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Bill	Change Maximum Criminal Penalty One Year To 364 Days	Criminal sentencing - misdemeanors and municipal violations - change maximum penalty from one year to 364 days. Under current law, the maximum sentence for a class 2 misdemeanor, level 2 drug misdemeanor, a misdemeanor without a fixed statutory penalty, and a municipal ordinance violation is one year. The act changes the maximum sentence to 364 days.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1148	Colorado HB 19-1148 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Leslie Herod	8	12	2	2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b4e63267-7339-43fc-a341-02fb3d19a122	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1148	4be824aca1a4a44c7b0a545ab501648b7138fc95ef95f6c3562503fdbce525f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1148 (2019A) — Change Maximum Criminal Penalty One Year To 364 Days

Criminal sentencing - misdemeanors and municipal violations - change maximum penalty from one year to 364 days. Under current law, the maximum sentence for a class 2 misdemeanor, level 2 drug misdemeanor, a misdemeanor without a fixed statutory penalty, and a municipal ordinance violation is one year. The act changes the maximum sentence to 364 days.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/07/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 41–21 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 24–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4e63267-7339-43fc-a341-02fb3d19a122. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).