republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1219.md

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Bill	Child Welfare Permanency Planning	Child welfare - permanency hearing - burden of proof - clarifications. The act repeals and reenacts the provisions related to child welfare permanency hearings to reorganize the statutes and use consistent terminology related to permanency hearings. The act clarifies the burden of proof at permanency hearings. The act includes recent federal law changes.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1219	Colorado HB 19-1219 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Larry Crowder Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	9	12	2	2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d0974fa7-a95d-4224-b8aa-c8796dafb138	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1219	859754dad78c91892dd35be1cb678005a242c5b9d4e09b59362fde81d1e35b90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1219 (2019A) — Child Welfare Permanency Planning

Child welfare - permanency hearing - burden of proof - clarifications. The act repeals and reenacts the provisions related to child welfare permanency hearings to reorganize the statutes and use consistent terminology related to permanency hearings. The act clarifies the burden of proof at permanency hearings. The act includes recent federal law changes.(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 (03/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/02/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/05/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Larry Crowder — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0974fa7-a95d-4224-b8aa-c8796dafb138. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).