republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1316.md

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Bill	Modernizing Marriage Laws For Minors	Marriage of underage persons - issuance of marriage license - rights and conditions - appropriation. The act prohibits persons under 16 years of age from obtaining a marriage license. A person who is 16 or 17 years of age may only obtain a marriage license if a juvenile court determines that the underage party is capable of assuming the responsibilities of marriage and that the marriage would serve the underage party's best interests. Prior to making this determination, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for the underage party to investigate the underage party's circumstances and best interests and to file a report with the court addressing the factors listed in the act and stating a position regarding whether the issuance of a marriage license is in the underage party's best interests. The act authorizes the juvenile court to appoint a guardian ad litem for purposes of judicial consent for underage marriage.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1316	Colorado HB 19-1316 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Chris Hansen Faith Winter John Cooke Lois Landgraf	10	15	4	2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-31T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/44ceb1fc-ce01-448b-9628-1f5650f502b0	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1316	7b19d55b34b3643c7221ac3633925105f31dd026df79955ce11e823bffdd0c5a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1316 (2019A) — Modernizing Marriage Laws For Minors

Marriage of underage persons - issuance of marriage license - rights and conditions - appropriation. The act prohibits persons under 16 years of age from obtaining a marriage license. A person who is 16 or 17 years of age may only obtain a marriage license if a juvenile court determines that the underage party is capable of assuming the responsibilities of marriage and that the marriage would serve the underage party's best interests. Prior to making this determination, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for the underage party to investigate the underage party's circumstances and best interests and to file a report with the court addressing the factors listed in the act and stating a position regarding whether the issuance of a marriage license is in the underage party's best interests. The act authorizes the juvenile court to appoint a guardian ad litem for purposes of judicial consent for underage marriage.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/31/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 57–7 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 32–2 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 19–45 (fail) · upper
• COW * — 16–19 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Lois Landgraf — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-31T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 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
• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44ceb1fc-ce01-448b-9628-1f5650f502b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).