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Bill	Establish Colorado Fire Commission	Colorado fire commission - creation - powers and duties - repeal - appropriation. The Colorado fire commission (commission) is created in the division of fire prevention and control in the department of public safety. The commission's purpose is to enhance public safety in Colorado through an integrated statewide process focused on the fire service's capacity to conduct fire management and use, preparedness, prevention, and response activities to safeguard lives, property, and natural resources, and increase the resiliency of local and regional communities. The commission is charged with developing an accurate understanding of Colorado's fire problems, reviewing the current emergency fire fund program, evaluating the funding mechanisms for effective response to large fires, assessing the capacity of the state to provide emergency fire support and technical expertise to local communities, developing performance measures of overall response effectiveness, strengthening statewide and regional coordination, developing best practice recommendations related to high-risk occupancies, developing and publishing an assessment of fire treatment costs and cost distribution, developing methodical approaches to Colorado's fire service concerns, and forecasting upcoming funding and resource challenges. The commission may establish task forces to study and make recommendations on specific subjects within the commission's areas of study. The commission is repealed, effective September 1, 2024, and is subject to a sunset review prior to its repeal.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-040	Colorado SB 19-040 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Dennis Hisey Dylan Roberts Rhonda Fields Terri Carver	10	14	3	2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00	2019-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a88cb1b0-5f01-4b99-a02f-f20ceda9beb5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-040	0c3a9e9e138de48329fe5c6072c562b23a6f6e40f956f2224295aac14d8554dd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-040 (2019A) — Establish Colorado Fire Commission

Colorado fire commission - creation - powers and duties - repeal - appropriation. The Colorado fire commission (commission) is created in the division of fire prevention and control in the department of public safety. The commission's purpose is to enhance public safety in Colorado through an integrated statewide process focused on the fire service's capacity to conduct fire management and use, preparedness, prevention, and response activities to safeguard lives, property, and natural resources, and increase the resiliency of local and regional communities. The commission is charged with developing an accurate understanding of Colorado's fire problems, reviewing the current emergency fire fund program, evaluating the funding mechanisms for effective response to large fires, assessing the capacity of the state to provide emergency fire support and technical expertise to local communities, developing performance measures of overall response effectiveness, strengthening statewide and regional coordination, developing best practice recommendations related to high-risk occupancies, developing and publishing an assessment of fire treatment costs and cost distribution, developing methodical approaches to Colorado's fire service concerns, and forecasting upcoming funding and resource challenges. The commission may establish task forces to study and make recommendations on specific subjects within the commission's areas of study. The commission is repealed, effective September 1, 2024, and is subject to a sunset review prior to its repeal.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/21/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/24/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/03/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 60–4 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
• Terri Carver — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Rural Affairs & Agriculture Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Rural Affairs & Agriculture introduction
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a88cb1b0-5f01-4b99-a02f-f20ceda9beb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).