republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1189.md

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Bill	Wage Garnishment Reform	Wage garnishment - disposable earnings - hardship exemption - notice - applicability. Under current law, the amount of an individual's disposable earnings subject to garnishment is either 25% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings or the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed 30 times the state or federal minimum wage, whichever is less. The act changes the amount subject to garnishment to 20% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings 40 times the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed the state or federal minimum wage.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1189	Colorado HB 19-1189 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Alex Valdez Jeff Bridges Matt Gray Rhonda Fields	10	20	4	2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5fc146b0-2051-4ca7-b167-f671325e2558	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1189	ed666e00c267e0ba616ca7b950b44dfc97b93fc1caa242159efe4b652a3d79c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1189 (2019A) — Wage Garnishment Reform

Wage garnishment - disposable earnings - hardship exemption - notice - applicability. Under current law, the amount of an individual's disposable earnings subject to garnishment is either 25% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings or the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed 30 times the state or federal minimum wage, whichever is less. The act changes the amount subject to garnishment to 20% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings 40 times the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed the state or federal minimum wage.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/14/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/03/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 37–27 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 49–15 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 21–13 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 39–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Valdez — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Matt Gray — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/08/2019 - No Amendments
• 2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5fc146b0-2051-4ca7-b167-f671325e2558. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).