republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-220.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	Hemp Regulation Alignment With 2018 Federal Farm Bill	Industrial hemp - alignment with federal law - state plan of regulation. In 2018, the federal government enacted the "Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018" (federal act), which removed hemp from schedule I of the federal "Controlled Substances Act". The federal act requires the United States department of agriculture (USDA) to develop a plan for the regulation of hemp and authorizes each state to seek approval from the USDA to have primary regulatory authority over hemp production within the state by preparing and submitting a state plan of regulation to the secretary of the USDA.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-220	Colorado SB 19-220 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Jeni James Arndt Lori Saine Stephen Fenberg Vicki Marble	11	17	4	2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7d9f37e9-e996-4abf-a731-b4cfe2805212	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-220	d27922beecc04e6390195350c0c2099217426513ae8033ce41f67ff0339e4977	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-220 (2019A) — Hemp Regulation Alignment With 2018 Federal Farm Bill

Industrial hemp - alignment with federal law - state plan of regulation. In 2018, the federal government enacted the "Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018" (federal act), which removed hemp from schedule I of the federal "Controlled Substances Act". The federal act requires the United States department of agriculture (USDA) to develop a plan for the regulation of hemp and authorizes each state to seek approval from the USDA to have primary regulatory authority over hemp production within the state by preparing and submitting a state plan of regulation to the secretary of the USDA.

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 (03/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/05/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/24/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 64–1 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)
• Lori Saine — primary (person)
• Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)
• Vicki Marble — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-29T06:00:00+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
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs 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, Floor
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d9f37e9-e996-4abf-a731-b4cfe2805212. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).