---
type: "Bill"
title: "Remedy For Improper Guilty Pleas"
description: "The act finds that some criminal defendants were not effectively advised of immigration consequences to a guilty plea, and therefore, these defendants did not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily enter a guilty plea. The act authorizes these persons to petition the court for an order vacating the guilty plea."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-103"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-103 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Gonzales", "Kerry Tipper"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-01T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc7621a2-e5bf-4c08-badc-0c24d5639ed9"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-103"
source_hash: "75f21d0bb1c1c1fb01db1ec489f9f84dc87d75520cc818d1aa1c5fb3d0ec20b6"
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 22-103 (2022A) — Remedy For Improper Guilty Pleas

The act finds that some criminal defendants were not effectively advised of immigration consequences to a guilty plea, and therefore, these defendants did not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily enter a guilty plea. The act authorizes these persons to petition the court for an order vacating the guilty plea.

## 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/2022a_sb103_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_103_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_103_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_103_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_103_s_jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_103_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_103_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_103_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_103_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **40–25** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Kerry Tipper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-01T07:00:00+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/bc7621a2-e5bf-4c08-badc-0c24d5639ed9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).