republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1198.md

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Bill	Increasing Special District Board To Seven Members	The bill allows a special district having a 5-member board to increase the number of board members to 7 by the adoption of a resolution by the board and the approval of the resolution by the board of county commissioners or the governing body of the municipality that approved the service plan of the special district. If an increase is made, a board cannot be reduced back to 5 members. The bill also specifies the length of the initial term of each new special district board member and sets forth the election requirements.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1198	Colorado HB 17-1198 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Matt Gray	10	13	3	2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00	2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c819d1c7-ae62-4995-8ff7-27b5a8df5195	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1198	7b441ccfde574b54553d02a6407f87a3f2f096bad418d1f28e89a4a71577a2fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1198 (2017A) — Increasing Special District Board To Seven Members

The bill allows a special district having a 5-member board to increase the number of board members to 7 by the adoption of a resolution by the board and the approval of the resolution by the board of county commissioners or the governing body of the municipality that approved the service plan of the special district. If an increase is made, a board cannot be reduced back to 5 members. The bill also specifies the length of the initial term of each new special district board member and sets forth the election requirements.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Amendment L.001 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (03/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (04/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (02/22/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (03/02/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/07/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/23/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment A). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1198, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 12-0, with 1 excused. — 12–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1198 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 4-1. — 4–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Matt Gray — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government introduction
• 2017-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2017-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c819d1c7-ae62-4995-8ff7-27b5a8df5195. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).