---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bond Requirements For Public Projects Using Private Financing"
description: "Contract performance and payment bonds. Under current law, when a person, company, firm, corporation, or contractor (contractor) enters into a contract with a county, municipality, school district, or, in some instances, any other political subdivision of the state, to perform work in connection with a project that has specified characteristics, the contractor is required to execute performance bonds and payment bonds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-138"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-138 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Kevin Priola", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2367b430-7d19-4dd1-88c8-81bbb11fecf6"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-138"
source_hash: "a4ae96228c95e6fc4b5db0798ee0a157ff2de1afdf4b79856836cbea2de6ef62"
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 19-138 (2019A) — Bond Requirements For Public Projects Using Private Financing

Contract performance and payment bonds. Under current law, when a person, company, firm, corporation, or contractor (contractor) enters into a contract with a county, municipality, school district, or, in some instances, any other political subdivision of the state, to perform work in connection with a project that has specified characteristics, the contractor is required to execute performance bonds and payment bonds.

## 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_sb138_h_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138sfin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138fin_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_138_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_138_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **54–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2367b430-7d19-4dd1-88c8-81bbb11fecf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).