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type: "Bill"
title: "Restore Voting Rights Parolees"
description: "Individuals serving a sentence of parole - eligibility to register and vote - meaning of full term of imprisonment - appropriation. Existing law prohibits a person serving a sentence of parole from being eligible to register to vote or to vote in any election. The act declares that the purposes of parole are served by restoring the vote to persons serving a sentence of parole."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1266"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1266 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leslie Herod", "Stephen Fenberg"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9907160-66b2-4a00-9c73-6479b96f291c"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1266"
source_hash: "a17bd4bae41c0f77a35fbb6c2edd0fe574ae0d8cb58ae1d915c96d7487368e97"
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 19-1266 (2019A) — Restore Voting Rights Parolees
Individuals serving a sentence of parole - eligibility to register and vote - meaning of full term of imprisonment - appropriation. Existing law prohibits a person serving a sentence of parole from being eligible to register to vote or to vote in any election. The act declares that the purposes of parole are served by restoring the vote to persons serving a sentence of parole.
## 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_hb1266_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266sa_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1266_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1266_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **45–19** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22T06:00:00+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/c9907160-66b2-4a00-9c73-6479b96f291c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).