republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1265.md

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Bill	Right-Of-Way For Snowplows In Echelon Formation	Traffic infractions - passing authorized snow plows in echelon formation - appropriation. The act states that a person commits a class A traffic offense if the person passes a snowplow that is operated by a state, county, or local government, displaying its lights, and performing its service function in echelon formation with one or more other such snowplows. "Echelon formation" means a formation in which snowplows are arranged diagonally, with each unit stationed behind and to the right, or behind and to the left, of the unit ahead.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1265	Colorado HB 19-1265 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Bob Rankin Daneya Esgar Faith Winter Matt Soper	9	14	2	2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/76518e68-ff58-4d80-a24e-4c80a99e7144	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1265	71d1a285a1e867ee2b4f97efcd03516b36c40d8ce78edfcf2e0303125a3928a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1265 (2019A) — Right-Of-Way For Snowplows In Echelon Formation

Traffic infractions - passing authorized snow plows in echelon formation - appropriation. The act states that a person commits a class A traffic offense if the person passes a snowplow that is operated by a state, county, or local government, displaying its lights, and performing its service function in echelon formation with one or more other such snowplows. "Echelon formation" means a formation in which snowplows are arranged diagonally, with each unit stationed behind and to the right, or behind and to the left, of the unit ahead.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 58–6 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Rankin — primary (person)
• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/76518e68-ff58-4d80-a24e-4c80a99e7144. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).