republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1159.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Modify Innovative Motor Vehicle Income Tax Credits"
description: "Income tax - credit - innovative motor vehicles. The act modifies the amounts of and extends the number of available years of the existing income tax credits for the purchase or lease of an electric motor vehicle, a plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle, and an original equipment manufacturer electric truck and plug-in hybrid electric truck.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1159"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1159 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "Matt Gray", "Sonya Jaquez Lewis"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-31T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fd268b9-4448-427f-86d6-4d595f5e3acc"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1159"
source_hash: "fe7bb4bd433f18840f400ce06894781de6842441aae2ed4b2300e493be424142"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 19-1159 (2019A) — Modify Innovative Motor Vehicle Income Tax Credits

Income tax - credit - innovative motor vehicles. The act modifies the amounts of and extends the number of available years of the existing income tax credits for the purchase or lease of an electric motor vehicle, a plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle, and an original equipment manufacturer electric truck and plug-in hybrid electric truck.(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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1159_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159app.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159sfin_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1159_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/31/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1159_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **40–25** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–14** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **40–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Matt Gray — primary (person)
- Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-31T06:00:00+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 President of the Senate
- **2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment + Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fd268b9-4448-427f-86d6-4d595f5e3acc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).