republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1113.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 Water Quality Adverse Mining Impacts	Hard rock mining - mined land reclamation board - reclamation plan - water quality treatment - financial assurance. Current law does not address reliance on perpetual water treatment as the means to minimize impacts to water quality in a reclamation plan for a mining operation. Section 1 of the act requires most reclamation plans to demonstrate, by substantial evidence, a reasonably foreseeable end date for any water quality treatment necessary to ensure compliance with applicable water quality standards.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1113	Colorado HB 19-1113 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Dylan Roberts Kerry Donovan	10	16	5	2019-01-15T07:00:00+00:00	2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d2a75f68-b62b-4a19-87b1-458f918fc9a8	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1113	de1d6a7d9729bef7e1f5dd0296556a4ce72eebf326db1371ec138d94285cfddf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1113 (2019A) — Protect Water Quality Adverse Mining Impacts

Hard rock mining - mined land reclamation board - reclamation plan - water quality treatment - financial assurance. Current law does not address reliance on perpetual water treatment as the means to minimize impacts to water quality in a reclamation plan for a mining operation. Section 1 of the act requires most reclamation plans to demonstrate, by substantial evidence, a reasonably foreseeable end date for any water quality treatment necessary to ensure compliance with applicable water quality standards.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/06/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/06/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/07/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/14/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• COW * — 16–18 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 22–13 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 46–18 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 49–15 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 44–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Kerry Donovan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over to 03/18/2019
• 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction
• 2019-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Rural Affairs & Agriculture Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Rural Affairs & Agriculture introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2a75f68-b62b-4a19-87b1-458f918fc9a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).