republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-178.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Program To Subsidize Adoption For Children And Youth"
description: "Adoption assistance program - department of human services - appropriation. The act repeals and reenacts provisions of the state's adoption assistance program (adoption program) that provides cash subsidies and other noncash benefits to families who adopt eligible children and youth who might not otherwise be adopted in order to update the adoption program. The department of human services (state department) supervises the administration of the adoption program by county departments of human or social services (county departments)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-178"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-178 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan Singer", "Mike Foote"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4181c816-2a83-4356-8b8f-0366571a5240"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-178"
source_hash: "93c9c4ddd1f99bdaaf2785fb295e1d00812ff3a554a9f75766000554446b81a1"
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 19-178 (2019A) — Program To Subsidize Adoption For Children And Youth

Adoption assistance program - department of human services - appropriation. The act repeals and reenacts provisions of the state's adoption assistance program (adoption program) that provides cash subsidies and other noncash benefits to families who adopt eligible children and youth who might not otherwise be adopted in order to update the adoption program. The department of human services (state department) supervises the administration of the adoption program by county departments of human or social services (county departments).

## 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_sb178_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178sfin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178phc_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178app.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (03/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_178_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_178_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
- Mike Foote — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4181c816-2a83-4356-8b8f-0366571a5240`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).