republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-229.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Campaign Contributions Dependent Care Expenses"
description: "Use of campaign contributions received for reasonable and necessary expenses - care of children or other dependents. The act permits a candidate committee established in the name of a candidate to expend contributions received and accepted during any particular election cycle to reimburse the candidate for reasonable and necessary expenses for the care of children or other dependents the candidate incurs directly in connection with his or her campaign activities during the election cycle. The candidate committee is required to disclose these expenditures in the same manner as any other expenditures the committee is required to disclose.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-229"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-229 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Kyle Mullica", "Mike Foote", "Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d64386ae-64b2-40f2-8e98-6eee60f62745"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-229"
source_hash: "f5c8a6d68e04982bb23efb0ef72bd94a6685f8cd4dcd78b43e1e83f7f3331adf"
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 19-229 (2019A) — Campaign Contributions Dependent Care Expenses

Use of campaign contributions received for reasonable and necessary expenses - care of children or other dependents. The act permits a candidate committee established in the name of a candidate to expend contributions received and accepted during any particular election cycle to reimburse the candidate for reasonable and necessary expenses for the care of children or other dependents the candidate incurs directly in connection with his or her campaign activities during the election cycle. The candidate committee is required to disclose these expenditures in the same manner as any other expenditures the committee is required to disclose.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## 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_sb229_h_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_229_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_229_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_229_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_229_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_229_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_229_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_229_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **43–21** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **26–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
- Mike Foote — primary (person)
- Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30T06:00:00+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** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d64386ae-64b2-40f2-8e98-6eee60f62745`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).