republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-109.md

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Bill	Adjust Damages Limitations For Inflation	Limitations on damages - adjustment for inflation every 2 years. The limitations on the amount of damages for unlawfully serving alcohol, for noneconomic loss or injury, and for wrongful death were last adjusted for inflation on January 1, 2008. The act adjusts those damage limitations for inflation on January 1, 2020, and each January 1 every 2 years thereafter.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-109	Colorado SB 19-109 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Alec Garnett Stephen Fenberg	8	13	2	2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00	2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/40917b8f-b459-4d4b-bef5-3b8bb32fa9c5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-109	770898b7f5831fb02bba06bb7fc396a4a1c07d88b2d5ae119d4c9d3bffd4f530	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-109 (2019A) — Adjust Damages Limitations For Inflation

Limitations on damages - adjustment for inflation every 2 years. The limitations on the amount of damages for unlawfully serving alcohol, for noneconomic loss or injury, and for wrongful death were last adjusted for inflation on January 1, 2008. The act adjusts those damage limitations for inflation on January 1, 2020, and each January 1 every 2 years thereafter.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/14/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/31/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 18–16 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 40–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alec Garnett — primary (person)
• Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/40917b8f-b459-4d4b-bef5-3b8bb32fa9c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).