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Bill	Use CSP II To House Inmates In An Emergency	State prisons - bed shortages - CSP II - input from prison population interim committee. Under current law, the Centennial south campus of the Centennial correctional facility (CSP II) is not available to house inmates. The act allows CSP II to be used to house inmates when the state male prison vacant bed rate, excluding RTP treatment beds, remains below one percent vacancy for 2 consecutive months. Once the prison population surpasses one percent vacancy, the department of corrections (department) shall transfer any inmates housed in CSP II to an appropriate facility under the department's control within 30 calendar days. No more than 126 inmates may be housed at CSP II.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-259	Colorado SB 19-259 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Dennis Hisey James Wilson Leroy Garcia Leslie Herod	10	17	8	2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/462c7830-f890-4b06-97bb-25378d6b8b80	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-259	83d58ad2d7c21721c85bb2e5e162591de7702a30da4b439b59c0a238fc806b1e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-259 (2019A) — Use CSP II To House Inmates In An Emergency

State prisons - bed shortages - CSP II - input from prison population interim committee. Under current law, the Centennial south campus of the Centennial correctional facility (CSP II) is not available to house inmates. The act allows CSP II to be used to house inmates when the state male prison vacant bed rate, excluding RTP treatment beds, remains below one percent vacancy for 2 consecutive months. Once the prison population surpasses one percent vacancy, the department of corrections (department) shall transfer any inmates housed in CSP II to an appropriate facility under the department's control within 30 calendar days. No more than 126 inmates may be housed at CSP II.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/24/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/02/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• NOT CONCUR APPT CC — 33–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 58–5 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 62–1 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT — 62–1 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 34–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · lower
• BYD SCP — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 34–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
• James Wilson — primary (person)
• Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
• 2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/462c7830-f890-4b06-97bb-25378d6b8b80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).