republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-128.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Finance Mid-year Adjustments"
description: "School finance - mid-year adjustment to state share of total program funding - appropriation. The general assembly recognizes that the actual funded pupil count and the actual at-risk pupil count for the 2018-19 budget year are lower than anticipated when the appropriation amount was established during the 2018 legislative session. In addition, local property tax and specific ownership tax receipts are more than anticipated, increasing the local share of total program funding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-128"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-128 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "Daneya Esgar", "Dominick Moreno", "Nancy Todd"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-02-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5654a860-1c83-4b8d-b675-440c8178967a"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-128"
source_hash: "a0dbed07aed757fe5ccc2f3de5e453467b0ec4458d924ffa638d595c052ebaf8"
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 SB 19-128 (2019A) — School Finance Mid-year Adjustments

School finance - mid-year adjustment to state share of total program funding - appropriation. The general assembly recognizes that the actual funded pupil count and the actual at-risk pupil count for the 2018-19 budget year are lower than anticipated when the appropriation amount was established during the 2018 legislative session. In addition, local property tax and specific ownership tax receipts are more than anticipated, increasing the local share of total program funding.

## 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_sb128_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_128_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_128_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_128_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_128_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_128_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_128_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_128_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **65–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT — **63–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BYD SCP — **64–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- NOT CONCUR APPT CC — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **60–3** (pass) · upper
- PERM — **25–38** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2019-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Reengrossed w/ Amendments
- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2019-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2019-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5654a860-1c83-4b8d-b675-440c8178967a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).