diff --git a/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsematrix.jl b/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsematrix.jl
index 1832edfea1c22..1ce5b41ce5356 100644
--- a/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsematrix.jl
+++ b/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsematrix.jl
@@ -1974,8 +1974,8 @@ function getindex_cols(A::SparseMatrixCSC{Tv,Ti}, J::AbstractVector) where {Tv,T
     return SparseMatrixCSC(m, nJ, colptrS, rowvalS, nzvalS)
 end
 
-getindex_traverse_col(::AbstractUnitRange, lo::Int, hi::Int) = lo:hi
-getindex_traverse_col(I::StepRange, lo::Int, hi::Int) = step(I) > 0 ? (lo:1:hi) : (hi:-1:lo)
+getindex_traverse_col(::AbstractUnitRange, lo::Integer, hi::Integer) = lo:hi
+getindex_traverse_col(I::StepRange, lo::Integer, hi::Integer) = step(I) > 0 ? (lo:1:hi) : (hi:-1:lo)
 
 function getindex(A::SparseMatrixCSC{Tv,Ti}, I::AbstractRange, J::AbstractVector) where {Tv,Ti<:Integer}
     @assert !has_offset_axes(A, I, J)
diff --git a/stdlib/SparseArrays/test/sparse.jl b/stdlib/SparseArrays/test/sparse.jl
index c4f5e00fd28de..c46ab90c349b7 100644
--- a/stdlib/SparseArrays/test/sparse.jl
+++ b/stdlib/SparseArrays/test/sparse.jl
@@ -713,6 +713,8 @@ end
 
         @test ss116[:,:] == copy(ss116)
 
+        @test convert(SparseMatrixCSC{Float32,Int32}, sd116)[2:5,:] == convert(SparseMatrixCSC{Float32,Int32}, sd116[2:5,:])
+
         # range indexing
         @test Array(ss116[i,:]) == aa116[i,:]
         @test Array(ss116[:,j]) == aa116[:,j]