republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1267.md

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Bill	Penalties For Failure To Pay Wages	Theft - wages - failure to pay wages - paying less than the minimum wage. The act defines wage theft as theft, which is a felony when the theft is of an amount greater than $2,000. The act adds refusing to pay wages or compensation with the intent to coerce a person who is owed wages as conduct that constitutes wage theft. The act removes the exemption from criminal penalties for an employer who is unable to pay wages or compensation because of a chapter 7 bankruptcy action or other court action resulting in the employer having limited control over his or her assets.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1267	Colorado HB 19-1267 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Jessie Danielson Jonathan Singer Meg Froelich Robert Rodriguez	9	15	2	2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3b672c04-1e98-4da7-ac69-a7c335ed5910	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1267	e6cfe21d390b80719b6ba99d84600fc1562cb37c8b7e88402b8fa4c5319959ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1267 (2019A) — Penalties For Failure To Pay Wages

Theft - wages - failure to pay wages - paying less than the minimum wage. The act defines wage theft as theft, which is a felony when the theft is of an amount greater than $2,000. The act adds refusing to pay wages or compensation with the intent to coerce a person who is owed wages as conduct that constitutes wage theft. The act removes the exemption from criminal penalties for an employer who is unable to pay wages or compensation because of a chapter 7 bankruptcy action or other court action resulting in the employer having limited control over his or her assets.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/24/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services 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, Floor
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b672c04-1e98-4da7-ac69-a7c335ed5910. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).