---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Sex Assault Pattern Offense Place Of Trial"
description: "In current law, several sex-assault-on-a-child crimes are designated 'pattern' offenses, meaning that the defendant has a pattern of sexually assaulting the same child repeatedly. When such assaults occur in more than one jurisdiction, the district attorney in each such jurisdiction must prosecute a case for the incident that occurred in his or her jurisdiction. The bill allows a prosecutor to charge and bring a pattern-offense case for all such assaults in any jurisdiction where one of the acts occurred. The bill allows the prosecution of a defendant charged with sex-assault-on-a-child pattern offense or sex-assault-on-a-child-in-a-position-of-trust pattern offense to be tried:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2017A"
identifier: "HB 17-1109"
citation: "Colorado HB 17-1109 (2017A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "John Cooke", "Rhonda Fields", "Terri Carver"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94da7ec3-25ee-4438-9f31-c00ed9eb56a5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1109"
source_hash: "783717860c84b390360ef4bc170542a6afb7c15c3f576b2129a77ac041ecbde5"
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 HB 17-1109 (2017A) — Child Sex Assault Pattern Offense Place Of Trial

In current law, several sex-assault-on-a-child crimes are designated 'pattern' offenses, meaning that the defendant has a pattern of sexually assaulting the same child repeatedly. When such assaults occur in more than one jurisdiction, the district attorney in each such jurisdiction must prosecute a case for the incident that occurred in his or her jurisdiction. The bill allows a prosecutor to charge and bring a pattern-offense case for all such assaults in any jurisdiction where one of the acts occurred. The bill allows the prosecution of a defendant charged with sex-assault-on-a-child pattern offense or sex-assault-on-a-child-in-a-position-of-trust pattern offense to be tried:

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment L.001** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/CLICS/CLICS2017A/commsumm.nsf/0/e553ddc9bcddfe0a872580d500712d69/%24FILE/17HouseJud0228AttachC.pdf)
2. **Amendment L.005** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/CLICS/CLICS2017A/commsumm.nsf/0/e553ddc9bcddfe0a872580d500712d69/%24FILE/17HouseJud0228AttachB.pdf)
3. **Amendment L.006** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/CLICS/CLICS2017A/commsumm.nsf/0/e553ddc9bcddfe0a872580d500712d69/%24FILE/17HouseJud0228AttachA.pdf)
4. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017a/bills/cr/2017A_HB1109_S_JUD_001.pdf)
5. **Engrossed (03/03/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109_eng.pdf)
6. **Final Act (03/29/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109_enr.pdf)
7. **Introduced (01/20/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109_01.pdf)
8. **PA1 (03/01/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109jud_01.pdf)
9. **Reengrossed (03/06/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109_ren.pdf)
10. **Rerevised (03/27/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109_rer.pdf)
11. **Revised (03/23/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109_rev.pdf)
12. **Signed Act (04/04/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1109_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 17-1109, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 11-0. — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt amendment L.006 (Attachment A). The motion passed without objection. — **0–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt amendment L.005 (Attachment B). The motion failed on a vote of 5-6. — **5–6** (fail) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1109 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment C). The motion passed on a vote of 10-1. — **10–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- John Cooke — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
- Terri Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2017-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2017-01-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - 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/94da7ec3-25ee-4438-9f31-c00ed9eb56a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).