republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-143.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Parole Changes	Prison population management - file review - technical violations revoke parole - parolee intensive treatment program - full board approval circumstance - reentry services if not released on parole - table parole review - appropriation. Under current law, there are prison population measures that can be used when the vacancy rate drops below 2%. The act changes the rate to 3% and adds a new measure. The new measure allows the department to submit a list of inmates who meet a specified eligibility criteria, have a favorable parole plan, and have been assessed to be less than high risk to the parole board for a file review.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-143	Colorado SB 19-143 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Leslie Herod Pete Lee	12	16	4	2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b4e0384e-e253-4ccc-a4ef-2515397ca9a7	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-143	89879637bb66fdad6fba785578902970138b6fff8f659d9997548b86c5fb4ddc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-143 (2019A) — Parole Changes

Prison population management - file review - technical violations revoke parole - parolee intensive treatment program - full board approval circumstance - reentry services if not released on parole - table parole review - appropriation. Under current law, there are prison population measures that can be used when the vacancy rate drops below 2%. The act changes the rate to 3% and adds a new measure. The new measure allows the department to submit a list of inmates who meet a specified eligibility criteria, have a favorable parole plan, and have been assessed to be less than high risk to the parole board for a file review.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/21/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 30–5 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 43–22 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Pete Lee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+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 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4e0384e-e253-4ccc-a4ef-2515397ca9a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).