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Bill	Offense Level For Controlled Substance Possession	Controlled substances - possession offenses - sentencing - substance use and mental health treatment - appropriation. The act makes possession of 4 grams or less of a controlled substance listed in schedule I or II a level 1 drug misdemeanor; except that possession of any amount of gamma hydroxybutyrate or a fourth or subsequent offense for possession of 4 grams or less of a schedule I or II controlled substance or any amount of a schedule III, IV, or V controlled substance is a level 4 drug felony.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1263	Colorado HB 19-1263 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Leslie Herod Pete Lee Shane Sandridge Vicki Marble	14	18	6	2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/016a3a5b-b944-473d-a25d-5e07c1fe65bf	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1263	ad3e48754a3a3de012ccfee3e947c238605403b36af4251dc9786afd4fb8b2f4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1263 (2019A) — Offense Level For Controlled Substance Possession

Controlled substances - possession offenses - sentencing - substance use and mental health treatment - appropriation. The act makes possession of 4 grams or less of a controlled substance listed in schedule I or II a level 1 drug misdemeanor; except that possession of any amount of gamma hydroxybutyrate or a fourth or subsequent offense for possession of 4 grams or less of a schedule I or II controlled substance or any amount of a schedule III, IV, or V controlled substance is a level 4 drug felony.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (04/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. PA5 (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. PA6 (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Reengrossed (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
12. Rerevised (05/03/2019) (committee substitute) — source
13. Revised (05/02/2019) (committee substitute) — source
14. Signed Act (05/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMEND — 34–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 43–20 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 40–25 (pass) · lower
• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 61–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Pete Lee — primary (person)
• Shane Sandridge — primary (person)
• Vicki Marble — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/016a3a5b-b944-473d-a25d-5e07c1fe65bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).