republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-172.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	Protect From Unlawful Abandonment And Confinement	At-risk persons - unlawful abandonment - false imprisonment - appropriation. The act makes it a crime to unlawfully abandon an at-risk person. The intentional and unreasonable desertion of an at-risk person in a manner that endangers the safety of that person constitutes unlawful abandonment. Unlawful abandonment is a class 1 misdemeanor.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-172	Colorado SB 19-172 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Jessie Danielson Joann Ginal Jonathan Singer	11	17	4	2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ac221ffc-b8dd-4791-9bb8-e0ced67811cb	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-172	183f0a543fc1625e30bdcfe985021927fac347789f20c1df1c723c9aa8cbf0a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-172 (2019A) — Protect From Unlawful Abandonment And Confinement

At-risk persons - unlawful abandonment - false imprisonment - appropriation. The act makes it a crime to unlawfully abandon an at-risk person. The intentional and unreasonable desertion of an at-risk person in a manner that endangers the safety of that person constitutes unlawful abandonment. Unlawful abandonment is a class 1 misdemeanor.

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 (05/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Jonathan Singer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 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 - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac221ffc-b8dd-4791-9bb8-e0ced67811cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).