republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-085.md

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Bill	Equal Pay For Equal Work Act	Wage discrimination based on sex - complaints - civil action - exceptions to prohibitions against wage differentials - prohibited acts of employer - employment announcements required - enforcement - rules. The act removes the authority of the director of the division of labor standards and statistics in the department of labor and employment (director) to enforce wage discrimination complaints based on an employee's sex and instead authorizes the director to create and administer a process to accept and mediate complaints of, and provide legal resources concerning, alleged violations and to promulgate rules for this purpose. An aggrieved person may bring a civil action in district court to pursue remedies specified in the act.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-085	Colorado SB 19-085 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Janet Buckner Jessie Danielson Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	11	21	11	2019-01-17T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8b310850-eb3e-4a6a-adb7-e6b84920058d	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-085	0c4e4032a5a2b65592b040385844ba886f9cacecf8f06da881fd73bc010f9bca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-085 (2019A) — Equal Pay For Equal Work Act

Wage discrimination based on sex - complaints - civil action - exceptions to prohibitions against wage differentials - prohibited acts of employer - employment announcements required - enforcement - rules. The act removes the authority of the director of the division of labor standards and statistics in the department of labor and employment (director) to enforce wage discrimination complaints based on an employee's sex and instead authorizes the director to create and administer a process to accept and mediate complaints of, and provide legal resources concerning, alleged violations and to promulgate rules for this purpose. An aggrieved person may bring a civil action in district court to pursue remedies specified in the act.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.031 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (04/03/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (01/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (02/21/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA2 (04/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 40–21 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• COW * — 16–19 (fail) · upper
• AMD — 22–38 (fail) · upper
• AMD — 30–30 (fail) · upper
• AMD — 22–38 (fail) · upper
• REPASS — 21–14 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 22–38 (fail) · upper
• AMD — 21–39 (fail) · upper
• AMD — 22–38 (fail) · upper
• CONCUR — 23–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction
• 2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-17T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b310850-eb3e-4a6a-adb7-e6b84920058d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).