republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1308.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster Care Prevention Services"
description: "Child welfare - foster care prevention services - qualified residential treatment programs - federal compliance. The act authorizes the department of human services (department) to establish and implement a foster care prevention services program for families with children and youth who are candidates for foster care but who can safely remain at home with receipt of foster care prevention services. Eligible recipients of foster care prevention services include children and youth and their parents, legal custodians, legal guardians, and kin caregivers when their needs are directly related to the safety, permanent placement, or well-being of the child or youth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1308"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1308 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Rankin", "Dominick Moreno", "Jonathan Singer", "Lois Landgraf"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a438ac9-8e33-457a-946c-5239a3e0073c"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1308"
source_hash: "7a9dd449e31d6dda23f53da21e0fd6ec5712078ab87f945e0750352a5d79f708"
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 19-1308 (2019A) — Foster Care Prevention Services

Child welfare - foster care prevention services - qualified residential treatment programs - federal compliance. The act authorizes the department of human services (department) to establish and implement a foster care prevention services program for families with children and youth who are candidates for foster care but who can safely remain at home with receipt of foster care prevention services. Eligible recipients of foster care prevention services include children and youth and their parents, legal custodians, legal guardians, and kin caregivers when their needs are directly related to the safety, permanent placement, or well-being of the child or youth.

## 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_hb1308_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1308_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1308_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1308_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1308phc_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1308_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1308_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1308_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1308_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Rankin — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
- Lois Landgraf — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-23T06:00:00+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`
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a438ac9-8e33-457a-946c-5239a3e0073c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).