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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Failure to Appear Charges in Municipal Court"
+description: "The act prohibits a person's failure to appear from forming the basis of a municipal criminal charge against the person."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2025A"
+identifier: "SB 25-062"
+citation: "Colorado SB 25-062 (2025A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lindsay Gilchrist", "Michael Carter", "Mike Weissman", "Nick Hinrichsen"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-21T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e84f0e0-aad1-44a0-8d0c-0ccd49f577fd"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-062"
+source_hash: "8bd886a70da0143f47405bc950c68d46df05084b28e1a4c47d34420c2417b13b"
+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 25-062 (2025A) — Failure to Appear Charges in Municipal Court
+
+The act prohibits a person's failure to appear from forming the basis of a municipal criminal charge against the person.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_sb062_h_jud_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (02/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (04/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (01/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (02/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_s_jud_01.pdf)
+6. **Reengrossed (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_ren.pdf)
+7. **Rerevised (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_rer.pdf)
+8. **Revised (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_rev.pdf)
+9. **Signed Act (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_062_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **22–11** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **21–11** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **40–21** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lindsay Gilchrist — primary (person)
+- Michael Carter — primary (person)
+- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
+- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
+- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
+- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
+- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
+- L. García — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
+- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
+- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e84f0e0-aad1-44a0-8d0c-0ccd49f577fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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