republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-183.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alternate Procedure To Reorganize School Districts"
description: "School districts - organization. The act creates an alternate process for the dissolution and annexation of a school district. Pursuant to the act, if a school district meets specified criteria, the board of education of the school district (local school board) may seek dissolution and annexation of the school district by convening an organization planning committee (committee) that consists of representation from the local school board of the dissolving school district and the local school boards of the contiguous school districts. The local school board of the dissolving school district must notify the commissioner of education (commissioner) when a committee is formed. The committee must create a proposed plan of organization (plan) that dissolves the convening school district and annexes the territory of the dissolved school district to one or more of the contiguous school districts. The act specifies the issues that the committee must consider in creating the plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-183"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-183 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "James Wilson", "Kevin Priola", "Nancy Todd"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/354e06b5-662e-49d7-ac46-eb7330fd657f"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-183"
source_hash: "a8bf37ae330a569b49feb1576a93d861bcc89b5f8b88448ce0533d6afff4503b"
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 19-183 (2019A) — Alternate Procedure To Reorganize School Districts

School districts - organization. The act creates an alternate process for the dissolution and annexation of a school district. Pursuant to the act, if a school district meets specified criteria, the board of education of the school district (local school board) may seek dissolution and annexation of the school district by convening an organization planning committee (committee) that consists of representation from the local school board of the dissolving school district and the local school boards of the contiguous school districts. The local school board of the dissolving school district must notify the commissioner of education (commissioner) when a committee is formed. The committee must create a proposed plan of organization (plan) that dissolves the convening school district and annexes the territory of the dissolved school district to one or more of the contiguous school districts. The act specifies the issues that the committee must consider in creating the plan.

## 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_sb183_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_183_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_183_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_183_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_183_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_183_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_183_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_183_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **62–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- James Wilson — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `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 - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/354e06b5-662e-49d7-ac46-eb7330fd657f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).