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type: "Bill"
title: "Board Of Health Approval For Legal Services"
description: "State board of health - repeal of approval for retention of counsel. The act removes the requirement that the state board of health (state board) approve the retention of counsel when the executive director of the department of public health and environment seeks to bring an action to enjoin, prosecute, or enforce public health laws or standards and the local district attorney fails to act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-021"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-021 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominick Moreno", "Hugh McKean"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb0ff8d6-a3e8-4c26-a8a5-c8c664929054"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-021"
source_hash: "812f3c857e364a86fc7db36640dde66e1144e4abac9a8950998cbac5b68878c8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---
# Colorado SB 19-021 (2019A) — Board Of Health Approval For Legal Services
State board of health - repeal of approval for retention of counsel. The act removes the requirement that the state board of health (state board) approve the retention of counsel when the executive director of the department of public health and environment seeks to bring an action to enjoin, prosecute, or enforce public health laws or standards and the local district attorney fails to act.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_sb021_h_hi_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_021_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (02/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_021_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_021_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (01/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_021_rn2.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_021_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_021_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (02/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_021_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **350** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **630** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Hugh McKean — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-01-16T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb0ff8d6-a3e8-4c26-a8a5-c8c664929054`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).