---
type: "Bill"
title: "No Monetary Bail For Certain Low-level Offenses"
description: "Defendant pretrial release - no monetary bond for low level offenses. Under current law, the court is required to release a person charged with a class 3 misdemeanor, petty offense, or unclassified offense on a personal recognizance bond unless certain conditions exist. The act removes petty offenses from that requirement. The act prohibits a court from imposing a monetary condition of release for a defendant charged with a traffic offense, petty offense, or comparable municipal offense, except for a traffic offense involving death or bodily injury, eluding a police officer, circumventing an interlock device, or a municipal offense with substantially similar elements to a state misdemeanor offense. The act does not prohibit a defendant's release based on a pretrial policy that includes monetary conditions if the defendant is informed that he or she would be released without monetary conditions if he or she waits for a bond hearing. The act does not prohibit issuance of a warrant with monetary conditions of bond for a defendant who fails to appear in court as required or who violates a condition of release.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1225"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1225 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leslie Herod", "Matt Soper", "Paul Lundeen", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76cf7107-6298-4aad-8d4d-819e9b002d5c"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1225"
source_hash: "761c2fd8ffd5baf277afeac025d07832a470d2dcaa2db4c4648810131a7fd212"
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 19-1225 (2019A) — No Monetary Bail For Certain Low-level Offenses

Defendant pretrial release - no monetary bond for low level offenses. Under current law, the court is required to release a person charged with a class 3 misdemeanor, petty offense, or unclassified offense on a personal recognizance bond unless certain conditions exist. The act removes petty offenses from that requirement. The act prohibits a court from imposing a monetary condition of release for a defendant charged with a traffic offense, petty offense, or comparable municipal offense, except for a traffic offense involving death or bodily injury, eluding a police officer, circumventing an interlock device, or a municipal offense with substantially similar elements to a state misdemeanor offense. The act does not prohibit a defendant's release based on a pretrial policy that includes monetary conditions if the defendant is informed that he or she would be released without monetary conditions if he or she waits for a bond hearing. The act does not prohibit issuance of a warrant with monetary conditions of bond for a defendant who fails to appear in court as required or who violates a condition of release.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## 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_hb1225_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/21/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1225_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1225_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1225_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1225jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1225_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1225_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1225_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1225_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-08T07:00:00+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/76cf7107-6298-4aad-8d4d-819e9b002d5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).