---
type: "Bill"
title: "Court Facility Dog During Witness Testimony"
description: "Court facility dog - requirements - jury instruction. The act allows a court, upon motion of a party or upon its own motion, to allow a witness to testify during criminal proceedings while a court facility dog is in the courtroom if certain conditions are satisfied."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1220"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1220 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Fields", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a55e5777-a8d5-4a4c-9ef4-74538acbbb7c"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1220"
source_hash: "75eeffa2c3dd8b442f4ccf4eb0f976367122b1b0530893e06647f41321f08a3e"
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 19-1220 (2019A) — Court Facility Dog During Witness Testimony

Court facility dog - requirements - jury instruction. The act allows a court, upon motion of a party or upon its own motion, to allow a witness to testify during criminal proceedings while a court facility dog is in the courtroom if certain conditions are satisfied.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1220_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1220_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1220_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1220_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1220jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/20/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1220_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1220_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1220_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1220_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **63–1** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **63–1** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **30–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05T07:00:00+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/a55e5777-a8d5-4a4c-9ef4-74538acbbb7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).