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Bill	Lobbyist Transparency Act	Regulation of lobbyists - clarification of term "client" - heightened disclosure requirements - secretary of state to convene working group to consider upgrades to electronic filing system used by lobbyists - appropriation. The act clarifies that the term "client" used in connection with statutory provisions regulating lobbyists means the person who employs or retains the professional services of one or more lobbyists to undertake lobbying on behalf of that person. The act also clarifies that a professional lobbyist is not, for purposes of the statute, a client of either a lobbying firm or any other person that employs or retains one or more professional lobbyists to undertake lobbying on behalf of one or more clients.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1248	Colorado HB 19-1248 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Lisa Cutter Michael Weissman Mike Foote	10	17	5	2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/296f29a4-ec03-4aba-8c6b-113a4abfffcb	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1248	6230c5b780bac0d5c5de035cd480f03ccdbab1e6251ac41701f77b28274dd3a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1248 (2019A) — Lobbyist Transparency Act

Regulation of lobbyists - clarification of term "client" - heightened disclosure requirements - secretary of state to convene working group to consider upgrades to electronic filing system used by lobbyists - appropriation. The act clarifies that the term "client" used in connection with statutory provisions regulating lobbyists means the person who employs or retains the professional services of one or more lobbyists to undertake lobbying on behalf of that person. The act also clarifies that a professional lobbyist is not, for purposes of the statute, a client of either a lobbying firm or any other person that employs or retains one or more professional lobbyists to undertake lobbying on behalf of one or more clients.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 43–22 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 48–17 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 20–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Michael Weissman — primary (person)
• Mike Foote — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2019-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/296f29a4-ec03-4aba-8c6b-113a4abfffcb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).