republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-227.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	Harm Reduction Substance Use Disorders	Substance use disorders - school districts, nonpublic schools, and specified public persons may obtain and administer opiate antagonists - definition of drug paraphernalia - hospitals as clean syringe exchange sites - opiate antagonist bulk purchase fund - household medication take-back program - identity verification for individuals initiating into treatment - appropriation. The act:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-227	Colorado SB 19-227 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Chris Kennedy Julie Gonzales Leslie Herod	10	15	4	2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c757617f-c51e-4453-ae64-abb5af4f5b1a	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-227	15f04eb4d8fe136a033d22165fa84894ca4c73c6143dea0a3731f1e10b8d5f45	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-227 (2019A) — Harm Reduction Substance Use Disorders

Substance use disorders - school districts, nonpublic schools, and specified public persons may obtain and administer opiate antagonists - definition of drug paraphernalia - hospitals as clean syringe exchange sites - opiate antagonist bulk purchase fund - household medication take-back program - identity verification for individuals initiating into treatment - appropriation. The act:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/24/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 24–40 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 28–7 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 29–35 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-23T06:00:00+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 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c757617f-c51e-4453-ae64-abb5af4f5b1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).