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (02/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043jud_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (02/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043app.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (02/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (02/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (02/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_043_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (03/21/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_043_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **61–3** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)
- Terri Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations `introduction`
- **2019-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+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/52fd4f63-6510-4ddf-92dc-d997530afab5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).