republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-238.md

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

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	Improve Wages And Accountability Home Care Workers	Home care agencies - department to request increase in federal reimbursement rate for certain services - minimum wage - wage pass-through requirement - training - appropriation. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to request from the federal government an increase of 8.1% in the reimbursement rate for certain services delivered to consumers through the home- and community-based services waivers. For the 2019-20 fiscal year, each home care agency (agency) shall pay 100% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide personal care services, homemaker services, and in-home support services (covered services) to consumers. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, each agency shall pay 85% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide covered services to consumers.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-238	Colorado SB 19-238 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Chris Kennedy Dominick Moreno Jessie Danielson Monica Duran	10	14	3	2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/029dc294-edf6-4a66-b407-7a45a0e37f49	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-238	c50d94362938fcd92c2e6a5b93ed4f48d0652fd9afa9edaee47122ad079d85a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-238 (2019A) — Improve Wages And Accountability Home Care Workers

Home care agencies - department to request increase in federal reimbursement rate for certain services - minimum wage - wage pass-through requirement - training - appropriation. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (department) to request from the federal government an increase of 8.1% in the reimbursement rate for certain services delivered to consumers through the home- and community-based services waivers. For the 2019-20 fiscal year, each home care agency (agency) shall pay 100% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide personal care services, homemaker services, and in-home support services (covered services) to consumers. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, each agency shall pay 85% of the funding that results from the rate increase as compensation for employees who provide covered services to consumers.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/11/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 46–19 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 25–39 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Monica Duran — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-17T06:00:00+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
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/029dc294-edf6-4a66-b407-7a45a0e37f49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).