---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fiscal Year 2019-20 Legislative Appropriation Bill"
description: "Legislative appropriation - reappropriation from general assembly to legislative council. $51,308,908 is appropriated to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2019-20 state fiscal year. Additionally, the act appropriates $25,000 to the youth advisory council cash fund within the legislative department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-203"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-203 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alec Garnett", "Patrick Neville", "Stephen Fenberg"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93b57ea3-6acc-45db-81e8-6076cd9a01de"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-203"
source_hash: "c5b70675c5988d68772d480b64d6ef3cddedb243e0f20a0847888096f67ad80b"
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 19-203 (2019A) — Fiscal Year 2019-20 Legislative Appropriation Bill

Legislative appropriation - reappropriation from general assembly to legislative council. $51,308,908 is appropriated to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2019-20 state fiscal year. Additionally, the act appropriates $25,000 to the youth advisory council cash fund within the legislative department.

## 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_sb203_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_203_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_203_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_203_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_203_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_203_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_203_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_203_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **57–6** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **27–8** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **16–18** (fail) · lower
- COW * — **16–18** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alec Garnett — primary (person)
- Patrick Neville — primary (person)
- Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93b57ea3-6acc-45db-81e8-6076cd9a01de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).