| Bill # | Short Title | Bill Summary |
| HB24-1054 | Jail Standards Commission Recommendations | There is currently a jail standards oversight committee and commission tasked with developing jail standards in Colorado. The oversight committee and commission are set to repeal on July 1, 2024. The bill repeals the commission and extends the oversight committee until September 1, 2033. Each county jail shall comply with the standards adopted by the oversight committee beginning July 1, 2026. |
| HB24-1072 | Protection of Victims of Sexual Offenses | Under current law, certain evidence of a victim’s or witness’s prior or subsequent sexual conduct is presumed irrelevant, but there is an exception for evidence of the victim’s or witness’s prior or subsequent sexual conduct with the defendant. The bill eliminates this exception. |
| HB24-1074 | Aggravated Cruelty to Law Enforcement Animals | The bill specifies that a person commits the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals if the person knowingly or recklessly kills or causes serious physical harm resulting in the death of a law enforcement animal or causes serious physical harm to a degree that the law enforcement animal must be decommissioned from active duty for at least 3 months. |
| HB24-1079 | Persons Detained in Jail on Emergency Commitment | Beginning July 1, 2025, the bill prohibits a law enforcement officer or emergency service patrol officer who takes a person juvenile into protective custody from detaining the person juvenile in jail. |
| HB24-1090 | Privacy Protections Criminal Justice Records | The bill sets a deadline of July 1, 2024, for the implementation of the revised records access measures. The bill clarifies that changes in 2023 to the law related to records of child victims and child witnesses apply to records pertaining to offenses committed on or after January 1, 2024. For records pertaining to earlier offenses, the records release provisions that predate the 2023 law changes apply. |
| HB24-1093 | Peace Officer Provisional Certification Requirements | The bill removes the exception for the armed forces, so that being a peace officer in the armed forces satisfies that requirement for a provisional certificate. |
| HB24-1095 | Increasing Protections for Minor Workers | The bill increases penalties for violations of the “Colorado Youth Employment Opportunity Act of 1971” and requires that the penalties be deposited into the wage theft enforcement fund. Entities that violate the act must also pay specified damages to the individual who is aggrieved. The bill eliminates a provision in current law penalizing a person, having legal responsibility for a minor, who knowingly permits the minor to be employed in violation of the act. |
| HB24-1101 | Empower Victims through Access Restorative Justice | The bill makes changes to increase access to restorative justice practices in Colorado. |
| HB24-1103 | Prohibiting Term Excited Delirium | The bill prohibits training for law enforcement personnel, emergency medical service providers, or other first responders from including the term “excited delirium”; except in an emergency medical service provider training the term may be used in teaching the history of the term. |
| HB24-1133 | Criminal Record Sealing & Expungement Changes | The bill clarifies procedures for automatic sealing. The bill allows a hearing related to sealing matters to be conducted remotely. The waiting period for sealing a municipal record without a subsequent conviction is lowered from 3 years to one year and for sealing a municipal record with a single subsequent conviction from 10 years to 3 years. |
| HB24-1135 | Offenses Related to Operating a Vehicle | Under existing law, it is a class A traffic infraction to operate a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial driver’s license, to operate a commercial motor vehicle if the operator is under 21 years of age, or to drive a commercial motor vehicle if the person has more than one driver’s license. The bill makes each a class 1 misdemeanor; except that, if a person presents a valid commercial driver’s license to the court within 30 days, the offense is a class A traffic infraction. The bill creates the offense of unlawful direction to operate a commercial motor vehicle. |
| HB24-1174 | Concealed Carry Permits & Training | Beginning July 1, 2025, the bill requires concealed handgun training classes to be held in person and include instruction regarding: Knowledge and safe handling of firearms and ammunition; Safe storage of firearms and child safety; Safe firearms shooting fundamentals; Federal and state laws pertaining to the lawful purchase, ownership, transportation, use, and possession of firearms; State law pertaining to the use of deadly force for self-defense; and Techniques for avoiding a criminal attack and how to manage a violent confrontation, including conflict resolution and judgmental use of lethal force. |
| HB24-1225 | First Degree Murder Bail & Jury Selection Statute | Under current law, all persons have the right to bail pending disposition of charges, with certain exceptions, including an exception for persons charged with capital offenses. The bill adds an exception for murder in the first degree when proof is evident or presumption is great. Under current law, in capital cases, each side is entitled to 10 peremptory juror challenges, and if there is more than one defendant, each side is entitled to an additional 3 peremptory challenges for every defendant after the first. The bill applies that existing law to cases in which a defendant is charged with murder in the first degree. The bill is contingent on the adoption at the 2024 general election of a state constitutional amendment concerning bail exceptions. |
| HB24-1228 | Corrections Officers Flexible Schedules | Under current law, a corrections officer who works 12 or more hours in a single 24-hour period receives overtime pay for the hours worked in excess of 8.5 hours. The bill creates an exception if the time is part of a corrections officer’s normal shift that is longer than 8.5 hours and is part of a compressed, flexible, or alternative scheduling system. |
| HB24-1241 | Alignment of Petty Property Crime Threshold | Under current law, if a defendant is charged with a traffic offense, a petty offense, or a comparable municipal offense, a court shall not impose a monetary condition of release. Specifically, the provision applies to a comparable municipal offense that is a property crime and reflects a value of less than $50. The bill removes the monetary threshold and instead states that the court cannot impose a monetary condition of release for a comparable municipal offense that would be a petty offense property crime under state law. |
| HB24-1270 | Firearm Liability Insurance Requirement | The bill requires firearm owners to maintain a liability insurance policy that covers losses or damages to a person, other than the policyholder, who is injured on the insured property as a result of any accidental or unintentional discharge of the firearm. Failure to maintain a firearm liability insurance policy is a civil infraction. |
| HB24-1284 | Pretrial Release for Repeat Violent Offenses | The bill prohibits a court, without the consent of the district attorney, from releasing a person on any unsecured personal recognizance bond if the person is accused of committing a crime of violence and the court finds probable cause to believe that the person has committed the offense, and: The person has a record of conviction for a crime of violence within the prior 2 years; or There are at least 2 pending criminal charges against the person that allege that the person committed a crime of violence and the court finds probable cause to believe that the person has committed the prior alleged offenses. |
| HB24-1292 | Prohibit Certain Weapons Used in Mass Shootings | The bill defines the term “assault weapon” and prohibits a person from manufacturing, importing, purchasing, selling, offering to sell, or transferring ownership of an assault weapon. The bill further prohibits a person from possessing a rapid-fire trigger activator. |
| HB24-1310 | School Safety Measures | The bill permits a school district, charter school, or board of cooperative services (local education provider) to employ or retain by contract a person as a school security officer only if: The local education provider has a policy that governs security officers’ engagement with students; The person completes school security officer or school resource officer training; and The person undergoes a background check and a psychological evaluation. |
| HB24-1345 | Sunset Human Trafficking Council | Sunset Process – House Judiciary Committee. The bill implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review of the human trafficking council by continuing the council indefinitely. |
| HB24-1348 | Secure Firearm Storage in a Vehicle | The bill prohibits knowingly leaving a firearm in an unattended vehicle unless the firearm is stored in a locked hard-sided container that is not left in plain view or that is in the locked trunk of the vehicle. |
| HB24-1353 | Firearms Dealer Requirements & Permit | The bill requires a firearms dealer to obtain a state firearms dealer permit in order to engage in the business of dealing in firearms in Colorado. |
| HCR24-1002 | Constitutional Bail Exception First Degree Murder | The constitution guarantees all persons the right to bail pending disposition of charges, with exceptions for capital offenses and crimes of violence under certain circumstances. The concurrent resolution amends the Colorado constitution to add an exception for the offense of murder in the first degree when proof is evident or presumption is great. |
| SB24-003 | Colorado Bureau of Investigation Authority to Investigate Firearms Crimes | The bill authorizes the Colorado bureau of investigation to investigate illegal activity involving firearms statewide. |
| SB24-006 | Pretrial Diversion Programs | The bill requires a district attorney’s office, or the office’s designee, to consider the use of a juvenile diversion program to prevent a juvenile who demonstrates behaviors or symptoms consistent with an intellectual and developmental disability, a mental or behavioral health issue, or a lack of mental capacity from further involvement in formal delinquency proceedings. |
| SB24-011 | Online-Facilitated Misconduct & Remote Tracking | The bill requires an online dating service to have a safety policy that includes certain elements. It is a deceptive trade practice if a service does not have a compliant safety policy. |
| SB24-027 | Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Process Study | The bill requires the division of criminal justice in the department of public safety to conduct a study to examine how individuals proceed through the various stages of criminal and juvenile justice proceedings, including sentences and alternative sentencing programs. |
| SB24-029 | Study Metrics to Measure Criminal Justice System Success | The bill creates the alternative metrics to measure criminal justice system performance working group. |
| SB24-030 | Recidivism Definition Working Group | The bill requires the division of criminal justice in the department of public safety to convene a working group to develop a definition of “recidivism” to be used by each state entity that collects data or reports on recidivism, in any report issued by the entity. |
| SB24-035 | Strengthening Enforcement of Human Trafficking | The bill adds human trafficking of an adult or a minor for the purpose of involuntary servitude and human trafficking of an adult or a minor for sexual servitude to the list of as per se crimes of violence that are subject to enhanced sentencing. |
| SB24-090 | Possess Identification While Driving | The bill allows a driver who is not in possession of the person’s physical driver’s license or permit to possess and present a digital license or permit instead. |
| SB24-107 | Weapons Possession Previous Offender Add Crimes | The bill adds felonies for drug manufacture, dispensation, sale, and distribution; drug possession with intent to manufacture, dispense, sell, and distribute; and first and second degree motor vehicle theft, to the list of convictions that prohibit a person from possessing a firearm. |
| SB24-108 | Prohibit Unauthorized Use Public Safety Radio | The bill prohibits a person from knowingly affiliating with a public safety radio network without authorization from the network’s authorizing entity. |
| SB24-118 | Indeterminate Sex Offender Sentencing | The bill eliminates indeterminate prison sentences except for Colorado Jessica’s Law convictions and imposes mandatory minimum determinate sentences with a requirement to serve 75% of the sentence before parole eligibility and an indeterminate term of parole. |
| SB24-120 | Updates to the Crime Victim Compensation Act | The bill makes the following updates to the “Crime Victim Compensation Act” (act): Changes verbiage concerning an award of compensation to approval of compensation for consistency with how crime victim compensation programs operate; Revises language to be gender neutral; Changes the terminology for court administrator to court executive to reflect the accurate position title as changed by the state court administrator’s office; Includes state offenses specified in the “Victim Rights Act” under the definition of compensable crime; Includes as property damage expenses incurred for a motor vehicle determined by law enforcement to be where a compensable crime was committed; Modifies the requirement to notify appropriate law enforcement officials to be eligible to receive compensation under the act by removing the 72-hour requirement. |
| SB24-131 | Prohibiting Carrying Firearms in Sensitive Spaces | The bill prohibits a person from carrying a firearm, both openly and concealed, in public locations specified in the bill. |
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