republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1042.md

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Bill	Extend Court Jurisdiction For Vulnerable Youth	Juvenile court jurisdiction for guardianship and parental responsibilities proceedings - findings supporting federal special immigrant juvenile classification. The act extends the jurisdiction of the court for guardianship proceedings and proceedings concerning the allocation of parental responsibilities for certain unmarried youth under 21 years of age who meet the requirements for such orders, as well as criteria specified in the act, and for whom findings are sought from the court that may support an application for special immigrant juvenile classification under federal law. The act clarifies that juvenile courts exercising jurisdiction for certain purposes may also enter findings establishing eligibility for special immigrant juvenile classification under federal law.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1042	Colorado HB 19-1042 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	9	14	4	2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00	2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/28c6b785-1355-40fb-8d26-aa11a48b8af4	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1042	c9c94d228f0b37d776274153d3d5e6050b8de19173e3f1034bce2e7c2dfc0526	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1042 (2019A) — Extend Court Jurisdiction For Vulnerable Youth

Juvenile court jurisdiction for guardianship and parental responsibilities proceedings - findings supporting federal special immigrant juvenile classification. The act extends the jurisdiction of the court for guardianship proceedings and proceedings concerning the allocation of parental responsibilities for certain unmarried youth under 21 years of age who meet the requirements for such orders, as well as criteria specified in the act, and for whom findings are sought from the court that may support an application for special immigrant juvenile classification under federal law. The act clarifies that juvenile courts exercising jurisdiction for certain purposes may also enter findings establishing eligibility for special immigrant juvenile classification under federal law.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (01/31/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (02/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 39–23 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 20–12 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 31–33 (fail) · upper
• AMD — 23–41 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-01-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28c6b785-1355-40fb-8d26-aa11a48b8af4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).