republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1162.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expand Farm Equipment Sales And Use Tax Exemption"
description: "State sales tax exemption for farm equipment - extension - applicability to local sales taxes. Current law exempts cow identification systems and transponders used by a farm dairy to identify and track dairy cows from the state sales and use tax but does not otherwise exempt any equipment or systems used by a farm operation to identify or track food animals. By amending the statutory definition of \"farm equipment\", the act extends the existing state sales and use tax exemption to include, regardless of purchase price, any visual, electronic identification, or matched pair ear tags and electronic identification readers used to scan ear tags that are used by a farm operation to identify or track food animals, including animals used for food or in the production of food. Under the act the extension of the exemption only applies to a county or municipal sales tax if the county or municipality amends its sales tax ordinance to include the extension of the exemption.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1162"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1162 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Donald Valdez", "Jerry Sonnenberg", "Leroy Garcia", "Rod Pelton"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a670ab2d-087f-47ef-ac85-7cc7d16bd21e"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1162"
source_hash: "502f3d0040a8f0f45d5851c0bbd38087c390e58a67e333dc57e1401533b138fc"
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 19-1162 (2019A) — Expand Farm Equipment Sales And Use Tax Exemption

State sales tax exemption for farm equipment - extension - applicability to local sales taxes. Current law exempts cow identification systems and transponders used by a farm dairy to identify and track dairy cows from the state sales and use tax but does not otherwise exempt any equipment or systems used by a farm operation to identify or track food animals. By amending the statutory definition of "farm equipment", the act extends the existing state sales and use tax exemption to include, regardless of purchase price, any visual, electronic identification, or matched pair ear tags and electronic identification readers used to scan ear tags that are used by a farm operation to identify or track food animals, including animals used for food or in the production of food. Under the act the extension of the exemption only applies to a county or municipal sales tax if the county or municipality amends its sales tax ordinance to include the extension of the exemption.(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_hb1162_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1162_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1162_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1162_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1162raa_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1162_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1162_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1162_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1162_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Donald Valdez — primary (person)
- Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
- Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
- Rod Pelton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **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 Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **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
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Rural Affairs & Agriculture Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Rural Affairs & Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a670ab2d-087f-47ef-ac85-7cc7d16bd21e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).