republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1278.md

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Bill	Modifications To Uniform Election Code	Uniform Election Code of 1992 - modifications - appropriation. The act makes changes to the "Uniform Election Code of 1992" (code), including changes to procedures for voter registration, including registration on Indian reservations; ballot access requirements, including changes to the number of signatures required on candidate petitions and requiring licensing and training for petition entities; political party organization filing requirements; procedures for in-person voting, including allowing a person who does not reside in a county but wishes to vote at a polling location to cast a ballot that contains statewide federal and state offices and questions; requirements for the content of an election plan; procedures for curing ballots; and requirements for recall petitions, including allowing the incumbent to file a statement to included on the petition and changes to the procedures for curing petitions. The formulas and hours for drop boxes and voter service and polling centers are revised, and counties are required to locate some drop boxes and voter service and polling centers on higher education campuses and Indian reservations. Seventeen year olds who are preregistered and who will be eighteen on the date of the next general election are allowed to participate in primary elections and caucuses. A person may seek a court order to keep polling locations open past the regular closing time on election day when voting at or access to a polling location has been substantially impaired. The secretary of state is required to complete updates to the statewide voter registration database to reduce wait times at polling locations. The act makes additional technical changes and corrections to the code.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1278	Colorado HB 19-1278 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Stephen Fenberg Susan Lontine	12	16	7	2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cdfb5e4a-e6bf-4a40-bf0e-4ae8d521881c	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1278	71c98bc14ce631f89ff6e83d4724f9c9608e55c07d25ad140746c4fd0e8b6610	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1278 (2019A) — Modifications To Uniform Election Code

Uniform Election Code of 1992 - modifications - appropriation. The act makes changes to the "Uniform Election Code of 1992" (code), including changes to procedures for voter registration, including registration on Indian reservations; ballot access requirements, including changes to the number of signatures required on candidate petitions and requiring licensing and training for petition entities; political party organization filing requirements; procedures for in-person voting, including allowing a person who does not reside in a county but wishes to vote at a polling location to cast a ballot that contains statewide federal and state offices and questions; requirements for the content of an election plan; procedures for curing ballots; and requirements for recall petitions, including allowing the incumbent to file a statement to included on the petition and changes to the procedures for curing petitions. The formulas and hours for drop boxes and voter service and polling centers are revised, and counties are required to locate some drop boxes and voter service and polling centers on higher education campuses and Indian reservations. Seventeen year olds who are preregistered and who will be eighteen on the date of the next general election are allowed to participate in primary elections and caucuses. A person may seek a court order to keep polling locations open past the regular closing time on election day when voting at or access to a polling location has been substantially impaired. The secretary of state is required to complete updates to the statewide voter registration database to reduce wait times at polling locations. The act makes additional technical changes and corrections to the code.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 18–17 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 38–27 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 37–27 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 61–3 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 49–16 (pass) · lower
• PERM — 58–6 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 24–40 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)
• Susan Lontine — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+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
• 2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cdfb5e4a-e6bf-4a40-bf0e-4ae8d521881c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).