diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 1c59686f16c..957b8d8528d 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ swift_rules_dependencies()
 # files, in case the parsing of those build files depends on the bazel
 # version we require here.
 load("//tensorflow:version_check.bzl", "check_bazel_version_at_least")
-check_bazel_version_at_least("0.18.0")
+check_bazel_version_at_least("0.19.0")
 
 load("//tensorflow:workspace.bzl", "tf_workspace")
 
diff --git a/third_party/toolchains/preconfig/generate/archives.bzl b/third_party/toolchains/preconfig/generate/archives.bzl
index 0850893589b..bafc7d49434 100644
--- a/third_party/toolchains/preconfig/generate/archives.bzl
+++ b/third_party/toolchains/preconfig/generate/archives.bzl
@@ -2,26 +2,12 @@ load("//tensorflow:version_check.bzl", "parse_bazel_version")
 load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
 
 def bazel_toolchains_archive():
-    # Not all bazel versions have set native.bazel_version - if it is not set,
-    # fall back to the more compatible version of the toolchains archive.
-    if native.bazel_version and parse_bazel_version(native.bazel_version) >= parse_bazel_version("0.19"):
-        # This version of the toolchains repo is incompatible with older bazel
-        # versions - we can remove this once TensorFlow drops support for bazel
-        # before 0.19.
-        http_archive(
-            name = "bazel_toolchains",
-            sha256 = "41c48a189be489e2d15dec40e0057ea15b95ee5b39cc2a7e6cf663e31432c75e",
-            strip_prefix = "bazel-toolchains-3f8c58fe530fedc446de04673bc1e32985887dea",
-            urls = [
-                "https://github.com/nlopezgi/bazel-toolchains/archive/3f8c58fe530fedc446de04673bc1e32985887dea.tar.gz",
-            ],
-        )
-    else:
-        http_archive(
-            name = "bazel_toolchains",
-            sha256 = "15b5858b1b5541ec44df31b94c3b8672815b31d71215a98398761ea9f4c4eedb",
-            strip_prefix = "bazel-toolchains-6200b238c9c2d137c0d9a7262c80cc71d98e692b",
-            urls = [
-                "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-toolchains/archive/6200b238c9c2d137c0d9a7262c80cc71d98e692b.tar.gz",
-            ],
-        )
+    http_archive(
+      name = "bazel_toolchains",
+      sha256 = "ee854b5de299138c1f4a2edb5573d22b21d975acfc7aa938f36d30b49ef97498",
+      strip_prefix = "bazel-toolchains-37419a124bdb9af2fec5b99a973d359b6b899b61",
+      urls = [
+        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-toolchains/archive/37419a124bdb9af2fec5b99a973d359b6b899b61.tar.gz",
+        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-toolchains/archive/37419a124bdb9af2fec5b99a973d359b6b899b61.tar.gz",
+      ],
+    )