republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-186.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expand Agricultural Chemical Management Program Protect Surface Water"
description: "Commissioner of agriculture - agricultural chemical management plans - expansion to include surface water - appropriation. Under current law, the commissioner of agriculture is responsible for the management of the use of agricultural chemicals to protect groundwater, and the commissioner adopts rules establishing agricultural management plans for this purpose. The act expands the scope of the commissioner's agricultural management plans to include the protection of state waters, which includes surface and subsurface waters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-186"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-186 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Jeni James Arndt", "Kerry Donovan", "Marc Catlin"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-03T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31cee0ac-659a-40fc-aee3-2e71a0f29d0f"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-186"
source_hash: "6cff21201ff4cff510b850da70915bb002bb8c75d765e65f0b588f98d1ae99a0"
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 19-186 (2019A) — Expand Agricultural Chemical Management Program Protect Surface Water

Commissioner of agriculture - agricultural chemical management plans - expansion to include surface water - appropriation. Under current law, the commissioner of agriculture is responsible for the management of the use of agricultural chemicals to protect groundwater, and the commissioner adopts rules establishing agricultural management plans for this purpose. The act expands the scope of the commissioner's agricultural management plans to include the protection of state waters, which includes surface and subsurface waters.

## 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_sb186_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186sfin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186sfinapp.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_186_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_186_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **55–10** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **25–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)
- Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Rural Affairs & Agriculture Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Rural Affairs & Agriculture `introduction`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31cee0ac-659a-40fc-aee3-2e71a0f29d0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).