republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1186.md

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Bill	School Employment Background Check Clarification	School employees - background checks - fingerprinting. Under current law, school employees are required to undergo a fingerprint-based background check. In most statutes, the fingerprints can be taken by a qualified law enforcement agency, an authorized employee of the school or school district, or a third party approved by the Colorado bureau of investigation, but a few statutes do not authorize fingerprints to be taken by an authorized school or school district employee. The act adds that authorization to those statutes. The act requires a law enforcement agency that has fingerprinting equipment that meets federal bureau of investigation image quality standards to take the fingerprints of an applicant if an approved third-party vendor is not operating within 20 miles of a school district, charter school, or nonpublic school in the agency's jurisdiction. The act states that a school or school district employee can use any fingerprinting equipment that meets the federal bureau of investigation image quality standards.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1186	Colorado HB 19-1186 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Jeff Bridges John Cooke Tony Exum	9	14	2	2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00	2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4b6c7189-7f8a-4c2f-aec3-278125bde62b	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1186	9d4f3c331dc6ea575531b960d53ba9b55a8089c834cec8432890f581f3677082	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1186 (2019A) — School Employment Background Check Clarification

School employees - background checks - fingerprinting. Under current law, school employees are required to undergo a fingerprint-based background check. In most statutes, the fingerprints can be taken by a qualified law enforcement agency, an authorized employee of the school or school district, or a third party approved by the Colorado bureau of investigation, but a few statutes do not authorize fingerprints to be taken by an authorized school or school district employee. The act adds that authorization to those statutes. The act requires a law enforcement agency that has fingerprinting equipment that meets federal bureau of investigation image quality standards to take the fingerprints of an applicant if an approved third-party vendor is not operating within 20 miles of a school district, charter school, or nonpublic school in the agency's jurisdiction. The act states that a school or school district employee can use any fingerprinting equipment that meets the federal bureau of investigation image quality standards.(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 (03/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/11/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Tony Exum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2019-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-02-26T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b6c7189-7f8a-4c2f-aec3-278125bde62b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).