republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1229.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic Preservation Of Abandoned Estate Documents"
description: "Estate planning documents - abandoned documents - preservation. The act creates the \"Colorado Electronic Preservation of Abandoned Estate Planning Documents Act\", which provides a procedure for determining whether an original will document (original document) is abandoned and, if so, the process for creating an electronic estate planning document (electronic document) of the abandoned original document, filing the electronic document with the state court administrator within the judicial department, and destruction of the original document. A will document includes, but is not limited to, wills, codicils, documents purporting to be wills, and other testamentary documents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1229"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1229 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Dylan Roberts", "Marc Snyder", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/913677fb-84a1-4082-bc63-97a573da6709"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1229"
source_hash: "0e211ff1289428f2442d5b557e78a004d6276017a5c23899c325af59ea150aa5"
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 19-1229 (2019A) — Electronic Preservation Of Abandoned Estate Documents

Estate planning documents - abandoned documents - preservation. The act creates the "Colorado Electronic Preservation of Abandoned Estate Planning Documents Act", which provides a procedure for determining whether an original will document (original document) is abandoned and, if so, the process for creating an electronic estate planning document (electronic document) of the abandoned original document, filing the electronic document with the state court administrator within the judicial department, and destruction of the original document. A will document includes, but is not limited to, wills, codicils, documents purporting to be wills, and other testamentary documents.

## 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_hb1229_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229sa_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229fin.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1229_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1229_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **60–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **52–10** (pass) · upper
- PERM — **52–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Marc Snyder — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-22T06:00:00+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
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/913677fb-84a1-4082-bc63-97a573da6709`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).