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type: "Bill"
title: "Affordable Housing Funding From Vendor Fee Changes"
description: "Vendor fee rate increase - use of increased funds for affordable housing grants and loans. Beginning January 1, 2020, the act increases the vendor fee, which is an amount that a retailer is permitted to retain for its expenses incurred in collecting and remitting the state sales tax, from 3% to 4%, subject to a $1,000 monthly cap. This limit applies regardless of the number of the retailer's locations, and a vendor with multiple locations is required to register all locations under one account with the department of revenue."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1245"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1245 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Gonzales", "Michael Weissman", "Mike Foote"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/514d6c62-2c77-4c2f-9e6b-72f0307edcfd"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1245"
source_hash: "5591ffb8118f0be07df68e60e3dce0f7c7a77def7cfd505a56d42fa766856982"
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 19-1245 (2019A) — Affordable Housing Funding From Vendor Fee Changes
Vendor fee rate increase - use of increased funds for affordable housing grants and loans. Beginning January 1, 2020, the act increases the vendor fee, which is an amount that a retailer is permitted to retain for its expenses incurred in collecting and remitting the state sales tax, from 3% to 4%, subject to a $1,000 monthly cap. This limit applies regardless of the number of the retailer's locations, and a vendor with multiple locations is required to register all locations under one account with the department of revenue.
## 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_hb1245_s_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245app.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245sfin_01.pdf)
8. **PA4 (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245sfinapp.pdf)
9. **Reengrossed (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245_ren.pdf)
10. **Rerevised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245_rer.pdf)
11. **Revised (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1245_rev.pdf)
12. **Signed Act (05/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1245_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- AMD — **2834** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **3628** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **2834** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **3925** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **2438** (fail) · lower
- REPASS — **3727** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **2312** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Michael Weissman — primary (person)
- Mike Foote — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **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
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15T06:00:00+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/514d6c62-2c77-4c2f-9e6b-72f0307edcfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).