republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1282.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Court-appointed Special Advocate Program Oversight"
description: "Court-appointed special advocate programs - program oversight. The act relocates provisions concerning the statewide oversight of court-appointed special advocate (CASA) programs. The office of the child's representative (office) is required to enter into an agreement with a nonprofit entity (state CASA entity) to enhance the CASA program in Colorado. The state CASA entity is required to submit a report to the office concerning the performance of its duties within one month prior to receiving an allocation of money for CASA programs and, at least annually, must certify to the office the amount that each local CASA program receives from each allocation.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1282"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1282 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Jim Smallwood", "Jonathan Singer", "Kerry Donovan"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddf40f44-eaf3-468b-860f-220f9b804882"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1282"
source_hash: "b8016a8015f1ed7ee7f2593aa85968aa2a37b813c3b01da08f12ab44f3040514"
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 19-1282 (2019A) — Court-appointed Special Advocate Program Oversight

Court-appointed special advocate programs - program oversight. The act relocates provisions concerning the statewide oversight of court-appointed special advocate (CASA) programs. The office of the child's representative (office) is required to enter into an agreement with a nonprofit entity (state CASA entity) to enhance the CASA program in Colorado. The state CASA entity is required to submit a report to the office concerning the performance of its duties within one month prior to receiving an allocation of money for CASA programs and, at least annually, must certify to the office the amount that each local CASA program receives from each allocation.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## 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_hb1282_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282_rn2.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1282_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1282_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
- Kerry Donovan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddf40f44-eaf3-468b-860f-220f9b804882`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).